Good quality scrim

[ptwindows]

Does anyone know where I can get some good quality scrim? the new stuff ive bought hardly absorbs any water?

Cheers

 

[Smurf]

Did you boil it to break it in first?

 

[cheapncheerful]

yeh I had some of that...weird stuff...but unfortunately mr taytay stopped me from buying scrim.....I now use my taytay cloth...or suppose its called microfibre..

but I still use scrim for sils and have put three gud uns away for a nostalgia trip ..../emoticons/biggrin.png

I was very lucky to find a full roll off ebay ...wish I could get another..I just love the smell and feel ...I miss it...

 

[boarcity]

unger scrim takes a few washes and uses Before it starts to work. probably at least 4 washes .

and each batch varies , i bought a few last year took weeks to break in -then were good

 

[windowsurfer]

I found one of my scrims at a shop that I do every 2 weeks, I thought it was a piece of cardboard, then I thought heh, is that a scrim, yes it was, it had been driven over a good few times. I threw on the back of the car, then forgot it was there, drove several miles, it was still there, thats what makes a good scrim, loyalty.

I have found new scrims are really annoying, fibres come off all the time, until they are washed several times. Ive got unger scrims.

 

[cheapncheerful]

yep me found one over the road nicely sitting waiting for me.../emoticons/biggrin.png

 

[norm]

scrim is like windys

older they get eh more wrinkly they become

eh and more mature and broken in

 

[boarcity]

id like to go on a tour round a scrim factory. somewhere i read that the unger mill is in deepest darkest europe and that scrim is not woven on a regular loom ,so id like to see it for myself .

couple of yrs ago i was in the windowcleancentre store in downtown ipswich, jus browsing and i happened to see a pallet load of grade A Unger scrim , so i leaned on it a few seconds, then i moved off . a minute or so later the store owner appeared from out the back and asked did i want to buy a palletload of scrim. At that point i realized he had been watching me thru a peep hole in the wall/ or possibly a 2 way mirror!

 

[norm]

:specs

 

[Eviestevie]

Does anyone know where I can get some good quality scrim? the new stuff ive bought hardly absorbs any water?
Cheers

Boil it!then boil it again!then boil again a thousand times till it's almost see thru bang it radiator then u have a good scrim

 

[Dave B]

Or just buy microfibre that works straight off the shelf

 

[Eviestevie]

Or just buy microfibre that works straight off the shelf

Hates microfibre for detailing doesn't soak up the water and gets wet 2 quick use in on sills tho

 

[Dave B]

You must be using the wrong ones

I can use 2 for a whole days work and 1 of my old ones for a sill cloth

Did about 9 houses before i swapped them over yesterday