Okay well I am hardly the only guy to ever have a problem with this, but I am getting streaks and drip marks on the edges of the glass. Only thing is, I am hearing of multiple approaches to dealing with this. So far, I am generally letting them dry, and then wiping them off with a towel. By "towel", I mean one of those "super absorbent!" Quickie brand ones that seems like it's made of felt (it's not though). This seems to be effective yet time consuming, so I guess it's not really effective in that case. I wait until the drips are dry because that way, the towel doesn't get wet and quickly need to be replaced with a dry one, and there are no streaks. Wiping a wet streak with a towel just tends to leave a different-shaped streak.
The two approaches I have heard of for dealing with this both have their disadvantages. One is to wipe the edge(s) of the glass with a towel before you squeegee. Great, but you're possibly creating just another streak when you do that. The other is to just not apply soap to the very edge of the glass or otherwise get it wet. Okaaaay, but that amounts to not cleaning it. And besides, how are you going to get such a thin margin with a scrubber. A scrubber is really just a mop, and mops aren't all that precise.
Yet one more way I have been told to deal with this is to "cut in" with the squeegee. About all I know of this method so far is that doing it this way allows you to apply water to all edges of the glass, and I mean right to the edge of the pane. Then by "cutting in", which seems to involve applying the squeegee at an angle, you supposedly don't get drip marks. I've been doing that when I start my fanning-as do most of us-and I'm still getting drip marks. Just what is "cutting in"? Oft talked about, rarely really explained. There may be different ways of dealing with this, but I need to know the most expedient one, and preferably one which doesn't involve me having to get on a step ladder to wipe the edges when the rest of the glass has been done with a scrubber and squeegee employed from a pole. That would kind of defeat the purpose.
Thanks!
The two approaches I have heard of for dealing with this both have their disadvantages. One is to wipe the edge(s) of the glass with a towel before you squeegee. Great, but you're possibly creating just another streak when you do that. The other is to just not apply soap to the very edge of the glass or otherwise get it wet. Okaaaay, but that amounts to not cleaning it. And besides, how are you going to get such a thin margin with a scrubber. A scrubber is really just a mop, and mops aren't all that precise.
Yet one more way I have been told to deal with this is to "cut in" with the squeegee. About all I know of this method so far is that doing it this way allows you to apply water to all edges of the glass, and I mean right to the edge of the pane. Then by "cutting in", which seems to involve applying the squeegee at an angle, you supposedly don't get drip marks. I've been doing that when I start my fanning-as do most of us-and I'm still getting drip marks. Just what is "cutting in"? Oft talked about, rarely really explained. There may be different ways of dealing with this, but I need to know the most expedient one, and preferably one which doesn't involve me having to get on a step ladder to wipe the edges when the rest of the glass has been done with a scrubber and squeegee employed from a pole. That would kind of defeat the purpose.
Thanks!
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