[mark f]

 with old georgian windows with bad oxidised paint is there anyway round it using wfp??

[Ian_Giles]

Flaking paint is not always a problem, but if the paintwork has oxidized badly you will be hard pressed to do a decent job with WFP.
Mild oxidization isn't too bad, but it still won't be perfect.
Thoroughly wash everything, and I mean thoroughly, particularly the paintwork.
Even connect up to ordinary tap water and dip the brush head into your normal window cleaning bucket (providing you have used one of the specialist window cleaning detergents that is) and spend a lot of time washing them this way.
Hopefully you might wash the worst of the oxidized paint off.
you can never get it all off, but the top surface usually comes away freely. wash and rinse with ordinary water.
Once you have done all of the windows, start again with your pure water, making sure of course that all traces of tap water have gone!
This time concentrate only on the glass, don't have the water blasting out to hard.
Be extra careful on the lower sash if any of the windows are georgian and sash!

I doubt it will be perfect, but it might be acceptable.
A long clean for the first time to be sure, but future cleans should be better, and much quicker as you will be cleaning just the glass and making as much effort as possible to avoid the paintwork.

How clean are the insides? if the outsides are as bad as they appear from your post, its usually a good indication that the insides are not cleaned often, so you might also be able to get away quite a bit.

Ian

[jsm]

if none of what Ian says works - get out the dusty squeegy and see if you can still do it  LOL 

Flaking paint is not always a problem, but if the paintwork has oxidized badly you will be hard pressed to do a decent job with WFP.
Mild oxidization isn't too bad, but it still won't be perfect.
Thoroughly wash everything, and I mean thoroughly, particularly the paintwork.
Even connect up to ordinary tap water and dip the brush head into your normal window cleaning bucket (providing you have used one of the specialist window cleaning detergents that is) and spend a lot of time washing them this way.
Hopefully you might wash the worst of the oxidized paint off.
you can never get it all off, but the top surface usually comes away freely. wash and rinse with ordinary water.
Once you have done all of the windows, start again with your pure water, making sure of course that all traces of tap water have gone!
This time concentrate only on the glass, don't have the water blasting out to hard.
Be extra careful on the lower sash if any of the windows are georgian and sash!

I doubt it will be perfect, but it might be acceptable.
A long clean for the first time to be sure, but future cleans should be better, and much quicker as you will be cleaning just the glass and making as much effort as possible to avoid the paintwork.

How clean are the insides? if the outsides are as bad as they appear from your post, its usually a good indication that the insides are not cleaned often, so you might also be able to get away quite a bit.

Ian

[mark f]

most of the windows i do in this area are georgian sash windows. Why take more care on the bottoms?