miwindowguy - Satisfying Techniques and Useful Tips

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@matttherealtorbailey7692 10 ай бұрын

Cutting down the mountain! Great content! I do door knocking for Real Estate anyways, so I've been thinking about picking this skill up. Your videos are so inspirational! Ive got 40 year old knees too! 🤣

@miwindowguy 10 ай бұрын

Any questions, feel free to ask. I have been doing this for 20 years. I love my career, everything about it. At this point I’ve done pretty much every aspect of the trade.

@marciaogden8525 7 ай бұрын

We have never been able to get all the hard water spots off the downstairs windows. Using quad zero steel wool is genius. We just mixed half a bucket of water with maybe a half a cup of white vinegar, and some hefty squirts of Dawn dish soap. We dipped a rag in that and wiped the windows, then rubbed them with the steel wool. It perfectly cleaned the hard water spots off, completely gone. Next time we will get set up with squeegees and a squeeze bottle. That would be less messy. Thanks for sharing your experience and knowledge! We are loving our clean windows.

@miwindowguy 7 ай бұрын

That’s great! Just remember always use 0000, nothing coarser. Do not use a green scouring pad. Only the blue ones and white ones are safe for glass. None of them are safe on tint films though so do a test spot to make sure you don’t have tint film before doing the whole window

@FunFiction704 10 ай бұрын

did you start off door knocking? how did you market/advertise, any tips would help, Thanks!

@miwindowguy 10 ай бұрын

I started learning the trade at a different company 20 years ago. Over those years I’ve learned and perfected a craft that I would have never thought would become my passion. I got good at it, then friends and family started asking. I started from there. Learn how to do this job well, do a good job for the people who pay you, and it grows from there. I’m almost completely referrals

@bt55-123 10 ай бұрын

a simple clear nice webside, than google ads (the minimum: 2 Euro per day = 60 euro month ), make perfect friedly professionel work...so the clients stay and call again. Now i start my 4. year and i am full booked for the complete year,( no more google ads) you can do it also when you behavior and communication is top professionell with every client.

@Aglassact77 6 ай бұрын

Good “Old school” techniques. It’s amazing how many washers don’t know some of these, and what they’re called either. Good video 👍 Dave “The window ninja” 🥷

@miwindowguy 6 ай бұрын

@@Aglassact77 “window wetters”

@TCM3273 6 ай бұрын

Just for information you can absolutely use #000 steel wool. It will not scratch glass. It has been widely used in both window cleaning and the painting trade for decades with no issues.

@miwindowguy 6 ай бұрын

@@TCM3273 I don’t know how “widely” it’s used. I’d be willing to bet it’s exceedingly rare because it’s improper. Been doing this a long time and it’s always been the same, extra fine and nothing coarser

@bt55-123 10 ай бұрын

great work! i make mostly s or mountain :-) it was very interesting: on the side pull you first make a line from top to bottom! That makes the side pull very efectiv. i will try this on monday. You explain in a calm way without hurry. Thanks for this great video and i wish you happy days. Greetings from Germany 🙂

@miwindowguy 10 ай бұрын

A small small technique tip that makes a lot of difference with side pulls. Do that swipe on the side to clear the lane. With each pull make sure the rubber is dry, and start a couple millimeters OFF OF THE FRAME. Set the rubber against the glass and pull. If you try to butt the rubber back against the frame when you pull the rubber will curl and kick off water from the edge of the frame a bit causing you to have to rewind the edge. Maybe I’ll do a technique video on each of these different strokes to show people how I do them

@bt55-123 10 ай бұрын

@@miwindowguy thanks for explaining so detailed, very good!

@gergovarga321 8 ай бұрын

I'm a rope access window cleaner, we never use steel wool as the frames tend to be sensitive for damage. If there's any harder spot we use a hard sponge or you can get scrubby mops too. But we're very time sensitive so we only use them on clearly visible spots, never the whole surface. No backseating, just pointing out other options. If I would do private houses like this one I would also make the job as perfectly as humaly possible, but when you have a lot of windows youre cutting time where you can whitout comprising the results too much.

@miwindowguy 8 ай бұрын

For sure. Commercial work is a game of volume. It’s about cranking out glass quickly. Luckily though a lot of times commercial facades can have spandrel glass that no one can see out of. Do you guys ever use boar hair brushes or abrasive mops?

@vcash1112 10 ай бұрын

Here's a pro tip from a master window cleaner, you don't have to steel wool every window. Its a waste of time and you make money when you are fast. Use less soap,

@miwindowguy 10 ай бұрын

1) Correct. I tell you why I use the steel wool in this case, because these are basement windows that get a fair bit of mineral deposit. 2) I’m plenty fast. 3) Excess soap added strictly for illustration purposes. 20 years of experience. I’ve got this ;)

@miwindowguy 10 ай бұрын

Plus, if I tell you that day was “new rubber day” then maybe you’ll understand why I was a little soap heavy haha

@vcash1112 10 ай бұрын

@@miwindowguy Good job nevertheless. Respect to my fellow window cleaners.

@miwindowguy 10 ай бұрын

@@vcash1112 it’s all love brotha! I don’t care if I’ve been doing this for 20 years, I’m still LEARNING and I always will be. Stay humble. I don’t know about you but I’ve had plenty of times in my career where some random new guy will just do something that makes perfect sense that you never once considered. That’s what I love about what I do. I can always change.

