How to choose the right cleaning solution

I love those TV commercials for Windex glass cleaners, Especially the one where the two birds are perched in a tree outside the back door of an  unsuspecting homeowner. One bird flys around to the front door and rings the doorbell. The homeowner gets up and enters his home through a rear sliding glass door ( leaving the door open behind him) After opening the front door, and seeing that nobody is there,  he turns with plans to return to  the back deck ( not knowing that in the meantime, the birds have quietly slid the glass door closed). The punch line is , of course, the homewowner  collides with the glass door! Now that’s some clean glass!  

Perhaps I like this commercial because I am in the window cleaning business or maybe it is because I myself  have walked into glass doors after cleaning them ( not seeing the glass, believing the door was open ) but the reason I bring it up is that most people go this route to clean their windows. They buy a bottle of Ammonia based window cleaner and a half dozen rolls  of  paper towels and off they go in hopes of achieving the same results that  are seen in advertisements. Unfortunately, This techniques does not work. period! 

First, who wants to breathe  in ammonia fumes all day while  cleaning windows, and second, paper towels leave behind lint, they tear, they require trees to be harvested, and they are a repeat expense that is not required.

The solution is very simple. For the average homeowner, a one time purchase of the following items will be required:

1. one (1 )  12″ rubber squeegee
2. one (1) 6″ rubber squeegee
3. six (6) recycled Huck/ surgical towels ( very important item)
4. biodegradable/ water based window cleaning soap
5. one (1) bucket ( at least 12″ wide to accomodate strip washer)
6. 6 ” straight razor tool
7. 12″ strip washer
8. extra fine (0000) steel wool pads
9. Extension Ladder
10. extension pole

Note: Depending on how often you clean your windows, the rubber portion of the squeegee  and the soap will need replacing. The average 1 quart bottle of window cleaning soap  concentrate makes 25 gallons of cleaner. Estimate one(1) gallon per cleaning  once a year and that should last approx. 25 years

All of these  items can be purchased at you local home improvement warehouse ( Lowe’s or home depot etc.)  for under $30.00. ( Ladder and extension pole will be extra but not everyone will need these to complete their cleaning job).

Tune in to my other posts where I teach how to use all of the items listed above to get those professionally clean looking windows! .You can do it…Its easy!

Please feel free to ask questions… I will respond to / answer  all comments to the best of my ability.