Oh dear, to begin with it really is such a steep learning curve, spend several days doing mates houses, family members houses at no charge!
But when you do start out for real then take your time!!
I don't know if you have a brush with 'flocked' bristles or 'single filament' bristles; now although some will disagree, I would personally say the the single filament brushes do not suffer as much of a contanimation problem as the flocked ones. Now I know those that use flocked bristles will not agree with that, so that is only my own opinion.
When you first start out, wash the upstairs frames thoroughly, but beware vented windows!!!!, take your time and stay clear of the vents.
Spend extra time washing and rinsing; move on to the next window and continue.
If a standard house, do all the tops, then do the lower windows in the same fashion.
By now gravity will have had time to work, and the upstairs windows will have began to dry out.
If you have a big enough bucket with you, dip the brushs head into a clean bucket of pure water and work the bristles with your fingers to clean out any possible contanimation of the brush head.
Then start over again on the upstairs windows.
But this time pay attention only to the glass, in particular the very top edge of the glass where in either meets the putty/rubber seals etc.
Try to stay away from the frames.
To rinse; just ease the pressure of the bristles on the glass and draw the brush down in quick light strokes, this helps to speed up the rinsing process. Move quickly across the glass.
Do not worry about the time it takes you or the amount of water you use to begin with.
Practice this technique at home, you WILL get better!
Explain to customers that you will be going over them a couple of times to begin with.
Sometimes yo uwill come across windows that simply will not come up as you would wish, again, sometimes dipping your brush into a weak solution of GG3 or Unger liquid and going over the windows with this will improve the situation, but sometimes not!!
If you have read the thread that windows-chepstow (Tosh) started with regards the Health & safety issues concerning ladders, and the replies from Philip Hanson, it would be reasonable to tell customers that you have no intention of climbing ladders again due to the new regs.
So therefore, though you may go over the lower windows in the traditional method, the upstairs will have to be done with WFP regardless.
If they won't accept that then move on, let someone else take the risk.
Stick with it though, I would say now that I can get even a first time clean virtually spotless first time out, but you have to be patient and realise you have to ride that learning curve!
Regards,
Ian
