Has anybody got the Vikan EasyShine Kit? I have a new weekly job that i hope to 'maintain' the tops and blade the bottoms. This kit looks pretty good but iv seen very similar for like £10 elsewhere. Is the price worth it and does it do a decent job? thanks!
Well I bought one yesterday as I have several jobs where it might make my life easier if it works OK. I won't be giving it its first workout until next Thursday though. Hope it works.
How did you get on with the kit? Rob
Hi Rob.
Mixed results for first attempt but I know what to do to improve it.
The first job I used it on was the interior of a shop that is hard to access. I used to get behind the displays and use a Unger trad pole for the 18" I couldn't reach and hand trad it for lower. Unfortunately, they put glass shelves where I needed to stand and this meant I had no room to maneouvre a trad pole - hence the Easyshine kit. In the shop, it worked a treat. I used only a little water and used the Easyshine kit on the end of a Ionic 2x2' ground floor pole. I was very uncertain at first but being indoors, it dried very quickly. It was a really nice job but it looked awful until it dried.
I used it again later that day for the insides of a doctor's surgery. This time I just used it with a pad in my hand as I wanted to experiment with it. I went all over the insides with it and checked at the end. The first third of the windows were fine. Gradually, as I retraced my steps, the quality deteriorated. I went over the last two thirds again. No problem as I was experimenting anyway. So the stuff I read about changing the Easyshine pads frequently was re-inforced. After I went over the last two thirds of the job again it was fine. I used two more pads though. So using clean pads is clearly very important.
I would say that the product is worth having. I needed to learn how far I could push a pad and now I have experienced it, future cleans should be much easier.