Hi. Complete rookie here, just adding window cleaning to my services for overall yard and home maintenance. I’m getting a small trail to the top side when fanning with my 12" squeegee. I’ve adjusted the rubber to sit centered as that was my first thought, but also wondering how much overhang there should be from the channel? Currently I have it centered with about 1/4" past.
Rubber is basically new, have only run it though 3 small homes and really just the interiors, and the smaller windows as the 18" gets the bulk of the exterior and not having any issues with that one. Running the 12" on the interior as I find it easier to control any drips.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Personally I think a 1/4” is a bit much, maybe more like 1/8” I’ve never measured my overhang just eyeball it. Also be sure that when your pulling your squeegee, the upper edge should be leading. (Pulling from left to right, the upper edge should be tilted to the right)
Use the search bar in the forum, look under industry videos, you’ll find some good instructional vids here. Practice makes perfect, spend some time on your home windows.
And welcome to the group man!
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Thanks, I’ll try trimming it back a bit. I’m sure my wife thinks I’m crazy as I’ve done the living room windows every day a few times over the last week. I’ve found that in flipping from fanning to the right, back to the left (I’m right handed) that it happens the most. I’ve caught myself a few times with having the squeegee vertical instead of leading the top edge. I’ll try to slow it down a bit more to make sure it is leading.
So happy to have this resource available.
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Trimmed to about 1/8” past the channel and it helped out a lot. Practiced on my living room windows inside and out today for a while. I needed to slow it down a bit too and focus on the leading edge. Thanks again for the advice.
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Keeping the leading edge of your rubber close to the slip will help reduce streaking caused by burnt rubber on dry glass. It’ll also cut down the number of strokes you use to fan a window out. Lot of people fan glass without paying attention to their rubber being dry. Not as big a deal if the glass is cold but it’s sure recipe for streak in sunlight. Same idea if you straight stroke it. Use a smaller squeegee to finish if you don’t have enough slip left to wet the majority of your squeegee rubber. Or use your t-bar to wet just enough to finish. If you use both hands you can wet the window with one hand while you squeegee it off with the other - at the same time.
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