On hot days with direct sunlight, my water evaporates so fast on the window! I’m using glass gleam 4. Does Ecover give me a little more time? another product?
Different products may help but just using more water get the glass real wet to cool it off
Also, add some slick to your mixture and It will help some. I have found that ultimately a person just has to work faster when dealing with these conditions
A bit new…slick?
Ecover dries faster in the sun than other solutions I’ve used.
How much are you using?
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First ya want to avoid doing that if possible HOWEVER last summer I found my self cleaning windowsin the 110 degree central Texas sun and heat.
Here’s how I did it.
Some times depending ( if it was over a hundred or not) I would double wet. The first wet to cool the glass the second to scrub
I used the" squeegee following the washer" technic as much as possible. ( go to YouTube and search " how to scrub hot glass" )
Do smaller areas and speed up if possible
GET SOME SUPER SLIP !!
this is the BEST and I only use it during hot weather. It gives you a little extra cushion of evap time.
My mentor puts water frozen in 2 litter pop bottles in his bucket to look the solution down thus giving him more evap time. That’s not my. Style but thought I would throw it out there.
HOWEVER THE ABSOLUTE best way to clean hot glass is don’t!.
But if ya gotta super slip is the way to go. Use sparingly to get your solution right for you
Have fun!!! Pax. Pags
Whatever you use in your solution, … just use a lot of solution! That’s hard to do inside I know, but outside it will help. I usually just keep a mop in one hand and a squeegee in another. Rewet when portions of the glass start to dry. Also the backflip is a good tool to use on high windows when it’s hot.
I’ve never really noticed if certain soaps work better than others in this condition, … they all dry at about the same rate as far as I can tell.
Pure water!
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If you are outside, you basically have to have the water running on the glass. Use more water/solution on the glass than you normally would.
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really really, gg4 or what ever will go away so fast, dawn and ammonia, and some speed, just have to use a ton of water
Glass gleam is the best soap as far as not drying quickly, so your on the right track there. As some guys have stated adding a wetting agent like Sorbo glide, or super slip will keep the glass wet longer. As also posted using a multi tool can help like the back flip etc. If the glass is darkly tinted or is the black non see through glass then they get too hot to clean in direct sunlight unless you use a multi tool to squeegee immediately after wetting. But most glass you should be able to clean with glass gleam in direct sunlight with regular soap and squeegee, you just have to build up you window cleaning speed.
I usually wet several windows at once in direct light up to about 80 degrees, then I have to wet less windows or drop to one window at a time, but as long as it is not really dark glass or blacked out glass you can wet and squeegee one at a time in direct sunlight with good speed. That’s also in in the Texas summer heat.
Stick with the glass gleam. I don’t like it as far as slip goes but I use it in the summer time for the vary reason that dish soap or some other soaps dry too quick. Glass gleam is the way to go.
but as long as it is not really dark glass or blacked out glass you can wet and squeegee one at a time in direct sunlight with good speed.
In this video the glass was black.
If you look carefully, you can see the steam come off the glass.
It was in direct sun light and the black glass heats up quick.
work fast, really fast. Also try to schedule yourself around the sun it moves so shade will be on different sides of buildings at different times of day.
what about the top inch or so? Do you ever wet/squeegee that part?
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Out here in sunny California, land of the fruits and nuts, we have a lot of sun.
If you are out there at the wrong time, it is steaming off there immediately with a dark window.
I think you have to come back at a different time out here. I don’t know how to do it.
Regards
A few of the posts before yours in this thread had some great tips on cleaning hot glass you could try those and learn how to do it.
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