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HELP!!! BIRD POO WONT BUDGE!

SHAQ TULLOCH

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Hi, me again ...

so this week i have started my biggest job yet which i have been quite excited about.. THEN..

i have been cleaning the windows that are absolutely COVERED in bird poo!! its been there since last august and it just wont budge at all using my brodex brush so iv even tried wrapping round a microfibre clothe to the brush to give the poo a wipe and then brushing and rinsing like usual after but its still not perfect which is really frustrating.. what can i do to get this S*** off?

PLEASE HELP lol

(THIS IS JUST THE ONE SIDE OF THE BUILDING /emoticons/smile.png )

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Really tuffers ?lol
As a last resort.

Do you have a pump up sprayer? You could pre-spray the glass with a Virosol mix, only do say 4 windows at a time and see if that softens the :turd: up. I'll tell you what I've been using on first cleans lately, I made up a mixture of pure and Virosol and put it in a 1 litre spray bottle. I spray it on the brush, turn the water on and it works a treat. Lots of rinsing is needed though.

 
Just grab your ladder and get up there and scrape it off with a window cleaners scraper, simples.

 
Surely it's quicker putting ladders up. Just for the first clean. Why so many frightened of going up a ladder.

Another way is I glued some strong Velcro to my pole brush on the side of it & on my other brush I glued a scourer on it. Gets bird **** off & fly **** (when you can see it). But surely ladders is best rather then all that palava spraying it.

 
Dave i carry Ubik in my cheap Chinese back pack ready to roll it really helps on first cleans but with the pure have to do loads of rinsing, but has cut my first clean time down massively.

 
For me its only access I don't do ladder work but I'm sure some do but the whole idea of wfp is to stop using ladders.

 
Get one of those scraper attachments for your pole. I would try virosol first.

I avoid ladders as much as possible. Never carry them unless I know I have a gutter job etc

 
IMO you still need ladders even if you are 100% WFP. Not all windows are accessible from the ground. It's not very often that I come home and the ladders are still padlocked on the rack. But that's another argument.

 
Give it a quick rub and soak it in water move onto the next one, go back scrub it again if still some left soak it more, repeat until its gone.

Or get a ladder out.

 
If time is running out and WFP is the only option then persistence, persistence, persistence.......

Saturate it, lots of water, go over it 1,2,3 times. When you need the toilet don't go, hungry?......no time, scrub scrub scrub till your arms are about to fall off.......

The good news : it WILL come off eventually.

Good luck with it.

 
I'd be scraping it off myself. With those windows, a scraper on an extension pole will work just fine.

Brush over the glass to both soften the bird dirt and then, scrape off whilst keeping the area wet with your wfp.

 
I'd be scraping it off myself. With those windows, a scraper on an extension pole will work just fine.
Brush over the glass to both soften the bird dirt and then, scrape off whilst keeping the area wet with your wfp.
Are you sure you would put a scraper on a pole at that height? If it works it works but not sure I would have the guts or a steady enough hand to use that method.

 
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