Confusion with towels

Residential
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Ok, so I’m a little confused with the towel situation. What towels are used for:

  1. Detailing after using squeegee.
  2. Clean up sills, frames etc after squeegee
  3. Drying off squeegee between windows.

Thanks…

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  1. Hucks towels - scrims - chamois

  2. Cotton cloth - scrims - microfiber

  3. Don’t get caught up with drying your squeegee after every window, ot especially after ever pull.
    With that said. Lots of people use sea sponge

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Hucks are great to detail, microfibers kinda suck for detail work, but they are great on cleaning up spills and cleaning tracks…

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What Mike said.

For me:

  1. Scrim cut in half or huck/surgical towel. If you’re starting out, get a couple hundred hucks or the 3 pack of scrim.

  2. Cheap microfiber - they hold a lot of water if you’re inside on a commercial job. They can be used to mop the floor if you get sloppy. And they can be thrown in the trash if they get stained.

  3. I never dry my squeegee. I’ll wipe it on the mop if I get dog or cat hair on it. If you have to dry your squeegee because it’s leaving lines, then you either have hair on it or you need a new rubber. These aren’t car squeegees.

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  1. Scrim (full size)
  2. Microfiber (waffle weave, better scrubbing)
  3. Sea Sponge (mostly for mopping up sills.)
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Hey guys,
I stumbled across the BEST DETAIL CLOTH EVER! I’ve used scrim, huck towels, microfiber, cotton, so on and so forth.
Have you ever heard of “e-cloth”?
It is absolutely amazing!!!
A little pricy, but a million times better than the “specialty” cloths we’ve been buying! Ie: unger ninja cloth, ettore micro detail cloth, etc.
You can find it on Amazon
(Until [MENTION=1]Chris[/MENTION] starts carrying this in the WCR store)

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Guilty! I’m caught up with drying my squeegee after every pull. I just find that if I don’t, most often there is water that gets back on the windows from the squeegee. I’m up for any suggestions it sure would save some time.

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On cut ups I do. That’s cause I wet in a bunch then squeegee in one hand rag in the other prob. don’t need to wipe every time, but it’s just habit now. Others may differ in this opinion ,
If your doing stick work just tap your squeegee on the glass no need every pull . Remember water goes in the channel. You can tilt your channel an water will run out if it .

If your doing nose to glass work there should be no need to wipe unless there is something on the rubber .
I see guys wiping every pull man time is money dudes!
Maybe also in a house have a rag to drip in it so it don’t go on the floor . Jmo

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There been a lot of good information so far in this thread.

I would like to say,add a sea sponge to your work belt set up, they work great for window tracks, squeegee wipes and water clean up.

Hucks are good for detailing,high quality micro fibers are also good.

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If you fan every pane of glass you clean it almost eliminates wiping the squeegee blade. The straight pull method really needs a dry rubber on every stoke. My guess is that the guys on this thread who don’t wipe the rubber are fanning the glass.

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What about stick work when your doing storefronts I do not wipe ever. Unless there is something on the rubber

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Me neither.

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I don’t. It’s a matter of technique. I’ll do a video eventually because it’s really hard to describe pull downs.

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[video]Cleaning Shop Windows with Extension Pole - YouTube
This is how I do a storefront window with a pole. However I spend more time on that last pull feathering it in so there are no water marks.
I think we can all agree that this method would not pass inspection on a double hung window at a high end customer’s home. Storefronts and residential are different animals.

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On a side note wiping the rubber with a dry towel will dull the edge faster than using a sea sponge.

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Have any of you guys ever used a zero degree squeegee unger is the best. That’s all I use for commercial pole work. U can fan it all the way down to the bottom. I find it’s faster than pull down. And I have always stunk at pull downs anyway. I leave stuff and get totally frustrated. But with a zero, swish swish swish and your done. I can’t wait to add a manufactured no detail channel and I will be really rocking. I stink also at my own modifications. Often so busy I don’t have time to perfect them. Unger Zero’s rock.

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Oh the topic question 1. Hucks and scrims. 2. Old small bath towels soak up a lot of water. I don’t use like a supper plush more like a cheep dollar store type. Great to spread out like a small drop cloth and the best thing is to let them dry in the van and they get crusty and really good to get spider poop off sills and what not. 3. I guess I use to much soapy solution because my sea sponges foam up like crazy when I use them. So when I need to clean my rubber off I just wipe it on a towel. But don’t usually wipe unless it’s dirty or inside and don’t want to drip.

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Newbie FYI: The key to pole work is the squeegee angle. The water will want to run up your squeegee, think of a grader pushing dirt or a snow shovel pushing snow or try to push marbles with a stick. Or whatever helps you picture it. If you pull down and your squeegee is horizontal, you’ll have lines on both sides. If you angle the squeegee, the water will want to climb up the squeegee.

So like in that video, working right to left, the left end of the squeegee should be a little higher than the right. This pushes the water on the squeegee towards the wet glass and leaves the dry glass dry. You don’t need a lot of overlap, just keep the water going the right direction. You also don’t need a lot of angle.

When you pull down and move to go back up on the glass, turn your squeegee the direction you’re going: moving left, the left end of the squeegee should be down which keeps the water flowing towards the wet glass. Then when you’re on the glass, the left end will be higher than the right.

If you do it right, you don’t need to wipe your squeegee.

Yeah, that’s a pretty good way to do it.

I think we can all agree that this method would not pass inspection on a double hung window at a high end customer’s home. Storefronts and residential are different animals.
DH? Probably not, but I’ve done a lot of pole work at customer houses with large picture windows.

With that said, I got to tell you, that wagtail is my new favorite tool. Stupid high eyelids are a sweet sweet breeze now. Triangle windows, no problem. If I need to do pole work at a house, the wagtail is now on the end of it. I can’t believe I went 4 years without one in my kit.

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Good tip but I cannot use zero degree’s.

Oh, when my boab gets full of soap foam, I’ll wipe the squeegee on my mop.

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I have used cloth diapers for years, there just for the frames and they hold a ton of water and have good subbing power for dirty frames, I have hucks as well and a scrim, diapers for the frames, hucks for the window rubbers or to finish frames if needed and scrim to detail any glass
I also never wipe my squeegee unless there is a hair or something on it, just give it a tap on the glass. There were times we would have people in offices ask us if there was a different way we could do it that didn’t involve tapping on the glass, we would tell them no, its funny whats acceptable in ones mind as an employee but now I would try to accommodate as a business owner.