Nice towel reference. You always have to know where your towel is. We don’t get many ravenous bug blatter beasts of trall in the southwest tho.
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Ha Ha Ha I was wondering if anyone would get the reference. Douglas Adams, great writer. Too bad they can’t make a good movie or TV series of his works’.
You made me smile on that one.
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Resi: 14" Liquidator/14" Ettore swivel.
Bought an 18" Ettore swivel several months ago but got more pressure with the 14". Most of my jobs are infrequent cleans and require more pressure than just wetting.
I have an 8" and 10" washer that are rarely used. The infrequent French panes are usually on a door or two so scrubbing with the end of the 14" or a frame rag is easier than carrying an extra washer. Then squeegee with the 6" Ettore.
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That is all I use. The size of the panes I clean are ideal for a 10" scrubber.
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Nice business plug in the photo there. 
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K so finally tried out a 12" strip washer for residential (I had one all along from my first ever equipment purchase!). It was great. What you may lose in surface area compared to an 18" you make up for in being able to move it faster and being able to easily wet the odd smaller window. Plus, you have the added benefits of better scrubbing power and less strain as others have mentioned. And for me it was nice to lighten the belt (I’m already struggling as it is to keep my belt set-up from dragging down my pants 
). Only sort of downside I’ve noticed so far is that it holds less water of course, but the handy dandy squirt bottle solves that problem anyway.
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I told you so.
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now that you’ve figured that out better make everyone a sammich.
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I use a 14. Much better in opinion.
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Almost always an 18" for me (except for cutups). Strip washer is for wetting the glass, not scrubbing. That’s what a scrub pad is for
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Great video Alex!
My favorite one you made so far is your cutup one your like a machine in that one. 
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That video is very detailed. Is this the quality and time spent on each window?
This is another factor in price, time spent per window. Some are spending much more than others just for the amount of detail necessary or not.
Very good work.
I use the same scrubbers too.
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Those windows hadn’t been cleaned in years.
6 or 12 month maintenance cleans go much faster.
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So those are storm windows?
They look pretty unpleasant to clean.
Can someone explain please what are “cut up’s”?
I use 18" (all my T-Bars are swivel handle) 95% of the time and a 14" approx 5% of the time, for residential. Use Pulex Micro Tiger sleeves outside, and use Mooreman microfiber sleeves inside (just brilliant water retention and virtually no drips). Though I find I’m using Mooreman sleeves outside alot.
Have two BOAB’s (Pulex Tubex holster). One with outside gear, one with inside squeegees etc. Just unclip and switch over as necessary.
After reading this thread I’m gonna use my 14" T-Bar much more, after seeing the pressure per-sqaure inch statistics and RSI (repetitive strain injury) comments. Sounds like good comon sense to me.
Was using 18" squeegee for everything the last 20 years but since 2017 am using much more assorted sizes, and preferring 14" for 50-60% of the time now.
Using Liquidator channels (with Facelift RazorRed rubber) and Excelerator and Ettore Contour Pro+ handles for deep filled inside windows. After six months of hard graft perfecting technique am reaching new standards of precision and I’m at the point where I’m nearly not detailing at all. I could just walk away 80% of the time and no one would no the difference. But I consider myself a detailing fanatic so I wipe the edges anyway.
Bucket outside, squirt bottle inside. Use long ladder, but Excelerator and 5 meter pole often 2nd story. Used to use back flip but find Excelerator awesome. But still use backflip as necessary on narrow panels etc.
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If you don’t know what cutups are, then be thankful. In various parts of the world they’re referred to as French Panes, divided lites, or true divides.
These windows hadn’t been cleaned for a couple years, hence all the scrubbing:
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Cut ups is window cleaner slang. Most people know them as mulleons or don’t know what they are called. Some will call them french windows because they know about fench doors.
Down under they are called colonial windows.
We call them 1776 revolutionary freedom windows.
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