[windows_chepstow]

because I just spent £50 on a whole load of Unger rubbers and I thought I'd had a bad batch.

EVERY rubber I tried was sub-standard, left streaks and big 'snail trails'.  From Wednesday onwards, it was like going back in time, as in I was spending more time scrimming than squeegieing.

It was really doing my head it.  I chopped and changed and turned them round to see if I could get a decent edge.  All the while I was forumulating a bad-tempered post to stick up here warning people - don't buy Unger - they're rubbish.

Anyway, wasn't the rubbers at all.  My channel is slightly bent; I must've jammed it in the car door or something, and the rubbers work fine!

DOH!

[Moderator David@stives]

easy mistake to make Tosh.I bet you dont do that again ,thats the thing with W/c ,you never stop learning ,i suffered with that prblem about 4 years ago.so now i am never fooled again by that one.
The same thing can occur when you have dropped your squeegie from a great height.

Dave

[windolene]

Hi,

As I was reading your post I thought straight away he has a bent channel, & low & behold you said it in your next paregraph. bEEN THERE!

Cheers,

Kevin & his vintage window cleaning items.

[Ian_Giles]

I smiled as I read your post, happens to us all does that one

Live and learn eh Tosh?


Regards,

Ian

[s.hughes]

I had the same thing. It took me days to realise it was the channel. It was really hard to see the bend in it but even the slightest gives a bad job.


Steve

[windows_chepstow]

The same thing can occur when you have dropped your squeegie from a great height.

That's how it happened.  I thought I couldn't remember trapping it in the car door!  But I do remember dropping it from the top of my ladder!!

Aye, live and learn.  I wish I posted something Wednesday evening about my 'bad batch of rubbers', then I wouldn't have had a rotten Thursday, Friday and Saturday (I worked today, 11am to 5 pm).

Once I worked out that it was my bent channel; I went to get Wor Lasses squeegie, but she'd taken it out to clean our own windows (which the 'Mad Get' does every week).  I was really cross about that at the time.

So I ended up using a 26" squeegie (I'm guessing the size - a big one) on residential and spraying and scrimming those windows where the big squeegie didn't fit.

It's strange how something so simple can be so frustrating!!!

[brett walker]

Also happened to me a couple of times know what you mean it drives you mad

Rubbers dont seem to last as long as they used to, do like the unger rubbers though but i use the pulex ones these days

Brett.

[rosskesava]

Hi Tosh

You made me smile.

I've been there also.

Cheers