miwindowguy - Satisfying Techniques and Useful Tips
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- čas přidán 24. 02. 2024
- The secret to clean windows isn't in our water, its in our techniques and tricks. Let me share a couple with you!
Here we review the different satisfying channel strokes professional window cleaners may use on your windows. All of them are good for different things, but its fun to mix it up every once in a while! #windowcleaning #oaklandcounty #miwindowguy
I like that bottle solution so you dont have to keep going back to your bucket. Is it just water and soap or just water to keep the scrubber wet?
I'm a rope access window cleaner, we never use steel wool as the frames tend to be sensitive for damage.
If there's any harder spot we use a hard sponge or you can get scrubby mops too. But we're very time sensitive so we only use them on clearly visible spots, never the whole surface.
No backseating, just pointing out other options. If I would do private houses like this one I would also make the job as perfectly as humaly possible, but when you have a lot of windows youre cutting time where you can whitout comprising the results too much.
For sure.
Commercial work is a game of volume. It’s about cranking out glass quickly.
Luckily though a lot of times commercial facades can have spandrel glass that no one can see out of.
Do you guys ever use boar hair brushes or abrasive mops?
3rd and 4th are my most used techniques
When you are doing the mountain style you should tap your squeegee on the glass at the bottom . you do not need to go all the way to the bottom of the glass with your squeegee because you are putting undue stress on your body.. The bottom third can be squeegeed normally.. You could also have a sea sponge or Micro fiber in your left hand to wipe the blade for that bottom third ( my preference ) because with out wiping the blade or tapping the excess water on the blade creates lines and needs more control . Takes a split second to tap or wipe.
You know you’re an old hat when you start looking out for guys wrists and knees and stuff.
You’re right it can really stress the wrist. I get pain here and there.
One thing that CAN help is using a zero degree with your hand. Not so extreme on the pressure when you get to the bottom
Cutting down the mountain! Great content! I do door knocking for Real Estate anyways, so I've been thinking about picking this skill up. Your videos are so inspirational! Ive got 40 year old knees too! 🤣
Any questions, feel free to ask. I have been doing this for 20 years. I love my career, everything about it. At this point I’ve done pretty much every aspect of the trade.
great work! i make mostly s or mountain :-) it was very interesting: on the side pull you first make a line from top to bottom! That makes the side pull very efectiv. i will try this on monday. You explain in a calm way without hurry. Thanks for this great video and i wish you happy days. Greetings from Germany 🙂
A small small technique tip that makes a lot of difference with side pulls.
Do that swipe on the side to clear the lane.
With each pull make sure the rubber is dry, and start a couple millimeters OFF OF THE FRAME. Set the rubber against the glass and pull.
If you try to butt the rubber back against the frame when you pull the rubber will curl and kick off water from the edge of the frame a bit causing you to have to rewind the edge. Maybe I’ll do a technique video on each of these different strokes to show people how I do them
@@miwindowguy thanks for explaining so detailed, very good!
Very interesting! Would you recommend using a magic eraser sponge for bad hard water deposits (and on shower doors) or do they scratch the glass?
Magic erasers (look up melamine sponge for cheaper prices for the same product) usually break apart pretty quickly on any rough surface (including heavily mineral deposited glass).
We usually use magic erasers for silicone removal. That’s where they really shine.
For mineral deposit you’ll always have to be more aggressive. Steel wool or even chemicals are really all you have going for you when it comes to shower glass.
@@miwindowguy Good to know, thank u!
Just started a company last August. Trying to figure out why people still squeegee exterior windows when we have water fed poles? Aren’t WFPs way faster?
Waterfed poles are merely a tool in the tool box. It has a time and it has a place. It is rarely if ever the tool you should reach for during the first time you do a house.
Your goal with that initial trad cleaning is to get the glass as clean as humanly possible, then sell a maintenance contract and few times a year using the waterfed.
You will never succeed in this business without nose to glass skills unless you are prepared to clean the outside only on people’s houses and even then you’ll struggle because if you do WFP only without the prep work, your fighting a losing battle
@@miwindowguy thanks for the great info, as I am a soft washing guy starting out, do you think the softwash is enough to replace a squeegee and get that initial clean before using a WFP?
@@tomhocking5606 there are no shortcuts available.
