Lol ;) Just loads of practice buddy, I'm very stubborn, if i can't squeegee something, I'll practice till i can. Before doing this would of been a no no, but now i can do it easily. I try to encourage people that with time, effort and experience you can squeegee just about anything. (Within reason lol)
A tasty start to the day 😁 Did not take you for a red wine man Peter! Id have guessed a Tennets lager or possibly a Guinness kinda fella. Exquisite pole work as always, Trad boy has some serious skills to catch up on one day.
For low trad work I'd recommend the red phantom trad pole from window cleaning warehouse. For high trad work you have a few options, the fully carbon phantom from WCW Or the ionic hydra Or you can use the Gardiner slx. The gloves are called showa thermal that I wear when it's freezing and I wear diy disposables when it's not cold.
Hey Tradman, great video and really insightful. Just had a question about the water you use, I've heard alot about filtered water in window cleaning but it looked like yours was straight from the tap? Do you have another filter built into the unit?
Ib had my moerman liquidators about 8 months niw and have been great but now im starting to go through rubbers a lot faster. In the middle the keep wearing out leaving streaks. Any ideas whats causing it
@@TradMan i was initially using red rubber with tesco dish liquid when it started to happen iv trued almost all liquids and put sift rubber on my bob but nothing changed which makes me think somehow the channel must be the culprit
There's your problem, red rubber is to grippy on the glass for liquidators. Red rubber can be hit and miss with the quality too. Try pulex or moerman soft rubber and you'll find no issues. Are you putting the soap on the applicator?
@@armymanal try putting the soap on the applicator. I can defo say the tool is fine as many use them and i myself use only liquidators without issue. If you have runny solution it won't work well either so by putting soap on the applicator it will cure the line issue. Liquidators prefer a softer rubber so things like red rubber don't work very well.
Hey m8 fellow scot trying to build up a wee windie cleaning business from strach .I used to do it in the past but I had ever worked with extension poles before as I do it old stool but alot of my customers 1st floor windows need one, so I bought the doca 12ft pole with squeegee. Practiced on own house and mmm wasn't impressed with the finish, I will need a bit more practice using it for sure but what do I do about marks detailing left to do on the high windows . Also was wondering what gloves you were using , at the moment i just have a cheap squeegee that you need spanner you lock nightmare lol. What squeegee etc would you recommend. And will the doca pole to me until whenever I can upgrade and what would you recommend I upgrade to.. Kind regards Ryan
I use a phantom pole from window cleaning warehouse. I use a Moerman Excelerator 2.0 complete with fliq washer. That tool gives 100% zero detail finish with practice. Gloves i just bought a cheap work glove of amazon as long as its waterproof 😉
Aaaah ha ha! I see what happened here. Im just glad it was warm and dry when I filmed my day. Awesome video man! I think my coworkers might have something to say to me If I wore my kilt on a ladder day. 😂
Thanks! Very kind 😊 It really depends on the job size but it can be 1 or 2 big ones or like 15-20 littler ones roughly. Also travelling time greatly affects things
@@TradMan that's cool, I am jumping in at the deep end purchasing a large round to start a window cleaning business, around 250 houses. I need to target 25 small to medium per day. Its gonna be tough but your videos are a great help learnt a lot.
I bought a moerman liquidater 2.0 felt it was to heavy kept getting stuck on the glass no matter how many times I tried I lowered my soap and even put more soap on it it was also no cutting in well it was the 14 inch so I’ve bought an unger 10 blade and no faults whatsoever
Hey trad. What rubber seems to work best for this moerman squeegees? And the channel you were using did it have stock tips or did you bend them? Thanks man.
I use moerman soft rubber especially this time of year but ettore master soft is also a good one but that takes a while to wear in. All my channels are unmodified apart from the 16 and 18 inch, I've bent them down further forwards towards the rubber as you loose pressure at the tips with slimline large channels. Only a couple of millimetres though
Thank you kindly! Took a good few days to get it right, I'm never happy with the vids and i end up deleting them and starting again, I'm my own worst critic. Thank you for taking the time out to watch, really appreciated!
Amazing video, amazing family, thank you for sharing! Still sticking to your commitment wearing kilts for raising money for Nettie. Good luck, and thanks again;)
Amazing video I felt like I was actually doing the work myself!
Superb!! 😎
Very good work the videos with a few small tips.An insight of a working day and the family full of great.:-)
The way you cleaned that velux was supernatural... Great video Peter!!
Lol ;)
Just loads of practice buddy, I'm very stubborn, if i can't squeegee something, I'll practice till i can. Before doing this would of been a no no, but now i can do it easily. I try to encourage people that with time, effort and experience you can squeegee just about anything. (Within reason lol)
A tasty start to the day 😁
Did not take you for a red wine man Peter! Id have guessed a Tennets lager or possibly a Guinness kinda fella.
Exquisite pole work as always, Trad boy has some serious skills to catch up on one day.
Haha! Yeah pal still like a nice cooked breakfast 😊
Hi mate just a quick question can you harvest rain water and filter it to clean windows to cut down water bills.
Absolutely! It will be much easier on your filtration system
Where can i get that pole and the gloves i have seen you wear by the way you are class with the pole great work
For low trad work I'd recommend the red phantom trad pole from window cleaning warehouse.
For high trad work you have a few options, the fully carbon phantom from WCW
Or the ionic hydra
Or you can use the Gardiner slx.
The gloves are called showa thermal that I wear when it's freezing and I wear diy disposables when it's not cold.
Thanks alot bud very helpful
Thanks for the video man, I'm definitely going to check out some of that gear..needing some more water retention!
