[gaza]

Just hAD A CUSTOMER PHONE ME UP,they cancelled cause "IVE" scratched their glass on a window,done them 4 times from taking over from someone else.They said they had just noticed it,maybe been done before I took over the round as their is no way a  wfp can scratch the glass.Has anyone else scratched the glass with wfp[just thought I would ask so I can sleep tonight

  gaza

[Jeff Brimble]

Sleep.  They have been there for ages, just with the low sun angle and the winter of dicontent they have noticed them. They could have been there since before they bought the house or had new glass installed. Its usually a painter with sandpaper or a plaster with a trowel. OR............they just couldnt afford it and used it as an excuse. Used to get similar when doing it trad.
No wfp do not scratch glass, quite the opposite if you want to get builders rubble etc off you use copious ammounts of water, with just one exception- pilks self clean which has a coating

[Sir Squeaky]

Not trying start an arguement here, just a genuine question.....

Surely if you're going all round the frames, you're going to pick up dirt and grit on the brush which could scratch the glass?

[DASERVICES]

  There is more chance scratching glass using a squeegie, the brush is that soft
  it is impossible to scratch glass even if you picked up grit.

  The force you would have had to use you would have shattered the glass.

  Main cause of scratching glass I found is the customer's cat !!

  Sleep well Gaza it aint you.

  Doug

[Ian_Giles]

Totally agree, you might chip the paintwork on the frames of windows with ancient and countless coats of paint on them, but there is no way you will scratch the glass.

I understand Roger's querie, but it's quite groundless, any grit you may pick up is constantly flushed away.
With trad it is only a possiblity that you might scratch the glass, and even then, at worst it would be no more than a single tiny scratch, if you pick up grit on your applicator you can feel it instantly.
Ditto with your squeegee.
But with the WFP it is simply no going to happen...no way.

It is almost always the decorator or the plasterers who have done the rendering...or clumsy brickies who plaster the glass in compo!

Ian

[rugby]

customer phoned me a few days ago complaining that i had badly scratched his living room window,big window too,i thought this is going to cost me,but when i had a look i could see hundreds of  deep scratches all close together in a line,as the bristles on my vikan brush are spaced quite far apart i knew it was imposible for me to have done it,told customer that even if i had picked a bit of grit it would only leave one small scratch before being washed away, not hundreds of scratches together, must be sandpaper,wfp no way.funny thing is customer still wants me to clean his windows,so was he just trying it on ?seed of doubt is in my mind

[windows_chepstow]

I've scratched a window with my water fed POLE.

I had some stubborn bird poo; welded to the glass; as rather than wait for the pure water to soften it, I thought I'd turn my alluminium Unger pole around and use the bottom of the pole to scrape the bird poo away.

Result scratched glass (it was only minor though).

I've also scratched my car windscreen getting frost off it using just an Unger squeegie handle (no channel).

I know, I know, I'm a thick-Geordie eejit.

[Jeff Brimble]

Hmm... we all learn by making mistakes. When trad I used to use an old fashioned copper penny to scrape muck off- for years . Nobody told mewhen  they swapped to really cheap metal (valuless) and the glass scratched.