Vision or Sparkle?

[mark m]

Thanks for your feedback ,it is unlike any other additive and i am glad you tried it most who try it can't put it down

 

[Iron Giant]

Thanks for your feedback ,it is unlike any other additive and i am glad you tried it most who try it can't put it down

I can definitely put it down, I don't use it every day but the one thing it has been helping with more so this week as well as the last few months is after a storm a number of my jobs usually near trees the glass seems to be getting a film on it the likes which I haven't seen in the past, it's almost greasy and won't shift with just cold pure water,

I cleaned 21 jobs yesterday and most of them had this film on the glass either just on one side of the house or both it seems to be becoming more of an issue the more storms we get, also if I haven't added it to my tank before I've left home I can easily add it to my tank and mix into the water by hand on a job, which has been a real bonus for me.


Additives won't be everyone just like hot water ain't, we all use what makes our jobs easier and benefits our working day.

 

[tench0771]

I’ve had the same greasy glass from storms I think it’s from all the dry ice and metals cems there spraying in the skys to create clouds and rain been looking in to it this year and it’s shocking what’s happening

 

[Pjj]

I’ve had the same greasy glass from storms I think it’s from all the dry ice and metals cems there spraying in the skys to create clouds and rain been looking in to it this year and it’s shocking what’s happening

Same here but hot pure removes the lot no problem

 

[Iron Giant]

I’ve had the same greasy glass from storms I think it’s from all the dry ice and metals cems there spraying in the skys to create clouds and rain been looking in to it this year and it’s shocking what’s happening

No idea about the cloud seeding, a mate of mine lives in big house and just one side gets effected and worse than I have ever seen, but there is 50ft trees in his garden so I put it down to something coming off the trees.

 

[kevinc250]

@Iron Giant have you considered using the peri pump stystem?, its a way that you can turn on and off using additives from job to job, it'll save you swirling round stuff in the tank for one or more jobs.

 

[tench0771]

Same here but hot pure removes the lot no problem

Yes just takes longer

 

[Pjj]

Yes just takes longer

Will take you far longer trying to rinse the bubble bath off the glass

 

[Iron Giant]

@Iron Giant have you considered using the peri pump stystem?, its a way that you can turn on and off using additives from job to job, it'll save you swirling round stuff in the tank for one or more jobs.

I had a quick web search but didn't come up with anything conclusive relating to wfp, please enlighten me.

To add the swirling in the tank on the job I mentioned was needed just because I realised there was an issue with the windows, it was a bungalow so it was easily spotted, the thing is with this greasy film you just don't know which jobs it's going to be an issue with more so on high level windows.

 

[Pjj]

I had a quick web search but didn't come up with anything conclusive relating to wfp, please enlighten me.

To add the swirling in the tank on the job I mentioned was needed just because I realised there was an issue with the windows, it was a bungalow so it was easily spotted, the thing is with this greasy film you just don't know which jobs it's going to be an issue with more so on high level windows.

I think you get a feel for it either the glass and dirt is repelling the water or it doesn’t and you see the dirt going down the window if that makes sense

 

[ched999uk]

I had a quick web search but didn't come up with anything conclusive relating to wfp, please enlighten me.

To add the swirling in the tank on the job I mentioned was needed just because I realised there was an issue with the windows, it was a bungalow so it was easily spotted, the thing is with this greasy film you just don't know which jobs it's going to be an issue with more so on high level windows.

I'm assuming he means a peristaltic pump. Basically the liquid is contained within a flexible tube that has rollers to push the fluid out. I'm guessing that you could add a Tee into your reel hose connection and a 1 way valve on the tank outlet, that way you could pump the additive into your reel hose when required. I'm not sure how much pure you would have to push out of the reel hose before the additive starts to come out but it's a fairly easy calc. Not sure how you would work out the mix ratio though.
I wonder if there is a gap in the market for some sort of venturi device that connects between the pole and reel hose when you want to use an additive - bit like an X jet on a pressure washer. Where is @Skxawng when you need him

 

[kevinc250]

I'm assuming he means a peristaltic pump. Basically the liquid is contained within a flexible tube that has rollers to push the fluid out. I'm guessing that you could add a Tee into your reel hose connection and a 1 way valve on the tank outlet, that way you could pump the additive into your reel hose when required. I'm not sure how much pure you would have to push out of the reel hose before the additive starts to come out but it's a fairly easy calc. Not sure how you would work out the mix ratio though.
I wonder if there is a gap in the market for some sort of venturi device that connects between the pole and reel hose when you want to use an additive - bit like an X jet on a pressure washer. Where is @Skxawng when you need him

