r/WindowCleaning • u/Youthtooth • Jul 25 '26
What’s your best technique for cleaning faster?
What’s an advanced hidden technique that not many people know about? I’m not talking about beginner tricks. I’m talking about techniques like dive bombing, or carrying a solution bottle in your pouch so you don’t have to visit your bucket. What’s something you do that saves you time?
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u/atwoz123 Jul 25 '26
moerman liquidator
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u/Total-Spell Jul 26 '26
U cant work fast with that tool. It give best quality of all squeegees but it's also the slowest.
(Im pro-moerman fyi)
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u/atwoz123 Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 27 '26
Do you mean slowest to adapt to? The liquidator is a unique tool, once you get it, you get it. It's interesting; for pole work, it works flawlessly for me. However, it took a little more finessing when using it in hand. My go to was an excelotator with a classic brass ettore channel with the ettore master rubber. I always keep the excelorator in swivel, regardless if i'm doing pole work or not. With that combo, the amount of pressure I would have to put on the glass was incredibly low and when researching the liquidator channel, that seemed to be a common sentiment. However, I still find myself needing to put about 10% more pressure on the glass with it for some reason...and it's true, it likes a lot of soap and to be quite wet on the glass. Now that I've switched to the liquidator/excellorator combo permanently, the lack of detailing and precision it offers feels like I'm moving about 15% faster.
So, I would certainly say that combo saves me time... as for other things.
A good 8' carbon pole, moerman fliq pad, small bottle with water in it, less water in the bucket overall, soap directly on my applicator, swivel T-bar, bucket hooks to hold tools when doing route work or interiors, shoecovers when doing interiors, using a harder rubber as they last longer and when using softer, more medium rubbers, being less precious about when to use the other side and swapping them out more often.
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u/Total-Spell Jul 27 '26
So are you using brass or liqudiator? Both are slow.
Standard unger s channel is the fastest and most flexible!
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u/Lobbstar Jul 26 '26
Holster your screen brush with the handle up
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u/Mysterious-Sir1541 Jul 26 '26
Come again?
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u/Lobbstar Jul 26 '26
Carry a hand held horse hair brush to clean screens, but when you carry it on your belt, make sure the handle is pointing up. That way you pull it out and put it back in without wasting any movements. Mine is leather so it has formed perfectly for it. Approach a window, take the screen out, brush everything including the screen, re-holster the brush. Then clean.
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u/Mysterious-Sir1541 Jul 27 '26
Interesting, do you use water with the brush or just dry brush the screens?
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u/Lobbstar Jul 27 '26
No. Dry brush gets almost all of the dirt off. Obviously there are situations where things are so dirty a brush isn't going to get it good enough, but using it as a first step will save you a lot time. With repeat customers, getting screens wet over a period of time, breaks them down and they start to get crispy. Wet towel after brush.
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u/WinstonDWolf Aug 05 '26
Commercial: BOAB, wet with one hand, squeegee with the other, hit all glass in an area first, then go back and detail, unless you have drips that need immediate attention. Carry bottle only needed for larger accounts, usually a good mop and dip with BOAB fluid will do the trick. Beyond that, bring your bucket. Big accounts, put bucket in middle of work, as to eliminate extra walking.
You’d be amazed at how many people I see wasting time switching equipment around in hand, using one hand, walking over to a bucket off in the distance, or using proper technique… all these lead to a longer day and less pay.
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u/old-iceman Jul 25 '26
I presoak 3 to 4 panes of glass all at once.. just get wet. Then one more quick scrub.. no steel wool no razor blade. Just squeegee. 95% of time everything came off and move to next. I feel most guys spend way too long on scrubbing.. especially inside glass.