Do you use a blade anytime you’re not doing your route work? Do you automatically use the steel wool anytime you’re doing a first-time clean, doing a house, or anything else? Without looking at the windows and inspecting it for crud do you wool it or do you wait to see if a window needs to be scraped?
I’m asking this because I cleaned a house tonight and it took me a long, long time because the owner didn’t want me to use steel wool on the windows and it was incredible how much crud was on the windows and I wore my arm out trying to scrub every window I went over. I don’t want to do that again and just need some help.
We use steel wool on almost all our jobs, I like how it cleans the glass. It’s a extra step but to me it just looks better. Now if it is a job we do more often it might not be needed. Since we do majority of residential, we use it often, we buy tons of #0000 steel wool. Commercial route work you shouldn’t need it, unless maybe first cleans. I avoid the blade if I can.
Agreed. We only use blades on debris that cant be removed easily with the wool. For example paint overspray, tape, vinyl…old dried up bird droppings. Wool for us at least is great for that thick grime, heavy grease , even silicone.
@Luke, do you use wool every time you do a first-time clean on a new window? Every time you do a house? Or do you just use it if you see it before you wash or do you wash it first then use it after if you can’t get it off with washing the window?