Hi I am Jason. I have been a window cleaner in Los Angeles for almost two years. First year working for a 15 year veteran in Silverlake/Hollywood Hills and this year working for myself and the other guy 50/50 in Glendale, Pasadena, Studio City and Hollywood Hills. Almost entirely residential but am looking at adding commerical.
I use traditonal tools and techniques and have been getting into wfp last few months, Unger Alum 14 ft with 10 ft extension, regular Unger rectangular flocked brush and just got a Gardiner superlight medium mixed bristle brush with tiny pencil jets for high work. For pure water I use a $30 4 gal hand-pump backpack sprayer from harbor freight that I fill with a combo of store bought distilled water (zero tds) $1 a gallon and purified water from a local store .25 cents a gallon (7-12 tds) that I blend with distilled to lower tds. I will likely add more brushes and a reach-it and wash-it at some point or maybe go with unger Nlite pole and wash-it because I like the Nlite hose management system.
Getting way better at WFP since I started. The guy I sometimes work for is old school and had once tried wfp using a tucker and rented tanks, but he always left spots and had to redo traditional. He did about 10 houses and gave up. When I first used my wfp setup on his jobs and left spots and he was "I told you so, it doesn't work". But I persisted and now almost no spots every time, I learned that if there are spots as long as the tds is under 10ppm then it is always technique. Now he is fast becoming a believer.
Anyway, I really appreciate the forum and that window cleaners are willing to help each other out with tips and advice, it has definitely boosted my learning in a huge way.
Thanks!
I use traditonal tools and techniques and have been getting into wfp last few months, Unger Alum 14 ft with 10 ft extension, regular Unger rectangular flocked brush and just got a Gardiner superlight medium mixed bristle brush with tiny pencil jets for high work. For pure water I use a $30 4 gal hand-pump backpack sprayer from harbor freight that I fill with a combo of store bought distilled water (zero tds) $1 a gallon and purified water from a local store .25 cents a gallon (7-12 tds) that I blend with distilled to lower tds. I will likely add more brushes and a reach-it and wash-it at some point or maybe go with unger Nlite pole and wash-it because I like the Nlite hose management system.
Getting way better at WFP since I started. The guy I sometimes work for is old school and had once tried wfp using a tucker and rented tanks, but he always left spots and had to redo traditional. He did about 10 houses and gave up. When I first used my wfp setup on his jobs and left spots and he was "I told you so, it doesn't work". But I persisted and now almost no spots every time, I learned that if there are spots as long as the tds is under 10ppm then it is always technique. Now he is fast becoming a believer.
Anyway, I really appreciate the forum and that window cleaners are willing to help each other out with tips and advice, it has definitely boosted my learning in a huge way.
Thanks!
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