Just like in pressure washing and soft washing the pole and brush must come out…so must the mop and squeegee, and if you are a soft washing company it’s even MORE important that you use a mop and squeegee
@@miwindowguy Spoken like someone who lives in a bubble or under a rock. I have been in business 11 years. I can tell you that I do MOST every house, even first times, with a WFP. The difference is I use a brush with a bronze wool insert. Never a problem, never sub par results. I can also tell you that steel wool RUSTS as you use it. Meaning that in as little as 30 minutes, it will start to rust. Rust scratches glass.
Yes, squeegee skills are necessary. No, it's NOT necessary to do every first time with squeegees. Your success it not based on skills/tools alone, but your KNOWLEDGE of what tools to use and where, as well as the skills with those tools.
@@jamesw.3491 proper tool for the proper application. Your mileage may vary.
I suspect the popularity of WFP (which I’ve used quite extensively and do appreciate) has nothing at all to do with the results your customers see.
It has to do with it being easier for you and it’s an equalizer between business owners and a high turnover rate.
It allows them to make “window cleaners” with minimal investment in to training.
did you start off door knocking? how did you market/advertise, any tips would help, Thanks!
I started learning the trade at a different company 20 years ago.
Over those years I’ve learned and perfected a craft that I would have never thought would become my passion.
I got good at it, then friends and family started asking. I started from there.
Learn how to do this job well, do a good job for the people who pay you, and it grows from there.
I’m almost completely referrals
a simple clear nice webside, than google ads (the minimum: 2 Euro per day = 60 euro month ), make perfect friedly professionel work...so the clients stay and call again. Now i start my 4. year and i am full booked for the complete year,( no more google ads) you can do it also when you behavior and communication is top professionell with every client.
Here's a pro tip from a master window cleaner, you don't have to steel wool every window. Its a waste of time and you make money when you are fast. Use less soap,
1) Correct. I tell you why I use the steel wool in this case, because these are basement windows that get a fair bit of mineral deposit.
2) I’m plenty fast.
3) Excess soap added strictly for illustration purposes.
20 years of experience. I’ve got this ;)
Plus, if I tell you that day was “new rubber day” then maybe you’ll understand why I was a little soap heavy haha
@@miwindowguy Good job nevertheless. Respect to my fellow window cleaners.
@@vcash1112 it’s all love brotha! I don’t care if I’ve been doing this for 20 years, I’m still LEARNING and I always will be.
Stay humble. I don’t know about you but I’ve had plenty of times in my career where some random new guy will just do something that makes perfect sense that you never once considered.
That’s what I love about what I do. I can always change.
So I tried something I heard about only briefly when I first started.
Docking the corners of your rubber.
Holy smokes what a difference that makes.
I was thinking to myself how a well worn rubber is the best for using in my Zero, and I realized it was because the corners don’t snag when you are hitting the frame from an angle. I then remembered how someone told me about guys clipping the corner of their rubber. Tried it and it worked perfectly.
No “break in” period on new rubber day!
Always learning always a student
Bro nice video.what model camera u use to record?
This was shot on a GoPro Hero 9
@@miwindowguy i see.thank q sir.
Chris you should use gloves when using steel wool or bronze wool !
Why? Never had an issue.
Hell if the aluminum dust on my hands isn’t killing me (it probably is) then steel wool is fine
I'm more fond of the "Z", then the 'mountain'.
Great ASMR content.
Z is a very good method when you are doing team work, one guy wets and the other guys just comes from behind and slays them with an appropriate size channel and the Z.
It’s satisfying to do much less watchz
Hi Chris, how do you wash inside window trimmed in wood? I just got 2 very large houses and the are trimmed out with wood that have a small gap between glass and wood. I worried about soap getting behind them. Thanks
Interesting. Well first of all it sounds like you are dealing with IG units that have somehow come loose from the frame which means they are damaged.
But if you MUST I would just use a pretty well rung out mop, stay off the edges. Then go over the edge with a pad of steel wool. Give the edge a quick run over with a rag, squeegee the rest off.
Make sense?
What is your fav?
Cutting down the mountain is super satisfying to do and you can usually finish off without leaving much water left to detail! It’s especially useful with a pole.
Camera work is driving me nuts.
Can't watch anymore