Got this by e-mail today
anyone out there use the detail free fannning method shown in the video??
Looks like it could be a huge time saver
I think it would take me less time detailing than doing all unnecessary wrist movements over each side. I’m a residential guy so it might work for commercial or storefront work, but in my game is all about details (pun intended), specially when you know the customer is home and might be watching you. I don’t care if they’re watching you or not, but I’m always on the “I’m being watched” mode and it has brought me lots of compliments.
That guy is a dumb ^%$! Stright DUMB #4*!!
Why is he a dumb ^%$?
I bet he has one of those paychecks that most would love to collect
I understand. But cloth to glass leaves dust or whatever you want to call it. You also have to holster your squeegee, grab the cloth , get it situated in your hand and then detail all sides of the window. I bet customers would be even more impressed to see you doing this clothless detailing. My thing is(having never tried it) how well does it work. Some window edges suck up water that NEEDS to be mopped up.
I dont think the guys dumb, he seems to know his trade. Smart guy for creating another cashflow for himself with the training packages
Depending on window seal type, I pre-cut top & one side edge quickly with tip of my blade then squeegee. Cuts down a fair bit (but not entirely) on detailing with a towel.
The only benefit from the video that I can see is it saves you on towel usage but his technique uses a lot steps in the pursuit of not having to detail later.
If you’re using a scrim, you can go the whole day with just one towel.
Why was my post taken off? I dont understand that at all? Please explan. 
Can I have the regular swirl please? I’m trying to watch my carpal tunnel intake.
I like his “cut in” techniques.
it was a accident… your language should just have been cut out. It is fixed now.
Maybe I should not have said that.:o He was hosting a Webinar a few months ago and I had the pleasure to take part. Umm…….well the guy has in own way of doing thing I should say. I didn’t agree with a lot of what he was saying. I ask him about something’s that I disagreed with and he got mad and basically said his way was the only way and anyone that did it different was going to crash ad burn. Maybe his way will work for others but not for me.
I bought his kit as my first step in this business and never had any issues with the guy. He is very prompt to answer emails which I thought was a cool. Thing. The guys videos are stright and to the point and to be honest helped me get enough confidence to walk door to door. Funny thing. I used some of his methods in the door to door and landed clients the first day and that was in the middle of winter. I think the fanning or swirling techniques have their place. I think they are great time savers on large plates, but if your doing res I really laugh at how tightly spun some dudes are with this. I walk into a home with one blade and one blade only. If there are french windows I will take a smaller one with me. But I find the 12 or 18 inch is fine for 99% res jobs. Most ddbl hung windows are 24 to 36 inches. If the tools is used correctly two stright pulls are just as fast and just as effective. I fan when needed, but don’t get too wrapped up in it. I have yet to have a client even mention the fact that I do it. I have done it right in front of their face and never a comment on how cool it looks. Or how professional it makes me. There was a guy here last year selling his WC’ing business and he needed it sold on a deadline. I was contacted by him a 2nd time fishing for me to make an offer. He told me he had a guy interested but when he took him on the job he would not sell him the busines cause the guy could not fan correctly. Come on, that’s just retarded and stupid. Fanning, swirling is one tiny tiny tiny part of being called a window cleaner. You can swirl, fan etc with a pro-curve all you want and look fancy as heck doing it. But if the rest of the job looks like a turd then the there you go. You just swirled a turd.
There’s a toilet joke in there somewhere.
Youve got a point about fanning when doing residential. I fan almost every window, my wife pulls across. We usually finish a window in about the same time(except for big windows) Fanning is pretty important when it comes to oddly shaped windows and such. I dont know, I just have a lot more fun when I fan than when I do straight strokes. Ive had a lot of compliments from customers “thats so zen dude” or “its almost like youre dancing with the window” and “youre an artist not a cleaner”.
Deep stuff, they probably say these things beacuse I listen to Enya and Andrea Boccelli while I work. 
andy has some great ideas , he thinks outside- of -the- box too . every few months i will watch or read something of his and try it out. good guy i say
Andy has been a big help to me as well and I respect his work.
His idea about the sea sponge is obviously not new, but is overlooked far too often. Johnny Orsini calls it a critical edge, guys have been probably calling it hundreds of names for years and years, but most guys fail to create it.
I actually learned the s swirl from andys video a while ago. I use it all the time. It does save a ton of time. Although,I dont clear the edges w/the squeegee first , I do a dry edge where I start and it works fine and if you fan well theres hardly any detailing to do when your done.
…I use it but am not so good that I don’t have to
detail. Actually I like to detail, so I get as close as
I can and detail with a blue surgical cloth.
And fanning isn’t always the best for the situation.
I use straight pulls accross or down as well.
I use what’s easiest for me in the moment.
I really laughed watching a video here of some guys doing really fancy
two handed swirls and stuff on storefronts.
I would get out my 36" squeegee
and be done in three straight pulls and a little
detailing.
Matthew
I read his 30 day dazzle system. That seems pretty insightful and sound, but I’m not sure that 3 after-service cards in 30 days is not going to just irritate a customer instead of deepen the relationship and the desire to give referrals.
The bait he puts out for buying his book seem to me to be a little narrow-minded. One example: he claims that ammonia and alcohol damage glass. And there’s supposed to be a way of detecting fabricating debris on glass? Unless he’s encouraging the use of a powerful microscope.
Andy looked ill in his latest video,the one on sending out video cards . hope he is okay
