Evaluating Windows for Cleaning

Series Summary

Cleaning windows can be a very frustrating job if you don' t know what your doing. You often replace a pane full of bugs with a pane full of streaks. The harder you try to rub off the steaks, the worse they become and on and on into oblivion. Because washing windows in like washing your soul: there will always be that one black spot you can never quite get rid of. As you suspected, there is a better way to do this without all of the frustration. Professionals who clean widows full time know all of the inside tricks, and in this free series, our expert will share his secrets with you.

In this series of window washing lessons, our expert will teach you how to size up you window cleaning project and choose the right tools for the job. You will learn all about squeegees, how to clean them how to repair them, how to use them without making streaks on the windows. Our expert will also demonstrate how to clean different size windows and wash windows in adverse weather conditions. Watch this series and you too will become an expert window cleaner.

Video Transcript

"DAVE BARKER: On behalf of Expert Village, I'm Dave Barker with Barker Window Cleaning also here in Salt Lake City. I'm going to show you how to evaluate the window, the size, shape, also how dirty it is, maybe accessibility, some tools you may need to use to get the window. So if you look at a set of windows, this is a commercial building here in downtown Salt Lake. I'm going to look at the size of it and I'm going to see--I've got of couple of different squeegees here. First off, this is about a 30-inch squeegee. This is about an 18-inch squeegee. This will work with this size. Almost do that with one pass, you'll have to do a couple. This one is going to be little too large so we can do this sideways or we can get a smaller squeegee. The dirt on this building, it was cleaned about six months ago, so it doesn't need any extra scrubbing or anything, maybe some fingerprints. But it doesn't require any extra equipment. I'll show you some other problem windows later. The other thing is accessibility. I'm going to need a ladder or a pole to access the higher windows. I'll get to that a little bit later. And of course, what I won't cover today is that six stories above, we use a drop-and-rappel method for doing that but I'm not going to get into any of that. This is just a straightforward shot."