Let me first introduce myself, my name is Travis and I am the proud new owner of a window cleaning company.
I got all the bells and whistles needed to start a window cleaning company and thought I had the cleaning procedure pretty much summed up.
It wasn’t until I was cleaning my first store front that I learned the importance of proper towels.
As I squeegeed the first mirror of the mom and pop nail salon a lady getting her nails done asked how much it would cost to get her house done. I turned and said to her that I offered a flat rate of 20 windows for $200 inside and out.
She then asked about french panes, how much per pane? I told her it was about 75 cents. The look of disgust on her face focused me back to the task at hand. That’s when I took my pretty white microfiber towel and attempted to detail that first mirror. I immediately realized I was in trouble when I left hundreds of tiny fibers everywhere my towel touched…
Two hours later I was 30 dollars richer and I immediately invested in a chamois from the good ole wal-mart.
How could have I missed the ever so important huck, scrim, chamois memo?
Well if any of you newbies didn’t know, get the dang hucks. I’m about to order a ton.
Keep those microfibers handy for frames, especially vinyl frames. Good cleaning rags, just usually not on glass unless you get a very specific microfiber weave intended for windows.
I don’t know what I was thinking. I just had some cheap-o microfiber. After today I see my towels for what they are. Tools. Looks like I’ll be shopping for some tools.
When you wash and dry them do them separately or the fibers and lint from other things will attach to your nice clean huck; surgical; or microfiber towels. And no dryer sheets either!
Be sure to get yourself a scrim too. I still use hucks for some specific reasons, but the scrim is my everyday workhorse. It’s extremely effective and you don’t really need to put it in the wash except for a few times in the beginning to break it in. That saves you a lot of washing.
Oh, and there’s proly a ton of memos you didn’t get, so stick around.
Welcome to the forum, Travis.
I still consider hucks my go-to for detailing. I do like scrim, but they seem to leave lint once in awhile when hucks don’t 99.9% of the time.
I love microfibers for sills and frames, but find them not so good on glass. Having a wet one to scrub bad stuff on glass before squeegeeing is quite helpful, though.
