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Ladders

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Egged windows
« on: October 31, 2006, 07:41:11 pm »
Get ready to remove plenty of eggs from windows tomorrow, from the darling little TRICK OR TREATERS brigade.

How does wfp cope with this,i have found it very hard to remove by trad methods in the past.

Will it not glue up the brush head and ruin it.?

Cheers Jeff.
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ronaldo

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Re: Egged windows
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2006, 07:45:06 pm »
From my experience of the phantom egg thrower wfp is useless, i had a customer who kept getting targeted by these idiots and i had to keep getting my ladders off to sort out their mess as wfp wouldnt even touch it.
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windows_chepstow

Re: Egged windows
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2006, 07:46:01 pm »
I think a Thermopure will remove it, however my WFP system won't touch it.

It's ladders time, if they've hit an upstairs window.
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D woods

Re: Egged windows
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2006, 08:02:07 pm »
Its no yolk when this happens,
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Ian_Giles

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Re: Egged windows
« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2006, 08:06:04 pm »
I'm sticking a scrubbing brush un my pole, taking a spare bucket with me, then filling it up with very soapy water and scrubbing the offending egg goo by dipping brush into the water.
WFP will rinse it without touching the glass.
Those bloody Americans have a lot to answer for >:(
Our little scumbags copy it and use it as an excuse for anti-social behaviour >:( >:(
The sooner yo ucan get to it the better though...the longer it has to set, the harder it is to get off :-\


Ian
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windows_chepstow

Re: Egged windows
« Reply #5 on: October 31, 2006, 08:10:03 pm »
Quote from: Ian_Giles on October 31, 2006, 08:06:04 pm
Those bloody Americans have a lot to answer for >:(

Ian

I fully agree.  Global warming, two nuclear bombs on Japan, genital warts and halloween trick 'n' treating!
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craig jwc

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Re: Egged windows
« Reply #6 on: October 31, 2006, 08:10:57 pm »
My back windows got eggs thrown at them Sunday night.

Buggers started early by me.

Cleaned it off yesterday evening with my wfp and just had to give it a good soaking and break it up with the edge of the brush.

I didn't take that much longer but it was a pain in the butt.

The only hard bit to get off was the egg on the frame.

Craig
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P @ F

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Re: Egged windows
« Reply #7 on: October 31, 2006, 08:12:26 pm »
IT WAS ME , PAYBACK FOR THOSE DODGEY E MAILS !   ;D

 rICH   p @ f
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EasyClean

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Re: Egged windows
« Reply #8 on: October 31, 2006, 08:23:56 pm »
Use a 'Tucker' pole with plenty of detergent tablets and hot water and it comes off a 'treat' not a 'trick'!
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Ladders

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Re: Egged windows
« Reply #9 on: October 31, 2006, 08:42:33 pm »
It's ladders time, if they've hit an upstairs window.
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Tosh ime not coming round to remove your eggs ;D
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pjulk

Re: Egged windows
« Reply #10 on: October 31, 2006, 09:49:13 pm »
I tend to soak it a bit with TFR and that does really seem to help.
Leave it 5 minutes and WFP of usually comes off fairly easy.

I tend to use TFR for quite a few things as its brilliant stuff if you leave it to soak a while.

Paul
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M4RK

Re: Egged windows
« Reply #11 on: November 01, 2006, 04:50:07 pm »
With egg, I'd give the window a good soaking. Not by scrubbing with the applicator, because egg makes a mess of the sleeve, but squeeze out the water on the window above where the egg is.
Leave the water to soak into the egg a few seconds, then use a sharp 4" scraper blade.
With that it comes straight off. Then you can finish by giving the remnants a scrubb with the applicator.

Mark
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007 or what

Re: Egged windows
« Reply #12 on: November 01, 2006, 04:53:21 pm »
do you charge extra for removing egg? I've got me flats to do tommorrow and they always get hit  :'( :'( :'(
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steveaqua

Re: Egged windows
« Reply #13 on: November 01, 2006, 04:53:45 pm »
Quote from: Paul Griffin on October 31, 2006, 09:49:13 pm
I tend to soak it a bit with TFR and that does really seem to help.
Leave it 5 minutes and WFP of usually comes off fairly easy.

I tend to use TFR for quite a few things as its brilliant stuff if you leave it to soak a while.

Paul
Got a load left from when we valeted cars and i must admit it has broken down pretty much everything i've used it for on glass. good little tool  ;)
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[GQC] Tim

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Re: Egged windows
« Reply #14 on: November 01, 2006, 10:22:26 pm »
Hm, interesting....still wondering what would be the best way for Traditional?

Went out today, nothing happened to my customers, let's hope the next lot won't have egged windows aswell!  ;D

And btw. what is TFR? :)
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jeff1

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Re: Egged windows
« Reply #15 on: November 01, 2006, 10:24:29 pm »
Quote from: GQC Window Cleaning on November 01, 2006, 10:22:26 pm
Hm, interesting....still wondering what would be the best way for Traditional?

Went out today, nothing happened to my customers, let's hope the next lot won't have egged windows aswell!  ;D

And btw. what is TFR? :)
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GlassJockey

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Re: Egged windows
« Reply #16 on: November 02, 2006, 04:07:28 am »
My very first customer's window was covered in egg.  The egging happened about six months ago and it was totally baked on over the long hot summer we had here in the Pacific Northwest here in the U.S.

I had to use my 5-inch razor blade, lots of warm soapy squeege-off water.  This one window took about an hour.  If the shrub wasn't in the way, I could have done it much faster, but the egg was baked on hard.

BEFORE


AFTER


GlassJockey
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[GQC] Tim

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Re: Egged windows
« Reply #17 on: November 02, 2006, 11:33:48 am »
Quote from: GlassJockey on November 02, 2006, 04:07:28 am
My very first customer's window was covered in egg.  The egging happened about six months ago and it was totally baked on over the long hot summer we had here in the Pacific Northwest here in the U.S.

I had to use my 5-inch razor blade, lots of warm soapy squeege-off water.  This one window took about an hour.  If the shrub wasn't in the way, I could have done it much faster, but the egg was baked on hard.


GlassJockey


Whoa, talking about difficult window for traditional cleaning!  :-\
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JM123

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Re: Egged windows
« Reply #18 on: November 02, 2006, 02:32:29 pm »
Glassjockey, if you don't mind me asking, how much did you charge to clean that one window?
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GlassJockey

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Re: Egged windows
« Reply #19 on: November 02, 2006, 03:00:03 pm »
To be perfectly honest...  I told her that every day I drive by her house I see how bad her window looks.  I told her I was just getting started in the window cleaning business, and since she could be my first customer, I would do the window for FREE.  If she was happy, then send me referrals.

That worked out well, because her mother came over later that day and was absolutely amazed at how great the window looked, and asked if I could come and do all her windows.

This is where it starts for me.  One free job turns into a more (paying jobs).

Just trying to get the ball rolling here.

GlassJockey
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