@miwindowguy 9 ай бұрын

So I tried something I heard about only briefly when I first started. Docking the corners of your rubber. Holy smokes what a difference that makes. I was thinking to myself how a well worn rubber is the best for using in my Zero, and I realized it was because the corners don’t snag when you are hitting the frame from an angle. I then remembered how someone told me about guys clipping the corner of their rubber. Tried it and it worked perfectly. No “break in” period on new rubber day! Always learning always a student

@Ryzza5 6 ай бұрын

Where'd you get the squeeze water bottle from?

@miwindowguy 6 ай бұрын

@@Ryzza5 a.co/d/4WD4ALa

@viq234 6 ай бұрын

Are all these steps ok for mirrors?

@ZayTucson 7 ай бұрын

I like that bottle solution so you dont have to keep going back to your bucket. Is it just water and soap or just water to keep the scrubber wet?

@ninjaproclean3433 9 ай бұрын

3rd and 4th are my most used techniques

@ozdizzuddin4729 10 ай бұрын

Bro nice video.what model camera u use to record?

@miwindowguy 10 ай бұрын

This was shot on a GoPro Hero 9

@ozdizzuddin4729 10 ай бұрын

@@miwindowguy i see.thank q sir.

@jarrodbarkley9061 8 ай бұрын

Very interesting! Would you recommend using a magic eraser sponge for bad hard water deposits (and on shower doors) or do they scratch the glass?

@miwindowguy 8 ай бұрын

Magic erasers (look up melamine sponge for cheaper prices for the same product) usually break apart pretty quickly on any rough surface (including heavily mineral deposited glass). We usually use magic erasers for silicone removal. That’s where they really shine. For mineral deposit you’ll always have to be more aggressive. Steel wool or even chemicals are really all you have going for you when it comes to shower glass.

@jarrodbarkley9061 8 ай бұрын

@@miwindowguy Good to know, thank u!

@Mobius1_ 7 ай бұрын

Can You use steel wool on vinyl windows?

@miwindowguy 7 ай бұрын

The steel wool is used on the glass. You don’t really want to be using it on frames.

@cadenyoungblood427 7 ай бұрын

What is the solution you have in the bottle? Is it just soap and water? If so how do you know the consistency?

@miwindowguy 7 ай бұрын

My 5 gallon bucket has fresh water with a healthy glub glub of Dawn soap. The water bottle is likewise filled with water and a decent squirt of Dawn is added to that. This makes my bucket soapy but very diluted. The bottle is soapy but more concentrated. When I’m in a customers house I rarely have to return to the bucket because the bottle has the soapy concentrate. When indeed to add water I just do a quick run under a sink somewhere in the house and continue working.

@tomhocking5606 8 ай бұрын

Just started a company last August. Trying to figure out why people still squeegee exterior windows when we have water fed poles? Aren’t WFPs way faster?

@miwindowguy 8 ай бұрын

Waterfed poles are merely a tool in the tool box. It has a time and it has a place. It is rarely if ever the tool you should reach for during the first time you do a house. Your goal with that initial trad cleaning is to get the glass as clean as humanly possible, then sell a maintenance contract and few times a year using the waterfed. You will never succeed in this business without nose to glass skills unless you are prepared to clean the outside only on people’s houses and even then you’ll struggle because if you do WFP only without the prep work, your fighting a losing battle

@tomhocking5606 8 ай бұрын

@@miwindowguy thanks for the great info, as I am a soft washing guy starting out, do you think the softwash is enough to replace a squeegee and get that initial clean before using a WFP?

@miwindowguy 8 ай бұрын

@@tomhocking5606 there are no shortcuts available. Just like in pressure washing and soft washing the pole and brush must come out…so must the mop and squeegee, and if you are a soft washing company it’s even MORE important that you use a mop and squeegee

@jamesw.3491 8 ай бұрын

@@miwindowguy Spoken like someone who lives in a bubble or under a rock. I have been in business 11 years. I can tell you that I do MOST every house, even first times, with a WFP. The difference is I use a brush with a bronze wool insert. Never a problem, never sub par results. I can also tell you that steel wool RUSTS as you use it. Meaning that in as little as 30 minutes, it will start to rust. Rust scratches glass. Yes, squeegee skills are necessary. No, it's NOT necessary to do every first time with squeegees. Your success it not based on skills/tools alone, but your KNOWLEDGE of what tools to use and where, as well as the skills with those tools.

@miwindowguy 8 ай бұрын

@@jamesw.3491 proper tool for the proper application. Your mileage may vary. I suspect the popularity of WFP (which I’ve used quite extensively and do appreciate) has nothing at all to do with the results your customers see. It has to do with it being easier for you and it’s an equalizer between business owners and a high turnover rate. It allows them to make “window cleaners” with minimal investment in to training.

@entertainmenttruelove3275 10 ай бұрын

I'm more fond of the "Z", then the 'mountain'. Great ASMR content.

@miwindowguy 10 ай бұрын

Z is a very good method when you are doing team work, one guy wets and the other guys just comes from behind and slays them with an appropriate size channel and the Z. It’s satisfying to do much less watchz

@MrBill-rs3do 6 ай бұрын

Straight down appears faster and easier

@miwindowguy 5 ай бұрын

@@MrBill-rs3do it’s interesting you say this. I now have really gotten the hang of a quicker straight pull technique that is faster still. It may be the fastest movement I do. I’ll make a video

@pintorthepintor3964 10 ай бұрын

What is your fav?

@miwindowguy 10 ай бұрын

Cutting down the mountain is super satisfying to do and you can usually finish off without leaving much water left to detail! It’s especially useful with a pole.