So i am curious. When is a mop considered “dry”? As in, when do i need to redip it in my bucket or squirt water onto a window/the mop itself?
Does the boab keep the mop wet enough? I understand on hot windows or windy days the windows and mop may dry faster. But i have been practicing and noticed as my mop gets drier it gets more sudsy. Is that a good thing or is it getting too dry at that point.
So i am curious when do i know to moisten my mop again?
Also what is the difference between detailing towel and the ledge towel? Why not use 1 for both?
this is totally a personal judgement.
if you’re making a mess all over it’s too wet, if it dries before you can squeegee it off it’s too dry (or you’re too slow).
i don’t think anyone uses a boab to keep solution in your mop would drip like crazy every time you took it out. i use a squirt bottle to add water.
for me it varies because of situation. really dirty window requires more solution, swivel squeegee requires more soap.
if window pretty clean less solution can mean less clean up at bottom.
even the kind of dirt, there are other threads mentioning how windows kill suds even though on the window before your solution was perfect.
lately i have been using the method used by others here, my squirt bottle has water and soap is applied to scrubber.
As long as I can squeegee off and don’t lose slip, it is good.
As far as towels, I just use hucks. One for detailing and ledges. Once it gets to dirty or wet, it becomes just sills and ledges and I start with a fresh one for just detailing. I find this keeps the detail towel clean and dry longer.
Nothing wrong with using just one, but you will find yourself going through more towels and or leaving marks more easily.
I will be doing storefronts. And noticed in my practicing that my side/top detailing isnt much and if i squeegee off the ledge its minimal. So wasnt sure if it was a big no no to use 1 or if i should just carry a few with me…
I had a guy last year who I subbed for a day when I was flat out, he developed his own way of doing things from bits and pieces he had found on youtube…
This wasn’t a good thing as he was very hard to tell what to do he believed that his way was better and my way was just that “my way” when the way I do it was the right way and his was was flat out the wrong way.
However to get back to the question he didn’t use a bucket PERIOD, well not one with water in it, he used a spray bottle with solution in it and a boab set up.
I noticed IMMEDIATELY he was using a bone dry mop and was squirting his solution on the glass then rubbing it with his mop then trying to squeegee it, it wasn’t working out well for him, I ended up washing the house well 2 houses and all the outside windows and then had to touch up 10 of his internal windows due to the fact he didn’t use enough water, he took 4 hours to do the inside of 25 panes of glass of half i redid in 5 mins.
He still argued after about his way vs my way, problem was he isn’t a window cleaner as he does all cleaning so doesn’t get the hours that are needed to properly learn how to clean the glass.
Even with traditional window cleaning water is a very important part in cleaning of the glass, a right mix of soap and water is needed if whats on the mop is more suds than water your quality will suffer sharply.
My definition of a detail towel is one that only gets used on dry glass the other is used to remove the water, once you contaminate you detail towel you cannot use it on glass without it leaving residue like a smear.
Have to agree. Need plenty of water to clean glass properly. Inside I dip every set and ring put. Outside I dip and bring the water with. Spray bottles? Nah
I seem to only need to wipe the top, sides and ledge(after squeegee the majority of water off). So if i use 1 towel til it gets pretty wet and then get a new towel…is that…wrong?
If you were working for me i would say yes, but your not so you can do it however you like but if you are using it on frames then its pretty much contaminated so unless your finding a small area of your towel that is bone dry and clean to detail you are going to be smearing the glass.
Personally I only use scrim to detail glass, so it never gets wet as I will use the huck to remove the water on the bottom lip prior to detailing the glass.
Ok then my question should be “what is detailing?” if i streak or have a spot ill just redo the window. ANY time i have tried to wipe a spot off a window, ive ALWAYS smeered lol
@BaBz Brenton your sleeve/wash wand needs to have enough solution on it to agitate and suspend the dirt in the solution so the rubber can remove the dirt from the glass.
Regarding mop wetness, I’ve found less is more. The least water you can get away with and still clean effectively and have necessary slip is best so your rags stay dry longer. That amount varies by situation. Yesterday, it was so hot i needed the mop to be drenched with water practically pouring out of it for the exterior windows i was cleaning in the sun to stay wet long enough to even squeegee off. On the other side of the spectrum, I’ve cleaned the entire interior of some large homes with one dunk in the bucket that i then wrung out three times first.
I would say, almost dogmatically, that you must have two rags at all times. One highly absorbent one for slop at the bottom. One that’s glass only for detailing the edges and little specs that didn’t come off. Even if you use a small squeegee for the bottom slop, you still need a second rag for frames and you can’t use the squeegee trick for insides so again you need a rag.
