[d s windowcleaning]

can anyone give me a idea as to why ive been getting streaky windows .
ive been wfp for around 5 1/2 years and up until last week ive never once had this happen , the houses its happend on have been cleaned regular and never had a problem with them .
my water is 000ppm , brush is clean , i rinse well . but 4 houses this week have had streaky windows whats going wrong ?

[bad trippy]

can anyone give me a idea as to why ive been getting streaky windows .
ive been wfp for around 5 1/2 years and up until last week ive never once had this happen , the houses its happend on have been cleaned regular and never had a problem with them .
my water is 000ppm , brush is clean , i rinse well . but 4 houses this week have had streaky windows whats going wrong ?

Are the frames milking?

[Londoner]

You are going to have to define streaky a bit more clearly to get an answer. Milking, run down, spots ? top windows, bottom windows?

[Pope vader]

might be the weather

[combat1]

I cleaned my own windows last week and they were ok afterwards, then the heavy rain came and the next day they were awful, streaky, dirty rain?

[Halfadaylee]

I had a couple complain this week too.
The wind and rain were the corse as it was only the one side of each property
Art

[rosskesava]

There's been so seriously bad storms recently and some very extremely rough seas out in the atlantic and over an incredibly large area. The salt from the sea can get picked up and can get carried hundreds of miles before getting bought back down to earth by the rain.

I live on the coast anyway so streaky windows with wfp isn't that rare but inland, it only happens every so often and the weather in terms of meteorology recently has been more than unusual.

Even if windows are done trad style and dry within seconds, around here when a SW'ly gale has been, the glass can look perfectly clean but go back 10 minutes later and it'll be covered in white lines from the edges of the squeegie blade.

That's my guess anyway.

[Moderator David@stives]

on one of my shops last week, one of my lads must have left over 5 million spots, he was newish to wfp and got caught out by the salty windows

I didnt count them, but bear in mind the shop is 250 metres long.

When i saw them i cringed, but as we clean it every other day, i knew we could correct it soon enough before we got a complaint

[d s windowcleaning]

can anyone give me a idea as to why ive been getting streaky windows .
ive been wfp for around 5 1/2 years and up until last week ive never once had this happen , the houses its happend on have been cleaned regular and never had a problem with them .
my water is 000ppm , brush is clean , i rinse well . but 4 houses this week have had streaky windows whats going wrong ?

Are the frames milking?

no frames not milking

[d s windowcleaning]

You are going to have to define streaky a bit more clearly to get an answer. Milking, run down, spots ? top windows, bottom windows?

its happend on both top and bottom windows , best way for me to explain the streak would be to say if you was to soap a window up and then squeegge off but leave a bit then you would be left with the type of streak thats been happening .

[d s windowcleaning]

might be the weather

weathers been fine all day on the days i cleaned them no strong winds or any rain . the customers have noticed these streak marks on the day of cleaning and let me no the same day .

[richywilts]

maybe a trad cleaner is sabotaging ur work in hope u will lose it i say a trad cleaner coz they would have soapy water to hand but could be any window cleaner possibly have u had any run ins with others bout patches etc

[Dave Willis]

Are you still chucking Isopropanol in your tank? Do you use a holding tank? Are you using a new reel or maybe the brush got contaminated with something. Were the properties cleaned around the same time?

[GB Window Cleaning]

i recon cold weather can make them look streaky trad when blading off but wfp steaky? thats a new one on me!

the only thing i can think of is what salready been suggested really

let us all know what you find out its an interesting topic (for me at least)

george

[matthewprice]

had real problems saturday had a large house to clean gave it a good scrub and a double rinse some of the glass left areas that the dirt had not come off fully ,had to rinse  4 times seemed to do the trick ,can only guess the wind had caused the salt/ dirt to be hard impacted on the glass.hope it rains heavy soon

[matthewprice]

goooood its juststarted raining

[d s windowcleaning]

Are you still chucking Isopropanol in your tank? Do you use a holding tank? Are you using a new reel or maybe the brush got contaminated with something. Were the properties cleaned around the same time?

not got any ipa in my water , yes i use a holding tank but water is 000ppm , no new hose its the same as being used all the time , properties were cleaned all within a few days of each other , brush is allways looked after in the same way cleaned out regular using just pure water .

[d s windowcleaning]

i recon cold weather can make them look streaky trad when blading off but wfp steaky? thats a new one on me!

the only thing i can think of is what salready been suggested really

let us all know what you find out its an interesting topic (for me at least)

george

ive been back to my relations today and re-cleaned them and they were definatley streaky , there was no wind yesterday so cant really think anything was blown on the glass , it was every window on the house that had streak marks on i just cant work out whats gone wrong .
in all the time of being wfp ive never had anything like this happen then i get 4 happen within a week its relly puzzled me as to why .

[Topclean]

U havent washed you van with the brush have you?
We cleaned the van once when the van had not long had wax
Applied and the consequences were streaky windows!!
Just a thought.

[andyM]

Have the windows got vents above? Do you clean the top of the window frame?