Looking for other people idea on what the best towels to use for wiping the window edges and frame with , we have just been using the 100% cotton bar towels they work great and all but needing to buy more so looking for input. thanks
We use a scrim and chamois combo. The chamois has become my pick up towel and we use the scrim to do detailing. I know it’s old school but it works well!
I use 2’ x 4’ white cotton towels to protect interior residential sills.
I use low-priced yellow microfiber cloths from Costco ($0.30 each?) to wipe frames.
I use surgical towels or Unger HD Restroom microfiber towels to detail glass edges.
I just use blue huck towels…for everything…drop cloth and wiping sills and frames…EVERYTHING!!
I used to use blue huck towels for everything.
For about 6 months I’ve been using scrim for detailing and synthetic chamois for a pick-up towel. This system is so good!!! I use one scrim and one fake chamois on any size house.
I’ll use 2 scrims when doing commercial all day long. I just alternate them letting one dry out while I use the other for detailing.
I love this about the scrim! I can use 1 and go all day. If it’s a really packed day I use 2 and let one dry while using the other. Since the scrim dries out so quick it doesn’t get funky like a wet huck will.
You just can’t beat the scrim!!! I no longer have to wash, dry, fold, or carry around all of those hucks.
Once a huck gets wet it’s shot for the day. A scrim can get wet/damp and be dried out and ready to go again in an hour if the weather is nice. The best part is you only need one or two per day.
I have 5 scrim cloths but usually use at the most 2 per day. This is possible because I use the fake chamois for pick-up towel and only use the scrim for detailing the glass.
After washing my scrim in the machine I just let it hang and air dry. This saves a lot on energy cost throughout the year.
They say that scrim is old school but that blows my mind. What the huck?
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scrim is your answer, that plus a chamois and a sponge and you’re rocking
Sounds like the scrim is a big hit. Sure took us a long time to learn from the Brits . I guess I need to order one. I gave up the chamois 10 years ago for the hucks towels
Yeah, I hope those Brits keep it coming!!!
The WFP, the scrim, …what’s next? I can’t wait!!!
It’s time us Yanks made a revolutionary product
How about the interior WFP!!!
Well, I was assuming that the WFP was invented by the Brits but I may be wrong. I did a search and came up with nothing definite.
Anybody know for sure who actually invented the first Water Fed Pole. It has been brought to my attention that Tucker made the first water fed pole but I don’t knw if that’s true or not. Did Tucker actually invent the very first water fed pole?
I was thinking of a clever way of catching the water for the insides, but I can’t get nothing down
Keep thinking Matt, it’ll come to ya one day and I’ll help ya build it. We’ll get rich off of it! LOL
I know we didn’t invent it, but we have perfected imperialism, no?
Tucker did, in fact, invent the wfp in the 1950’s. It was originally used to wash houses and boats. Later it was used for windows. Craig Mawlam of Ionics was the British distributor of Tucker until he invented his fiberglass pole and the rest, as they say, is history.
That’s a big one for the Yanks then.
But was Tucker the first to utilize pure water for window cleaning along with their WFP’s or did they initially use straight water from tap?
Not sure about the use of pure water. I know Tucker employed the x mehtod washing system (the soap dispensing tube) to clean windows at first. I’d have to check w/ Robin to see when they started offering their DI tanks. I assume sometime in the 80’s.
