Window Cleaning Supplies – Some Thoughts

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Whether you are starting a window cleaning business, or just want to keep your retail showroom windows in tip top shape, buying the correct cleaning supplies is a huge part of the process. If you are a retail shop owner and have about thirty to forty feet of showroom glass aimed at the general public, then you know how important crystal clear windows are to make a great impression to current and potential clients. A start up windows cleaning service never has a second chance to impress clients, so using the best window cleaning supplies, and knowing how to use them correctly will make you an immediate success.

Residential window cleaning services require not only perfect results, but the most successful entrepreneur will offer extra services like over spray removal, hard water stain removal, and new construction clean up. Extra length poles for brushes and squeegees are necessary in a business or residential situation. Extension ladders are necessary to reach extra tall retail windows, or second story home windows.

Special chemicals to remove acid rain, mineral deposits, silica, and cement leaching are available from distributors who specialize in professional window cleaning supplies. Customers will think you have a magic wand in your tool kit when you restore their windows to a new condition. Educate your clients that water sprinklers consistently hitting their windows; create hard deposits that make their windows unsightly.

Keeping your equipment and truck spotless will show your customers that you can take of your own property well enough to be responsible for theirs. Having a uniform instead blue jeans and a white t-shirt will also show prospective clients that you are a professional and you take their needs seriously. When giving a quote in person – offer to clean one small low-level window inside and out as a demonstration. Once they see that you can do wonders with your chemicals and squeegee, they will usually want you to finish their whole house while you are still there.

Clients that are hypersensitive to many chemicals can benefit from you using a mixture of half distilled water, and half white vinegar. Their windows will still be spotless, and their allergies will not become activated from the stronger chemicals. This solution will work in many situations, but will not remove paint over spray, or hard spots. Usually spot remover is used on the outside of the home, so they should still be safe from exposure.

The last thing you want to do is run out of supplies while on a job, so make sure you always keep a weeks worth of supplies loaded in your truck, and the rest back at your warehouse or garage. Check the storage instruction on all window cleaning chemicals for storage temperature requirements. If they are heat sensitive, storing in them in a warehouse may render them useless, and eat at your profit margins to the point of essentially working for free.

Tinted windows are especially sensitive to chemicals and should not be cleaned for the first thirty days to let the film adhesive set up properly. Then only purified or distilled water with a soft cloth, and extra soft squeegees should be used for cleaning. Talk to your window-cleaning distributor for extra information concerning working with tinted film on the inside of commercial and residential windows.

Some clients will want to know what you are doing with your business to become more “Green”, as many industries are doing now. New chemicals are available that will not contaminate ground water, and will dissolve without leaving a chemical residue even on the windows themselves. This is also a perfect opportunity to sell customers retail products for cleaning their automobile windows, computer screens, and portable wireless devices.

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