Vaseline on brush...

[Guest]

Customer put Vaseline on his windows to stop a cat from scratching at them, his wife feeds them...

It must be oil based because it's still on the brush. I rubbed some degreaser on the brush but can still feel it.

Any ideas?

It's transferring to other windows, not good!

 

[BigFoot]

Dry cloth the brush then a bucket of hotish water and degreaser of your choice Go back and forth new dry cloth every time. That would annoy me!

 

[Iron Giant]

Had client who I am certain has sprayed wd40 on their frames about 5 months ago.

Tried a couple of times with degreaser still won't fully shift off frames so now the frames don't get done, But thankfully a quick degreaser treatment sorts out the brush but I always carry 2 brushes to swap if needed.

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[Guest]

Cheers, will detach and give a good clean after work. Thankfully I carry 2 poles

 

[Green Pro Clean Ltd]

Vaseline is petroleum jelly so yep greasy as hell. Good luck. 

 

[padman]

Try cleaning it with white spirit.

 

[Dave B]

Virosol or ubik if you have it

Although i don't rate it for fascias etc you won't get much of a stronger degreaser than virosol

 

[Marko067]

Don't you just love those customers. Not.

I got my brush contaminated with a greasy pigeon repellent gel some years ago. It nearly destroyed the brush. It was the stickiest, greasiest, messiest substance I have ever had the misfortune to get on my brush.

 

[Guest]

It congeals in cold water which is interesting

 

[Julian Noddy Dean]

tfr 20 or white spirit as said above , if out on a job and i couldnt get  w.s. i would use tooth paste

half a tube at a time , i know it sounds silly but if you run out of oil remover on a carpet cleaning job , a **** of tooth paste rubbed into the mark you can wash it all out easy 

 

[paulben]

Another use for Vasaline must tell Rodger the cabin boy to order extra .