Water Fed Poles

tomtucson said:
Thad maybe you could tell me something about it, I'm just a flatworker and I'm not interested in doing windows only or any other windows. I'm thinking that I could spray all the windows first with the powerwasher and then it would only need a little DI?
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Yeah, pre-cleaning with the pw will help a lot.
Then brush them down and rinse with the wfp and pure water. Whether you need a RO/DI or just a DI depends on how high your local TDS is.
 
Tom Cusick; buying a wfp system for ground floor windows is not very practical unless you commonly deal with alot of cutups. I swear that you can go faster with a swivel 0 degree squeegee with special angle adapters or wagtail type squeegees with short extension poles. There is too much time wasted dealing with dragging hose, hooking up to water, checking tds, checking to see how they dried out, scraping or scrubbing, etc.

We have several accounts were we are cleaning ground floor windows for days on days, one of them takes two guys 22 days because the complex is so large. We have tried both wfp and traditional and we always stick with traditional methods on ground floor windows unless they are cutup windows. So yeah, get the system, but don't splurge on anything too fancy. It's just another tool that's nice to have when you need it.

We use our waterfed pole for cleaning so much more than glass cleaning though. We just finished washing all the scoreboards at Angel Stadium today. We use them a lot for scrubbing gutters, washing awnings and lots of other stuff. It's a great tool, but like i already said, you will find it a pretty ineffective at cleaning ground floor windows any faster than traditional methods.
http://www.youtube.com/user/kcpowerclean?feature=mhw4#p/a/u/0/L2uBOv9SqOo
 
I don't know what most of what your talking about is. I was thinking with a prespray while washing the sidewalks I could get away with a quick splash of di. Maybe a dolly with a tank and no hose, make the water at home and fill the truck at night. Off to work now I will see if I can catch you for a few questions if you don't mind.
 
tomtucson said:
I don't know what most of what your talking about is. I was thinking with a prespray while washing the sidewalks I could get away with a quick splash of di. Maybe a dolly with a tank and no hose, make the water at home and fill the truck at night. Off to work now I will see if I can catch you for a few questions if you don't mind.
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Cleaning windows with pure water at night is somewhat tough. The problem is the water will not evaporate right away, in fact, it could take hours depending on the humidity. Any dust that's in the air, or pollution from a busy nearby road, will be collected in those water droplets on the glass. When the water drys you'll have spots from that dust or pollution. When you're working in the day, the glass drys pretty fast due to the sun and it eliminates this problem.

Typically too, cleaning with pure water requires a scrub with a brush. If you've rinsed the glass off with your PW, it may not require much of a scrub, but I don't think just a quick spray of DI will leave you with great results. You could get a 4 foot WFP with a backpack system like this:

http://shopwindowcleaningresource.c...ack-sysytem/rhg-backpack-delivery-system.html

That would be ideal for your situation. But again, at night, you may get mixed results. Maybe with the different climate in AZ you would be OK tho.
 
Thanks Micah, well theres one yes -Thad, one no - Kris, and one maybe. Since I don't have any skills with "swivel 0 degree squeegee with special angle adapters or wagtail type squeegees with short extension poles" and the pur water sounds like fun I think I'll see how a 15 gal dolly that I can roll down the sidewalk works. I do want to learn some of those moves though, backside squeegee to fakie, stuff like that.
 
I clean windows almost everyday. I have the WFP set up and its great for certian applications like residential, 2 story stuff. But for store fronts a squeege is by far easier and faster.
Get a 14'' squeege, put a towel on your finger to wipe a dry line at the top of the window.Place your squeege on the 1'' strip of dry glass pull down.Wipe blade repeat. After that its pratice makes perfect and get a bigger squeege.
So one more vote on the WFP is great but for store fronts mostly at night, not so much. Feel free to call me
 
tomtucson said:
Thanks Micah, well theres one yes -Thad, one no - Kris, and one maybe.
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I'm changing my vote. I missed the part where you work at night.
Get a 24 inch or 36 inch widebody channel squeegee and do straight pulls if you don't want to get fancy.
 
joshuabcrutcher said:
That was before we spoke!!! Appreciate your help once again... You still gonna recommend to others on here to go after windows????
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I was asked a couple of weeks ago to mod a window cleaning forum again but it hasn't happened yet.
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If its not a window club secret, what is "a swivel 0 degree squeegee with special angle adapters or wagtail type squeegees" and a "widebody channel squeegee" ?

My power washer fantasy is that I rinse the windows at 9 gpm thoroughly and then just spritz them with di - what kind of results might I expect with that?
 
joshuabcrutcher said:
What is high/low on the TDS meter? Where do I need to be for quality windows?
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Basically your tds (total dissolved solids) - needs to be below 10 to get spot free results. The ideal # to be at is 0.

The basica rule of thumb is if you have a tds reading of 0 - 100 you can get by with a DI tank to clean the glass.

Anything 100+ its best to get a multi stage purification unit.
 
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