damn milky streaks on old windows again

[ks789]

grrr. blinkin milky white run off still happening even after windows have been done several times before. can it just keep happening? or should it eventually stop? as i feel bad having to explain it to the customer. Of course, this never happens with pvc frames, but many of you will know of this issue with old painted wooden framed windows. Does rinsing even more help? or is it just something that will keep happening. Proper pain I know that.

 

[Pjj]

Clean the whole window let it dry then do glass only might help , anodised aluminium windows can do the same thing 

 

[Bart90]

grrr. blinkin milky white run off still happening even after windows have been done several times before. can it just keep happening? or should it eventually stop? as i feel bad having to explain it to the customer. Of course, this never happens with pvc frames, but many of you will know of this issue with old painted wooden framed windows. Does rinsing even more help? or is it just something that will keep happening. Proper pain I know that.

As Pjj says or sometimes I will have the water off  when cleaning the frames and just brush over them and then avoid the top seal when i clean the glass ?

 

[ks789]

Clean the whole window let it dry then do glass only might help , anodised aluminium windows can do the same thing 

Its tricky, im doing this big old house tomorrow and It wont dry this weather, also its the small french/georgian panes. i was hoping eventually it would stop, but I cant see it. Cant be dried off by hand, too high up etc. Think they really need to repaint/gloss the frames but there you go. I think with properties like this, where it keeps happening, just have to say take it or leave it. but I cant see them getting a tradder, too high and dodgy.

 

[Pjj]

Its tricky, im doing this big old house tomorrow and It wont dry this weather, also its the small french/georgian panes. i was hoping eventually it would stop, but I cant see it. Cant be dried off by hand, too high up etc. Think they really need to repaint/gloss the frames but there you go. I think with properties like this, where it keeps happening, just have to say take it or leave it. but I cant see them getting a tradder, too high and dodgy.

We do a few big houses with some really mankey windows I generally find once I have given them a real good scrubb ( wooden painted sash windows ) rinse and then do the glass again after the first clean they arnt to bad , we certainly dont get marks on the glass , maybe just try doing the glass ,and the frames every few months ?. 

 

[ks789]

We do a few big houses with some really mankey windows I generally find once I have given them a real good scrubb ( wooden painted sash windows ) rinse and then do the glass again after the first clean they arnt to bad , we certainly dont get marks on the glass , maybe just try doing the glass ,and the frames every few months ?. 

Sounds a plan mate. You know, some of these places, the puttys like decades old, you got to go real careful or bits of it come away etc. Makes me laugh really, the old fading glory of empire lol

 

[Pjj]

Sounds a plan mate. You know, some of these places, the puttys like decades old, you got to go real careful or bits of it come away etc. Makes me laugh really, the old fading glory of empire lol

Yes I know what you mean especialy windows that are in the sun a lot the putty dries out and then you clean the windows and out comes great chunks of the stuff???

 

[Chris33]

Do all then let glass dry and rinse again now, but rinse accurately an inch below top of glass so you dont catch anything from the frame at all.

Water on half way up window and gradually increase upto an inch below glass, keep jets very close to glass here so get no over spray 

 

[Pjj]

Do all then let glass dry and rinse again now, but rinse accurately an inch below top of glass so you dont catch anything from the frame at all.

Water on half way up window and gradually increase upto an inch below glass, keep jets very close to glass here so get no over spray 

Totally agree , pencil jets work fine on jobs like this but avoid fans ???

 

[ks789]

Totally agree , pencil jets work fine on jobs like this but avoid fans ???

Thats handy, only got pencil. I wonder if this issue is worse in summer when it dries real quick. 

 

[Pjj]

Thats handy, only got pencil. I wonder if this issue is worse in summer when it dries real quick. 

The quicker it dries the less less chance of getting dirty runs , 

 

[ks789]

The quicker it dries the less less chance of getting dirty runs , 

ah, not good news for tomorrow then. Will do my best but hope its cloudy for weeks on end so they cant see it. ?

 

[Pjj]

ah, not good news for tomorrow then. Will do my best but hope its cloudy for weeks on end so they cant see it. ?

Just try doing the glass , by the time you have done the whole property the first windows should be drying look at the top of each pain of glass if that’s ok then the rest of the pain will dry ok , good luck with it some jobs can be troublesome for no apparent reason 

 

[Martyn]

I find modern paint to be a problem for this, fortunately most of our work is upvc.

 

[Pjj]

This is a job we do 8 weekly the frames are as rotten as a pair but they want them cleaning the glass looks good just the frames are horrendous 

 

[ks789]

This is a job we do 8 weekly the frames are as rotten as a pair but they want them cleaning the glass looks good just the frames are horrendous 

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hey that is a bad'un. one day you'll turn up to work and the whole place has collapsed ?

 

[Part Timer]

This is a job we do 8 weekly the frames are as rotten as a pair but they want them cleaning the glass looks good just the frames are horrendous 

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Bloody hell, didn't know you cleaned chicken coops as well ?

 

[scottish cleaning service]

Aye, its only the paint that's holding it together. I cleaned one like that and my brush got full of paint flecks, never again.