The bottle is mainly to save trips to the bucket. The bucket is in the truck so I can rinse off my mop. The mop also rides in the bucket between jobs to help wash it.
As far as the device, it might be a great tool for residential because it helps keep your mop clean. I just wouldn’t drag it around on route.
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I got the idea a while back to attach my Unger boab to a strap and sling it across my shoulder like they show in the pictures. I thought if it worked for my messenger bag I might like it for my boab. I hated it. Every time I bent down my boab came swinging around and banged into what ever was in front of me. It looks great standing still but try actually working quickly and maneuvering with it with and that’s another story.
I use a bottle indoors also, it also looks to me like this set up would leave a lot of water on the floors because the squeegee is not in a enclosed holder. So after you clean one window it would be dripping everywhere.
Joe
So I just watched this commercial for it, I had seen pictures and read about it awhile back… The commercial confirms how dumb the product is, a squeegee left just to drip water all over the customers’ floor? And you are only wetting one side of your mop?
I’ll stick to what works for me, I’m sure the maid services will eat this product up and give it some decent numbers though
Mike Radzik
Pro Window Cleaning
Central Massachusetts
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I love the modifications you made to the bucket. I’ve been trying to think of something like that. I’m going to have to stop at home Depot on my way home tomorrow.
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Nothing in my Ettore bucket but less than two gallons of soapy water. It’s light and efficient. The rope handle rocks!
We use Pulex detachable BOABs attached to a Camelbak with a shut-off valve at the BOAB. The Camelbaks are low profile and don’t get in the way. Once you get used to wearing them you forget they are there. You always have a supply of fresh water, and if the water in your BOAB gets dirty, you can swish the BOAB out and pour the dirty water down the sink or toilet or whatever, and start fresh again. The Camelbak system is great in you have to climb ladders and need to be hands free. The only caveat is that you need to remember to shut off the valve, or you will get “wet leg”. Once you’ve done that once or twice you tend to remember. I have been working on an automatic float level shut-off valve, but haven’t found anything that works yet.
Dripping: If you just change your technique a little, you can avoid drips using a BOAB. I just turn my washer as I take it out of the BOAB, so that the wet end faces up, then the water just drains down into the dry end instead of dripping on the floor. I mostly use horizontal strokes when I am washing resi insides anyway. If the client has white carpet, or polished floors then i put a towel on the floor just in case a stray drip does escape.
Sorry, don’t have any ideas about what to do about the hips. 
I found the key to not dripping inside a customers house is really choosing the right strip washer. Something that holds the water and only releases it on the window and doesn’t drip. I like the green Unger microfiber and also the micro tiger by Pulex. By using a bottle on a belt you have a lot of control over the amount of water you are putting into your strip washer. Frankly if you were dripping you’re using too much water. When you start to get dry put your scrubber horizontally on the window and squirt some solution just above it so that it runs down onto your strip washer. Job done!
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The pulex boab hangs a little lower, so that might help your situation. But when pulling the mop out of the boab, turn it upside down over the boab. The water runs to the bottom and when you pull it out and flip it, the water heads back up to the dryer side preventing drips.
Exactly.
Exactly!!!, an if ther is water accumulating In your boab dump it out in a toilet or somewhere. Not someone’s kitchen sink though
The only than that should drip an will drip is the water In your channel, But let that drip onto the strip washrr or sill , or rag
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Less water less drips
Pretty simple when in stops to really think sbout it
Pax
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I just got a pulex boab and it hangs way low! I’m used to the green Unger classic, I feel like the pulex just keeps hitting me in the back of the leg.
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The Pulex probably hangs lower because of the detachable clip. But being able to remove your BOAB with a quick clip is priceless.
Its not that i have to much water in the wand, but the boab doesnt have the same amount of space to wring water off the wand like over a bucket does. I don’t want any drips, ever. I also worry about the squeegee dripping too.
I’ve found boabs to be very helpful hanging off the top of my ladder when I’m working. Ill give the pulex a shot.
Mephany, when you or anyone uses the squeeze bottle method. The strip washer is basically just damp. Then all you need is a little bit of water squeezed on to the cover while you have it pressed against the window … to do a window. When you pull the strip Wahser away from the window it shouldn’t drip because all the water was used already or obsorbed into the cover .
I don’t know I understand each method isn’t for everyone . I’m just saying I don’t think I ever dripped with my strip Wahser
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From the responses I am reading here, I think some of y’all are working too hard
??? Would you care to elaborate?
The classic has a quick clip as well, I also have an ettore side kick that sits a hair lower than the classic due to design of the quick clip, but the pulex seems drastically low to me in comparison.
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