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Summary: Watch as a window-cleaning professional discusses towel use in exterior window cleaning this free online video about window maintenance.
Dave Barker has been cleaning windows since 1983. He has cleaned thousands of windows on downtown buildings, suburban office buildings, and government facilities.read more
"DAVE BARKER: On behalf of Expert Village, I'm Dave Barker and I would like to show you how to [INDISCERNIBLE] a towel. There are different versions of towels. We've got right here--this is just a terry--a white terry cloth towel. It's just a small towel. You can use larger towels but it's just convenient to have a towel here to be able to absorb the water. I'll use a damp--you like--you want at least two towels. Now, I have a damp towel here that I've been using and I can use that to wipe the squeegee off. And I also have a dry towel. You want to keep that dry. That's only for the edges. It's only for the top. If you get that wet, rotate it through and just continue to--actually rotate it through, use the edge of your finger every time you're doing--I'm showing you--do it once, wipe it off, do it another time, rotate it, wipe it down and--where you're going to use this towel is right here on the very corner, on the very edge. You don't want to get in the middle because that's what the squeegee is for. This isn't for cleaning the window. You can clean the whole window with a rag but you're going to leave marks over it. We're using--like I said before, we're using one of the brand-name products or something else. This isn't for cleaning. It's for touching up. And so we've shown you how to use a towel and what the purpose of the towel is, and I'm going to go in the next segment."
eHow Article: Window Cleaning With Towels