How often do you change your water?

« **on:** February 01, 2004, 05:41:29 pm »

Hi everyone

What a great forum!

I am just starting out and have about 30 residential customers sofar, more each week.

My question, do you guys use clean water for each house, or more specifically, how dirty can you let it become before changing?

Also how bubbly should it be using Ecover dish detergent?

Any advice warmly received

Thanks
Mark

« **Reply #1 on:** February 01, 2004, 05:49:03 pm »

i use fairy..and i put about 1/5 of a small bottle..i top the water up when it get low in the bucket and somtiomes top the fairy up..i hope none of my customers read this but somtimes the water is brown

i have been known to use a puddle if im stuck round the back of a house...god im bad

« **Reply #2 on:** February 01, 2004, 05:59:00 pm »

Hi Chartermarque
I change my water at each job for fresh. I use GG4 which tends to go dirty quite quickly

Steve

« **Reply #3 on:** February 01, 2004, 06:18:23 pm »

at everyjob!!

i wish you cleaned my house

« **Reply #4 on:** February 01, 2004, 08:20:18 pm »

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i hope none of my customers read this but somtimes the water is brown
i have been known to use a puddle if im stuck round the back of a house...god im bad

I am glad you dont clean mine

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Steve

« **Reply #5 on:** February 01, 2004, 08:25:46 pm »

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Hi Chartermarque
I change my water at each job for fresh. I use GG4 which tends to go dirty quite quickly

Steve

Steve,
Is that on residential work or commercial?

Gerry.

« **Reply #6 on:** February 01, 2004, 08:29:26 pm »

Start the week with 5ltr clean water change it friday if it needs it or not

No really 5 ltr clean water every morning , the same in the afternoon

« **Reply #7 on:** February 01, 2004, 08:37:12 pm »

Hi Gerry
On domestic i would change the water at each job and on commercial obviously it depends on how big the job is. The domestic jobs i tend to do are normally big jobs though

Steve

« **Reply #8 on:** February 02, 2004, 05:45:55 pm »

Hi chartermarque!
Generaly I will change my water twice a day but of course that depends on how dirty it is. If your getting round to your work on time and it isn't on a busy main road with all the pollution etc then change it at dinner.
However be aware that some people always want you to use fresh water on their windows. If someone offers you fresh water and you have done two or three houses prior to them well it just might be a hint by them for you to change the water!That can be a pain if you feel the water is fine and you've just put in a load of GG4 or Glimmer clean and the customer wants you to chuck it away and use fresh!

« **Reply #9 on:** February 02, 2004, 06:08:00 pm »

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Gerry, I don't use it at all now, I only used it when I had a free sample. I use Fairy.

The main benefits apart from extra cleaning power is the fact that the window stays wetter longer, and you are supposed to get less bleed back on to the glass after squeegeeing, it is not supposed to leave the film on the glass that the dish soap leaves either. When you add the dish soap you get more glide, but I dont suppose the other qualities remain.

When we use a substance in our water it is not to clean the window, it is to make squeegeeing easy, give it glide. I have personally dipped my applicator in a dirty puddle in an emergency, to get that last couple of windows done on a roof for example. These windows were left just as clean as all the rest. It was the remaining dish soap left in my applicator mixed with the dirty water that enabled me to leave these windows clean.

I found gg3 to have the same effect as using water straight out the tap when cleaning regularly cleaned windows. When having to deal with really stubborn stuff on the glass such as smoke on the insides of pubs, I found it to cut through it easier.

What I would recommend to do with it now is mix some up in a spray bottle, and take it with you when needed.

Peter Fogwill

Not just me then

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« **Reply #10 on:** February 02, 2004, 11:08:05 pm »

I use GG3 and change the water every three or four houses.

« **Reply #11 on:** February 02, 2004, 11:12:36 pm »

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However be aware that some people always want you to use fresh water on their windows. If someone offers you fresh water and you have done two or three houses prior to them well it just might be a hint by them for you to change the water!

I've got a customer, an old lady who insists that I don't use the clean water in my container from my car and always fills a bucket up for me. The trouble is that this takes her 5 minutes on a £6 job (I do it cheap for her).
This is a real pain in the neck when you want to get on but I don't have the heart to dump her!

« **Reply #12 on:** February 03, 2004, 12:03:12 am »

Hey Fez!
I bet she thinks the world of you really. Do you get a cup of tea as well cos that can really mess your day up when they want to give you the chapter and verse of everthing thats happened since you last came!!
Where would we be without them?
Probably three streets further on!!

« **Reply #13 on:** February 03, 2004, 02:59:06 pm »

Thanks for all your replies. Lots of you seem to use GG3, which I will try once I have afew more customers (and a bit more cash).

Thanks again
Mark

« **Reply #14 on:** February 03, 2004, 03:02:19 pm »

Hi Mark,

In case you haven't already picked up on it, GG3 is for soft-water areas and GG4 for hard-water. Best to find out first!

« **Reply #15 on:** February 03, 2004, 05:28:14 pm »

we used to change it at lunch time, now we go all day on 1 bucket

thats 2 guys on 1 bucket with 1 Gal in, and 15mm of GG4

at the end of the day, we pour out the mud from the bucket

« **Reply #16 on:** February 03, 2004, 08:44:20 pm »

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Hey Fez!
Do you get a cup of tea as well cos that can really mess your day up

Yep, you guessed it, I do get a cup of tea that's red hot (so I'll stay longer), but what can you do? I'm too bloody soft.

« **Reply #17 on:** February 03, 2004, 08:45:44 pm »

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we used to change it at lunch time, now we go all day on 1 bucket

thats 2 guys on 1 bucket with 1 Gal in, and 15mm of GG4

at the end of the day, we pour out the mud from the bucket

Does anyone look in your bucket? I've had some comment on the lack of bubbles in GG3, so they do notice these things.

« **Reply #18 on:** February 03, 2004, 10:35:03 pm »

used to use a Yellow builders bucket, its a nice BRIGHT YELLOW colour, i thought good for Health and safety reasons,

BUT

people would offer us clean water, so now we use a BLACK bucket

« **Reply #19 on:** February 04, 2004, 08:52:01 pm »

my guys change the water in there buckets four times a day some times more depending on how dirty the windows were also add gg4 for that extra shine

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