Window Cleaning Success

Answers To Some Common Beginning Window Cleaning Questions

Question: How often should you change your window cleaning solution?

Answer: As often as you’d like. If you are working only on exterior windows, then it is no big deal to have dirty water, and you can use it for a long time.

However if you are going to be cleaning interior windows, it’s a good idea to have fairly clean water handy so if you drip on the customers light carpet you don’t leave black little spots.

Rule of thumb is, if you think your water is to dirty then change it cuz it probably needs it, but just don’t get carried away with that or you’ll spend way more than you should on soap. Just use your best judgment as there is no hard and fast rule for this.

Question: I often struggle with taking off our screens, I watched your video but on many of the screens I still had to go inside to take off the screen. Is this something you run into on a regular basis?

Answer: Practice makes improvement. I struggled a lot with screens at first as well, but just keep on going and soon they will be much easier for you to pop out from the outside.

However some houses have really tight screens or frames that prevent you from removing the screens from the outside, so in this case you will have to remove the screens from the inside.

There is nothing wrong with removing the screens from the inside, if that is the method you prefer, just do what you’re comfortable with.

Question: What do you do with the window blinds? Do you just raise them up and try to clean under the best you can without damaging them or is there another secret?

Answer: If you absolutely must take them down to get to the window, then do so very carefully, window blinds are a pain in the butt and are often installed in a very half assed way and the last thing you want is to damage your customers blinds.

99% of the time we just raise or open the blinds and work around them, it really doesn’t interfere with the quality of your work and with practice it won’t slow you down at all either.