Today I had a job where I needed to do both because they were bad, but I usually do one or the other. Do you charge extra for dry-brush, mop clean, hose-off combo, or do you just deal with the extra time because you don’t want to change your original bid?
I usually wet-mop, and wipe with a used blue, but today, it just made mud. A lot of dust whipping around the farmlands…
Figure it’s case-by-case, but what’s your general go-to when doing screens that aren’t too bad (aka average dirt content)?
Define “average.” For me average is being able to write my name in the screen.
I never dry brush. I don’t want to breath dust into my lungs.
The only time I ever have had to charge for screen cleaning comes with the pollen. Sometimes Spring gets hit hard here with heavy pollen and the nylon screens take a beating. Once the pollen has stopped going crazy a simple brush works almost all of the time and then there will be a random screen or a few that need some extra lovin, which I don’t charge for and its included in the original WC price per window.
The gross pollen months and having to really scrub and clean the screens is making me consider a screen washer for next season. I’m not interested in hand scrubbing 30+ screens next season at all on a daily basis.
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… Dry brush with this Ettore Super Brush | Ettore Window Cleaning Tools & Supplies
It’s an awesome screen brush and excellent for cob webs too. Then I damp wipe with with a
micro-fiber cloth I get at Costco. No hose needed. It helps to be up wind when dry brushing…
Finally found a reason to use microfibers for window cleaning!
I usually use a mop and wipe the water out with a used blue, but some jobs seem to need more.
Finally found a reason to use microfibers for window cleaning!
I usually use a mop and wipe the water out with a used blue, but some jobs seem to need more.
I’m a firm believer in having this brush on hand. I bought it over the summer. I’ve never wanted to spend $30 on a brush but this thing just rules so hard.
I’m always going to have one of these in the truck after all the use it has had this past season.
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I started out dry brushing, it really wasn’t very effective in many cases, I live on a coast 90% of windows I clean are within 1 km of the ocean. So you get salt in the air mixed with dirt and left a while, dry brush doesn’t do much, and if you leave a screen dirty then it rains the window under the screen is going to get dirty straight away and the customer is going to assume you did not clean the screen as you claimed you would.
Here in Australia most screens will not come out as they are security screens with a grid or a steel mesh so they need to be cleaned within the frame, this requires both a dry dusting from the inside and a wet clean from the outside with a soap solution and a mid pressure rinse, most of the time we encounter mud wasp nest within the side and top tracks of the screen.
When i encounter a screen that is very dirty then the external house is most likely in a similar condition where I would recommend a house wash.
Just tried out a new Aztec screen cleaner from JaredAl and it rocks right out of the box. Wish I would have bought one sooner.
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I hold my breath while I dry brush, run away like the screen is a beehive while the dust settles, then I do the same thing with the others. I keep forgetting to buy dust masks when I’m getting my steel wool and shoe covers. I usually use my mop, but I’m not sure if that’s any better, especially if I’m inside, and can’t use much water.
