I watched a newbie the other day, he'd taken advice from this forum & window tools forum & to say the least, he was completely wasting his time. both in his technique & his equipment. I give him some honest advice, i know it will take time for any newbie but what he was doing was absolutley laughable to say the least.
Hi Mac, thanks for your advice. What was he doing wrong?
Hi sheepmeister
To be honest he was doing many things a new wfp'er might do, it was not his fault, like i say, it takes a lot of time, effort & trial & error with wfp, it'd take me all night to try & explain. The best tool you can have is knowlage & understanding of exactly what is going on, wfp will clean any glass perfectly every time, no doubt on that, so when it leaves a mark/run/spot whatever, you need to know why & decide how & where it's come from. it's very, very rare for it to be the water purity & is usualy from the top frame.
IMO, there are more top frames that are troublsome to clean than not. All water drips downwards wether it's clean or not. You seem to have a good understanding already of what i'm talking about, just don't think that you MUST clean the top frame or any of the frame, you dont. when a window doesn't come up clean, work out why, then you'll be able to correct the problem & fine-tune your technique.
As for his equipment (sold by a well known supplier).
18ft f/glass pole, he couldn't reach these particular top windows with both hands on the pole. (should've been 24ft).
oval vikan, most of his work is old sash windows, oval's wont cut into the top corners of the bottom section good enough. (should've been rectangular).
No goosneck, not even an angle adaptor on the end of his pole, these houses have 8" deep stone sills. he couldn't get to the bottom of the window so he was in the middle of the road, on his tip-toes, one handed trying to get the bottom of the glass.(absolutley disgraceful of the supplier, should be shot on sight).
tony