Was looking for a quicker way to do inside residential work. I feel I’m pretty good with the hand tools I have but of course I’m always looking for a quicker and effective way to clean windows. So I was checking out the speed cleaning kits by unger and I believe IPC make one. Even if you haven’t tried them I would still appreciate your feedback. Thanks.
I’m pretty interested also, I keep toying with the idea of buying a kit.
I have the speed cleaning kit, we use it on interior maintenance. I would hesitate to use in first clean resi work personally. I have used it on difficult windows inside and turned out well. Just like anything though, just another tool in the box. Some may use it much more than we do, right John Lee?
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Seems like even for maintenance work it wouldn’t hurt to have it tucked to the side in the truck. Might be a good $100.00ish investment? Then I see the discount Unger is giving at the top of the page lol.
I agree with what Jeremiah said. I use it for interior skylights hard to reach windows and filmed windows that are up high. I use it with Sprayway which works great, but has some sun limitations. I have saved at least 10 hours of work since April using the Unger Kit. Multiply that by a conservative hourly rate of lets say $60.00 per hour and it has paid formitself many times over, let alone the safety factor of laderless work. I think John Lee would have a lot to say about the Unger Kit. [MENTION=1103]johnedwardlee[/MENTION]
[QUOTE=TransparentWindowWashing;248808]Was looking for a quicker way to do inside residential work. I feel I’m pretty good with the hand tools I have but of course I’m always looking for a quicker and effective way to clean windows. So I was checking out the speed cleaning kits by unger and I believe IPC make one. Even if you haven’t tried them I would still appreciate your feedback. Thanks.[
I didn’t buy the kit . I bought the pads an pad holder and im using denatured alcohol and di water. great for sky lights stair case windows
if there real dirty an its doable ill stick them first with wand an squeegee then buff them with the pads
While I don’t use the kit,
I put together a indoor system with advice from John Lee.
Speeds me up tremendously on rezzy and helps alot on storefront interior maintenance.
Pax
Pagliachi would you mind giving some detail on your setup for indoor system.
[MENTION=3025]pagliachi[/MENTION] enlighten use on your indoor system…
The Unger microfiber cleaning pad is the bomb. Use very little water just a mist.
John Lee, how many windows or 'bombs" do you get from one cleaning pad and what is the ratio to polishing pads? [MENTION=3025]pagliachi[/MENTION], get in here and talk about what you came up with.
Yeah Pax! You tell him, Dale!
We’ve been using the Unger Inside Cleaning Kit for sometime now, and up until today, I would have agreed that it was good for maintenance cleans and not first time cleans…not any more!
This was a new customer. Had one of those crazy early 70’s wedge/cube shaped houses today with pieces of glass (I kid you not) that were 24" x 24’! We had four of those monstors, plus 5 high insides that were 24" x 5’. With the window treatments and crazy hallways, just impossible to get a ladder in and out safely. I tried using a scrubber and a squeegee on a pole first, but the water on the inside was running black and drips flying everywhere.
So I got out my Unger Speed Cleaning kit and attached the head to a regular extension pole cause I needed a good 18-feet of reach. Did the first window and not too happy. It was ok, but could be better. I then decided to soak my regular t-bar scrubber in some pure water and wring it out good. Then I put it on the extension pole and scrubbed the glass good, getting in the corners and everything. I then put on the fluffy green Unger pad and went to town just like I did with the scrubber. I then swapped out to the Unger Micro Fiber pad and hit it again, making sure I got good coverage and good pressure on the pad so it could do it’s work.
And BAM! That baby was clean! Sun came through it later and it looked great. This is how dirty this window was: had to resoak scrubber with pure water after EACH window because it came back black. Could only use one fluffy Unger Pad and one Micro Fiber pad per window, because they also came back black. I found that turning the applicator to vertical instead of horizontal works much better in terms of control and cleaning.
This approach would be problematic if the window had a lot of cut-ups and frame detailing, but with the larger pieces of glass we had today, plus the big monstors, this kit saved my butt! And P.S. the homeowner was thrilled and booked her next Year’s cleaning before I left.
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Thanks Randy, good info!
Well i got 2 systems
The first, using the unger wash pad and sprayway or zep foaming window cleaner.
i use this on my inside maint cleans for store fronts. Just a spritz and it works wonders!1
I use it about for 4 maint cleans then i do a wet clean. Normal mop and squeegee.
The second is for residential.
i use the unger micro fiber pads, with r/o water. i only use this one for residential interiors.
it has a little learning curve figgering how much r/o to spray on the pad. I use just a spray bottle.
But once you get the hang of it its the bomb!!! Speed up my interiors tremendously, though for heavy soil inside windows you may have to do them twice.
i have a plastic caddy i got from wallyworld, . it holds my sprayway, and my r/o spray bottle, and microfibers and pads, scraper and such.
i don’t wear a belt anymore for interior work anymore.
Hats Off to John Lee!!!
pax
I keep a dozen clean microfiber cleaning pads with me all the time. Make sure you wash them in hot water and no soap and only with microfiber. There is a learning curve but stay at it and you will be sold on this system. No drips
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Im tempted to get me one of these…
How much to charge for a skylight or window that would be very hard to reach any other way then using these pads? Anybody? If you don’t want to talk money, same, 1.5x, 2x, as a regular window?
I’ve been using the kit for about 6 months, but only for high interior windows, easy just attach the pad holder to your WFP. However yesterday I had an issue with DI resin and some exterior windows had a bit of spotting, so I figured the window is already clean, just threw the pad on my WFP gave it a little spray with pure water. Windows looked perfect.
You guys sold me on this - or I just wanted a new toy… Just placed my first wcr order last night and went for the $90 Unger indoor kit + a couple other goodies 
