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Beyond the Blade: Essential Squeegee Accessories
As a window cleaner, you know that having the right tools can significantly impact your efficiency and the quality of your work. While a high-quality squeegee is a cornerstone of your toolkit, the accessories are key to keeping squeegees in working order so they last longer. Updating your current squeegees with replacement parts will save you hundreds of dollars. Explore the essential squeegee accessories that can help you keep costs low and achieve professional results.
How Can Squeegee Accessories Make Window Cleaning Easier?
By utilizing squeegee accessories, window cleaners can achieve professional results, save time and effort, and maintain their squeegees in top working condition. Make your squeegee even more effective with these accessories:
- Prolonging Lifespan: Spare parts allow for easy maintenance, extending the overall life of the squeegee and preventing the need for a complete replacement. Keep backup parts like clips, handles, rubber, and end plugs handy to avoid downtime.
- Improving Performance: Squeegee rubber is designed to remove water from windows, but over time, the blade wears down, which can lead to streaks. Replacing it regularly ensures a smooth, streak-free finish. Similarly, mops should be replaced when the fibers start to fray from the wear and tear of regular use, as this can reduce their ability to hold water and scrub grime properly.
- Enhancing Precision: Rubber cutters enable precise blade trimming, maintaining sharp edges for clean and efficient water removal.
- Expanding Capabilities: Accessories like squeegee handles, extension poles, and specialized cleaning solutions make tackling any kind of window easier and safer.
What are Some Tools For Optimizing Squeegee Performance?
Want sharper blades, cleaner cuts, and better window cleaning results? These tools ensure your squeegee blades are always in top condition, delivering streak-free windows.
Ronan Multi-Cut Rubber Cutter
Every window cleaner can benefit from adding this cutter to their toolbox. The razor-sharp blade and anvil-like action provide clean cuts for trimming rubber. It has measurements etched into the blade for precise sizing to match your channel. The cutter also includes a safety lock and rust-resistant coating. Replacement blades are available. Regularly replace your blades to maintain performance and prevent water streaking.
Sörbo Docket Squeegee Sharpener
What if you could reuse your worn-down blades? You can by combining this revolutionary product with Sörbo's trimmable rubber blades. Trim the rubber blades up to twelve times, each time getting a precise edge for clean pulls and fanning. Save thousands and avoid waste!
NICE Squeegee Rubber Container
Now that your rubber blades are all sharp, cut to size, and ready for use, where do you store them? The Nice Squeegee Rubber Container can hold rubber up to 24 inches long, this is perfect for keeping your supply together and damage-free.
How Can I Upgrade My Squeegee?
Many of our squeegees can be upgraded to include additional features. These kits can help you get the most out of your tools:
Ettore Top Clip Spring Pin for Quick Release Squeegee Handle or Ettore Pro+ Quick Release Squeegee Handle Kit replaces current parts or can be used to upgrade standard Ettore and Sörbo Ledger handles. Turn your current handle into a quick release for added convenience.
Adapt your standard channels into Super Channels with the Ettore Super Channel Handle Kit. Turn your current handles, including the Ledger, into one that will accommodate Ettore’s larger channel sizes of 24”, 30”, or 36”.
What are the Benefits of Using Clips?
Clips ensure the squeegee rubber stays securely locked in place to the channel and doesn’t slide or have an overhang, enabling you to have a smooth squeegeeing experience. Replacement clips and clamps allow for easy maintenance and repairs, saving you money by preventing the need for a complete replacement.
Most squeegees come with brass clips, which are the preferred choice for many cleaners. You will likely want to match the clip brand to the squeegee brands like Ettore, Pulex, or Steccone. However, some clips work with multiple squeegees. For example, cleaners are increasingly trying out Unger’s Plastic Clips. They offer a snugger fit, work with most channels, and come with a useful storage case. Regardless of which one you try, you may want to use a little soap to help your clips slide into place more easily.
Don’t risk being caught on a job without a functional squeegee. Keeping a backup stock of clips is worth it for the minimal cost. It might just save the day.
WCR also carries specialty replacement clips for your favorite squeegees. Moerman offers long-lasting plastic end clips specifically for their Liquidator that significantly cut back on detailing work and prevent newer window cleaners from scratching frames. Their F*LIQ Clips hold the washing pad to the Liquidator channel for pole work.
The Pulex UniHandle Clips offer a similar feature set to your Pulex channels. Simply slide it on to your channel and then insert the Pulex washing pad and you have a combo tool that scrubs and squeegees. Wagtail replacement parts include the Wagtail Wing Tips for High Flyer, The Wagtail Slimline and PC Flipper Clip, and the Wagtail Power Pivot Replacement Flipper Clips.
What Spare Parts Should I Keep On Hand?
Backplates like the Ettore Brass or Sörbo Replacement are an inexpensive replacement part to keep on hand to lengthen the lifespan of your squeegees. Don’t forget to include screws and nuts in your collection. Grips like the Ettore Replacement Squeegee Grip and handles like the Sörbo Replacement Handle for Swivel Squeegee and T-Bar can also be replaced or upgraded. Remember to check for replacement options before giving up on your trusted squeegee that just needs a little love in the form of new parts.
Sörbo Replacement End Plugs work with the Sörbo channels and prevent cleaners from scratching window frames. The Sörbo End Plug Assembling Tool eliminates the possibility of damage when removing or replacing the plugs.
By understanding the benefits of these squeegee accessories and investing in quality products, you can elevate your window cleaning game and deliver exceptional results. Remember to regularly maintain and replace your accessories to ensure the proper performance and longevity of your tools.