@Iron Giant its just to tag you in this post, i think it was around 2018 when i saw a problem or maybe another way around the additive idea, it was back then when i had created another additive but, it was way superior to what then and now is available on the market it had its uses but i could see that it had to be used on selective jobs ie commercial or jobs that are in frequent so it speeded up the work and left a spotless finish.
over six months or so i made a peri pump system so that you could add any additive to a system whether it be tfr, vision or similar even hypo, basically down streaming for wfp system.
what it means in the real world is that say, you turn up to do a conny clean-tfr for that one insert one end of the peri pump into the tfr mix and after six or eight mins you have a dilluted mix of tfr coming out of the jets on the brush,
turn the pump off and again, after six or eight mins you have pure to rinse off, the same applies to fsg.
now, if to take those naughty windows on homes into the equation then you could turn on and off additive as and when you need or want them to be used or, moreover which one to use as some are better than others.
i think @RyeCleanLiam posted a link via youtube with one i made for him amongst others just to prove the idea worked
it was never something that could be made a viable commercial project as its cheap to produce and install by anyone capable of crimping a wire and understanding red goes to red and black to black.

 

[Windowcleaner.me]

Add 1% alcohol to your tank.

 

[Skxawng]

I'm assuming he means a peristaltic pump. Basically the liquid is contained within a flexible tube that has rollers to push the fluid out. I'm guessing that you could add a Tee into your reel hose connection and a 1 way valve on the tank outlet, that way you could pump the additive into your reel hose when required. I'm not sure how much pure you would have to push out of the reel hose before the additive starts to come out but it's a fairly easy calc. Not sure how you would work out the mix ratio though.
I wonder if there is a gap in the market for some sort of venturi device that connects between the pole and reel hose when you want to use an additive - bit like an X jet on a pressure washer. Where is @Skxawng when you need him

Funny you should mention that, a friend of mine is working on that exact thing at the moment! I'll have to check in with him and see how it's going

 

[Iron Giant]

@Iron Giant its just to tag you in this post, i think it was around 2018 when i saw a problem or maybe another way around the additive idea, it was back then when i had created another additive but, it was way superior to what then and now is available on the market it had its uses but i could see that it had to be used on selective jobs ie commercial or jobs that are in frequent so it speeded up the work and left a spotless finish.
over six months or so i made a peri pump system so that you could add any additive to a system whether it be tfr, vision or similar even hypo, basically down streaming for wfp system.
what it means in the real world is that say, you turn up to do a conny clean-tfr for that one insert one end of the peri pump into the tfr mix and after six or eight mins you have a dilluted mix of tfr coming out of the jets on the brush,
turn the pump off and again, after six or eight mins you have pure to rinse off, the same applies to fsg.
now, if to take those naughty windows on homes into the equation then you could turn on and off additive as and when you need or want them to be used or, moreover which one to use as some are better than others.
i think @RyeCleanLiam posted a link via youtube with one i made for him amongst others just to prove the idea worked
it was never something that could be made a viable commercial project as its cheap to produce and install by anyone capable of crimping a wire and understanding red goes to red and black to black.

Thanks for this, I had a bit of search back within old posts but didn't find any video's it would be interesting to see one working.

I think for me I don't have to be selective as using it on every job is of benefit, that must have been some additive shame it couldn't be tweaked for wider use, although I know you moved away from the retail side of additives a few years ago.

I can assure you I'd get the wires mixed up

 

[Gadgetfox]

My two peneth is I only use pure water unless it's a first clean or the windows are obviously greasy, and if so I spray a bit of UBIK on the brush head which will clean two or three windows before spraying the brush again. Cheap and effective.

 

[Pjj]

My two peneth is I only use pure water unless it's a first clean or the windows are obviously greasy, and if so I spray a bit of UBIK on the brush head which will clean two or three windows before spraying the brush again. Cheap and effective.

Agree or theses days we usually use a hypo mix

 

[Iron Giant]

I think you get a feel for it either the glass and dirt is repelling the water or it doesn’t and you see the dirt going down the window if that makes sense

Sorry I forgot to reply to this yesterday.

I get what you mean the brush seems to have resistance on the glass, but I haven't seen the water behave differently on the glass at all,

In fact today I knew something was off on a job despite having Added Sparkle in the tank and plenty off it, the brush was resisting on the glass and that film was hard to shift.

 

[kevinc250]

Thanks for this, I had a bit of search back within old posts but didn't find any video's it would be interesting to see one working.

I think for me I don't have to be selective as using it on every job is of benefit, that must have been some additive shame it couldn't be tweaked for wider use, although I know you moved away from the retail side of additives a few years ago.

I can assure you I'd get the wires mixed up

that paticular additive is still "on the shelf" so to speak mate,it was just too good for normal use, commercial work then yes it would work if that work was say, every four to six months or so, it left the glass clean and very shiny but with no spotting whatsoever even if you tried.no good for the residential work

 

[kevinc250]

Funny you should mention that, a friend of mine is working on that exact thing at the moment! I'll have to check in with him and see how it's goin

its quite an easy one laurey, just get him to message me and i'll help him with whatever he needs to get his going

Funny you should mention that, a friend of mine is working on that exact thing at the moment! I'll have to check in with him and see how it's going

get him to drop me a message laurey and, i should be able to help him, its easy once you do the maths etc.