I watched a video where a guy was cleaning houses and gave like a five step approach to cleaning residential windows. He always wipes it down with a rag and a brush to get all the crud of the window, always uses steel wool and always gives a prewash including the entire frame before he ever starts with actually washing the glass window and moving on. Does everyone do this?
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I suppose you mean this video (Series)?:
At my apprenticeship company we usually clean the frames first and then the glass, or presoak the glass first clean the frame and then the glass. All we have and use is a big microfiber, a detail towel, mop, squeegee and a razor blade. No steel wool or abrasive pads or whatever.
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Hey that’s Ralph ! Hes a pretty good guy.
He has a good system there. If a new guy followed this step by step they would walk away with pretty good results. We do something similar. I do believe in abrasive pads (steel wool) but i use a entire peice to have a large cleaning surface.
To each their own.
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This is the stuff we usually use to clean windows:
Pretty much no matter what it is, sometimes scratch free sponges as well, but very rarely.
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There was that video and he has another video where he’s working with another small window.
@Luke, do you guys go through steps like this?
@Luke, I have a connector that goes on your pole like the yellow one you used in the video where you cleaned the new place. I keep the end in my belt pouch and just use the entire thing anytime I need steel wool. I latch the pad onto the connector.
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O I didnt know you had that 3m sander. Lol just brought it up in another reply. Meh I mean kinda …but this is a little much imo. Each window is different. Wet it …if really dirty blade then wool then squeegee. That’s about it.
To each his own! Good tutorial video for newbies!
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