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What do the trad lads find to be the best squeegee rubber for them?

I have some syr from the little diy shop up the road when i needed some urgently

Not bad but a bit hard

I used to use only that years ago then discovered unger soft

That was back in the days of cold brass handles and channels and scrim

 
So what your all saying is...

Pulex for cheapskates,

Attore for pro's,

Unger's good too though,

But the green ones are No, no's.

(It's a wee poem! )

That's Ettore, not attore there folks, sorry!!

 
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Hi Jimroot. My friend uses Ettore soft, but says they wear quicker than hard. Are soft better in the 'less detailing needed' department?

 
Hi, sorry I can't help at all as I'm starting out too! Davey and boarcity are among the experienced traditional folk to answer that.

I should get it through the post tomorrow though so I can practice and post my impressions, but it will have been the only rubber I'll have tried

 
i pefer soft rubbers there were quicker but lots of glass is not flat an has like pits an a hard rubber will not get the soap off on these windows but soft melts on the glass an wrks mch beta i think also hard rubbers chip easy an there is nuffing worse than a chip as it leves lines i use a 55cm channel on shop fronts so soft rubbers is essential just my view ofcorse

 
Green by name and green by nature but would not consider touching Unger Green.

Had a strip in my 14 inch and destroyed it in a day, complained to my supplier and they sent me another strip on the house, destroyed that the next day.

Don't care how many improvements they make to it I wont buy it again. We use Pulex just because it's reliable, going to be trying some of this Moreman rubber as the hype seems to be it is worth giving it a go.

But is it a simple as preference?

 
i needed a rubber for my workers, a decent reliable rubber cheap enough to not fret about how many they used and i wanted plenty of it .

i tried rubber from them all [except ettore ,im not lord flippin rothschild av u seen how much a gross of ettore comes in at? ]

and ,Moerman came up trumps for me

 
ettore r like £50 for 10 36inch langths :eek: but there very good as long as u get a good batch lol i clean shop fronts 3 mornings a week 10 hours work a week with the same squeege an 1 rubber last 2 months i turn the rubber over after 1 month not bad realy considering wat u can urn in that time it seems a lot on paper when u buy rubbers but if u wrk out wat u urn there prity mch chip as chips

 
I have used hard in the past and it kept getting little nicks in it. .think it is too brittle

Unger soft.for me for compromise of price and quality but am going to try moerman

They have 125 years experience making rubber for floor squeegees so i reckon they know a thing or two

Worth trying anyway as anyone i know who has tried it likes it

 
the lewi rubbers r cheep i may try these next u can get 10 42inch langths for £25.68 the 36inch langths r out of stock so they must b populer

 
Hi all, just a comment on turning over the rubber.

I've tried turning it over when it's done on one side, but it's always very Nicky on the reverse, even worse than the original side I've been using, is it the rubber, or could it be the channel.

Ps. Have dropped channel maybe 10 times over the 8 years I've used it. It's an unger ergo grip green handle stainless steel.

If get new channel, which would you recommend?

P.p.s. Has anyone reviewed the unger ninja? Maybe fancy trying it myself?

 
I've been using sir blades for 10 years now and never had a problem , my grandad first put me on to this brand he used it for 20+ With no problems

 
As previously said by daveyboy

I aso use soft unger (must be soft) its not only cheap but its sold in a cleaning shop litterally a 1 minute drive from where i live!

But i think ettore soft has the edge but it costs more.

I also have recently discovered u can stretch the unger quite succesfully once the edges are worn and get another life from it with a small trim.

 
i read somewhere that how the make rubber is 2 strips moulded together like this o----o then they cut it down the middle o-- --o
Thats right, ive seen it before its cut, polz n bladz showed me some a few months back.

 
Thats right, ive seen it before its cut, polz n bladz showed me some a few months back.
this makes me think that the main difference between good rubber and bad is all down to how sharp the cut is . this could be the reason that theres a bad batch of rubber now n then. rubber was cut with a duff blade,

on a friday afternoon praps

 
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