[pwcleaning]

Hi, how often do you wash your scrim?

I was using mine today but the windows were drying with white lines

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I wash mine every day.

[dave0123]

I wash mine properly every week at the weekend and run it through the tap 2 or 3 times a week, look at it this way the cleaner you keep your scrim the more easy its going to be working and faster if your doing leaded etc.


Dave

[windows_chepstow]

Hi, how often do you wash your scrim?

I was using mine today but the windows were drying with white lines

I think that depends on what you've been doing with them, how dirty they are and how many you use per day.

I WFP 'tops' and squeegie the ground floor stuff, and I can get through a good day's work using two-to-six scrims; depending on how lazy I get looking after them.  I'm generally quite happy to dry them out in the tumble drier or hang 'em on a radiator.

But Wor Lass can get through a whole bag-full (honest; at least ten to fifteen big ones)and she's been window cleaning for four years now!

When I work by myself, I'm generally happy to wash my scrims once per week, but when Wor Lass works; they get washed every day.

How many scrims do you use per day, on average?

[pwcleaning]

just put them in the wash now.

Found it hard work today, the cold didnt help

I use ettore squeegee off and tap water, but i kept getting white lines everywhere

I only got through 2 and i was working 5 hours

[steve5000]

same here  i had white lines,must be all the crap from the wind and rain on the windows

I wash my scrims everynight,then dry them on the radiators
ready for the next day.

[windows_chepstow]

I use ettore squeegee off and tap water, but i kept getting white lines everywhere

From your backposts, I see you've only just recently started window cleaning.

I think you're problem is your squeegie rubber; unless the lines were just at the edges where you scrimmed.

However, when you first start window cleaning, change your rubber every day; turning it around at about mid-day.

That way you'll know that anything left on the window is down to bad technique, rather than dodgy equipment.  As your technique improves; then you'll be to tell the difference between a dodgy rubber or dodgy hand-movements.

I feel a bit nervous about saying the following, because someone might give me a digging (intimating that I'm thick); but in my opinion, it does take a few years to learn how to use a squeegie effectively.

Once you crack the squeegying bit, the amount of time scrimming (otherwise known as 'detailing') will be reduced greaty.

[paul saunders]

I did my own windows the other day using squeege off, I had the white line problem when detailing, I just said to my self "this f***ing stuff is crap". perhapse it is a bit of everyting ie the weather being crap, me being crap, a worn rubber and damn cold.  :

[pwcleaning]

what else should i use instead of squeege off
I will try changing the rubber

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Fairys alright.

[pete albion]

i've been getting lots of white lines and marks since i changed from fairy to gg4, some days its worse then others, i know the weather and salt makes it tough work, but not sure just how good the proper window cleaning solutions really are  

[Sir Squeaky]

How many scrims do you use per day, on average?

One dry one a day, and one to mop up.

Today's wet one gets washed, for dry tomorrow.
Today's dry one is tomorrow's wet one.
If you get my drift...

I've got spares, but I can survive with 2 scrims.

[steve5000]

I use qsol,really thick,thinking of going back to fairy though,not really sure about gg3/gg4,or any of the others,from what i have read none of them seem to be any better than good old fairy

[pete albion]

steve what is qsol, and when you say its a bit thick do you mean it stops the water running like fairy does ?

[brett walker]

I wash my scrims and microfibres everyday after use and boil wash them every so often
I just detail with microfibres i find them much better for detailing than scrims

regards

Brett

[rhys11]

hi there

can you tell me how do you wash your scr :-\im please

i dont know

[Ian_Giles]

Like Squeaks, when I was full time trad I could normally get by on a couple of scrims a day (barring lots of georgian or leaded work that is).

Where washing is concerned all you need do is give them a boil wash when brand new, use any detergent, but don't add softener.
If you have plenty of scrim or microfibre you should only need to wash them once a week, just bundle a load together and throw them in the washing machine on a quick wash.
I've always thrown them in the tumble drier, one advantage being that it also gets rid of a lot of fluff and lint.

Don't put softener in either the washing maching or the drier though, you are adding a chemical to your scrim (microfibre) that may possibly leave line marks behind, you don't want any tpe of contaminants left in the fabric!

You don't need to boil wash microfibre cloths of course, you can use them straight out of the packet.

Ian

[s.hughes]

I go through loads of scrim a day and have been w/c 13 years now, I try and reduce it but its old habits die hard. Oh and by the way I have her rinse it in the w/machine every night and get it dried on the rads.

Steve

[rhys11]

thanks ian

[steve5000]

steve what is qsol, and when you say its a bit thick do you mean it stops the water running like fairy does ?

hi pete,sorry about late reply,qsol is industrial stengh washing up liquid,its thick when you pour it into the bucket,sometimes i end up putting to much in ,as it come out in dolops

regards steve