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Hey Tradman, great video and really insightful. Just had a question about the water you use, I've heard alot about filtered water in window cleaning but it looked like yours was straight from the tap? Do you have another filter built into the unit?
For wfp window cleaning I have the unger hydro power on top of a tank inside the van.
For traditional window cleaning I use tap water 👌🏻
Ib had my moerman liquidators about 8 months niw and have been great but now im starting to go through rubbers a lot faster. In the middle the keep wearing out leaving streaks. Any ideas whats causing it
What rubber do you use and what cleaning solution method are you using?
@@TradMan i was initially using red rubber with tesco dish liquid when it started to happen iv trued almost all liquids and put sift rubber on my bob but nothing changed which makes me think somehow the channel must be the culprit
There's your problem, red rubber is to grippy on the glass for liquidators. Red rubber can be hit and miss with the quality too.
Try pulex or moerman soft rubber and you'll find no issues.
Are you putting the soap on the applicator?
Its happening with all rubbers now since iv had the problem i dont put liquid in applicator
@@armymanal try putting the soap on the applicator.
I can defo say the tool is fine as many use them and i myself use only liquidators without issue.
If you have runny solution it won't work well either so by putting soap on the applicator it will cure the line issue.
Liquidators prefer a softer rubber so things like red rubber don't work very well.
Fantastic you are awesome........
I appreciate the kind comment. I hope the video was useful to you.
Thank you for watching, much appreciated!
Hey m8 fellow scot trying to build up a wee windie cleaning business from strach .I used to do it in the past but I had ever worked with extension poles before as I do it old stool but alot of my customers 1st floor windows need one, so I bought the doca 12ft pole with squeegee. Practiced on own house and mmm wasn't impressed with the finish, I will need a bit more practice using it for sure but what do I do about marks detailing left to do on the high windows . Also was wondering what gloves you were using , at the moment i just have a cheap squeegee that you need spanner you lock nightmare lol. What squeegee etc would you recommend. And will the doca pole to me until whenever I can upgrade and what would you recommend I upgrade to..
Kind regards Ryan
I use a phantom pole from window cleaning warehouse.
I use a Moerman Excelerator 2.0 complete with fliq washer. That tool gives 100% zero detail finish with practice.
Gloves i just bought a cheap work glove of amazon as long as its waterproof 😉
Aaaah ha ha! I see what happened here. Im just glad it was warm and dry when I filmed my day. Awesome video man! I think my coworkers might have something to say to me If I wore my kilt on a ladder day. 😂
I was actually going to message you this week about the angles for the execelerator on velux windows.. great that it was in the video 👌
Ah well there you go buddy! Hope your well
Awesome technique on the skylight windows. Great advice with the squeegee angle and pole tip angle. Thanks Trad Man
No worries buddy, glad you enjoyed the video :)
All the best ;)
I would like to see some internal skylight cleaning.
I like your music choice.
I could never never clean the exterior skylights like that here, too much sun here in San Jose California.
Nice family
Great video as always, how many houses would you say you clean on average each day
Thanks! Very kind 😊
It really depends on the job size but it can be 1 or 2 big ones or like 15-20 littler ones roughly. Also travelling time greatly affects things
@@TradMan that's cool, I am jumping in at the deep end purchasing a large round to start a window cleaning business, around 250 houses. I need to target 25 small to medium per day. Its gonna be tough but your videos are a great help learnt a lot.
@jimbob fantastic! All the best with that. Stick in bud 😊🤜🏻🤛🏻
Lovely video Peter 👍
Cheers Tom! Glad you liked it, took days to put together lol
Beautiful day mate! Trad on.
Absolutely matey, cheers for tuning in
I bought a moerman liquidater 2.0 felt it was to heavy kept getting stuck on the glass no matter how many times I tried I lowered my soap and even put more soap on it it was also no cutting in well it was the 14 inch so I’ve bought an unger 10 blade and no faults whatsoever
It takes a bit of getting used to. I had the same problem. Turns out it was me and not the product!
15:39 is what i would call SERIOUS SKILL! Awesome video mate!
Just lots of practice buddy ;)
Thank you kindly for watching
Awesome video! These are fun to watch!
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Hey trad. What rubber seems to work best for this moerman squeegees? And the channel you were using did it have stock tips or did you bend them? Thanks man.
I use moerman soft rubber especially this time of year but ettore master soft is also a good one but that takes a while to wear in. All my channels are unmodified apart from the 16 and 18 inch, I've bent them down further forwards towards the rubber as you loose pressure at the tips with slimline large channels. Only a couple of millimetres though
Great vid thanks for all the time and effort you put into it for us 😀😀👍👍
Thank you kindly! Took a good few days to get it right, I'm never happy with the vids and i end up deleting them and starting again, I'm my own worst critic. Thank you for taking the time out to watch, really appreciated!
Why pure water and not tap water mate? Would tap water be ok?
Heya I've not seen this video I'm a long time, what's your question in reference to? Thanks
Amazing video, amazing family, thank you for sharing! Still sticking to your commitment wearing kilts for raising money for Nettie. Good luck, and thanks again;)
Thanks for watching buddy!!
what gloves do you wear and what tool belt please? good video :)
They are a neoprene glove and i wear a disposable glove inside them. The belt is a Makita belt.
Thank you for tuning in ;)
great music and good work!! 😎👍
Thanks buddy!! Much appreciated, and thank you for watching the video
Nice stuff buddy 💪
Cheers Lewis! Hope your well
Always good
Good old jam shed
Yup!
What are you gonna do when you get older " I'm gonna play with my toys" He wish hahaha.. Life is just awesome when money isn't a thing lol.
Totally true!!
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