CLEANING LEAVING NO STREAKS

Welcome to my channel steve-o, the window cleaner, my name is Steve Richardson and today I'm going to teach you how to clean your windows. Streak-Free, we're gon na go over a bunch of different methods, a bunch of different methods that, if you were to google this, that you would find and then i'm gon na teach you the methods to really get streak-free results. Give you a little bit of background. I'Ve been cleaning windows for over 10 years, so I feel like I'm able to give you that experience to be able to teach you how to clean your windows at home, work or wherever you're cleaning windows that and have Street free results. This video is for homeowners and for beginner window cleaners, who just may not understand how to get those Street free results so we'll be using. If you, google, you'll, find a vinegar solution that they talked a lot about on Google as far as and the one that I found, the most common was half and half so I used half vinegar solution and then half tap water for this and with this method, What we're gon na do is we're gon na spray on the window, use a microfiber to polish that out and then use another microfiber to polish that out again and we're gon na see if it gets treat free results from that next, we'll be using the world's Best glass, cleaner, their directions is shake well remove. Cap hold dispenser, upright eight inches to 12 inches away press button spray on saris of white clean free for best results polish with the lint-free cotton cloth. So this one we're basically just going to use one microfiber towel and just see what it does. Next. This is the biggest myth of cleaning your windows every street for results. You will never ever ever have streak free results from Windex Windex will leave streaks. It is not an unbeatable streak, free shine, it's very beautiful and then we're gon na go into the best way to clean your windows for Street free results. That is having a bucket full with dish. Soap. We are gon na use, Dawn dish, soap in this video and then a squeegee microfiber sleeve and a squeegee with a squeegee rubber and then we'll be using just a microfiber till the areas that we need to detail. So let's get started all right. So first we're gon na go over the first couple methods of spraying on a solution and then see how that works. So the first one we'll go over is the vinegar solution, so the vinegar solution. They say that spray-on all right and then wipe away with the first of 1 microfiber. Okay min he's another dry microfiber here and then wipe away that now, I'm doing this all on outside windows, because your outside windows going to be the most dirty, so you're gon na probably find there that not removing a solution is gon na cause. You streaks. So, let's look at this window here now I clean my windows, pretty often they're a pretty dirty from a snowstorm here we can't really see much, let's go inside and just check to see if we can see much. Okay, so inside really didn't see many streaks, but the thing you can see is you can see the kind of little bits of the cloth or the fabric on the glass so on this bottom pane. Now, let's try to do the glass cleaner, we're not going to do the Windex, because I know the Windex will streak so glass cleaner about 812 inches away from the glass and then they say just wipe with a microfiber. That'S what we're gon na! Do they? Don'T even say to buff it out I'll, put to a dry side and buff it out. Okay, so with that I mean it looks lean. I think the biggest thing you're gon na find with these type of solutions is. Is that one big thing that people always stop me and ask me, is how do you get at such streak-free? The only way you're gon na get streak-free windows is that if you use a squeegee and a microfiber mop and then a window cleaning detergent, so that's we're gon na go to this. So this right here will be the most highly suggested. Squeeze you for me. As far as for homeowners and beginners, this is called an editor, a back flip, dead rate back flips great, because you have two tools in one and then, if a windows a little bit too high for you, you can put this on a pole flip it like This attach it scrub the window and then flip it around and squeegee it. So let me show you what we would do with using this so with using a microfiber sleeve and a squeegee. What we first do is scrub down the window. We want to get to the edges, okay, all to the eye, just give it a good scrub, so see if it's really dirty or there's fingerprints really scrub. That area now say the window was extra extra dirty right. All this stuff, you pick up online, Amazon or Home Depot you're gon na go, get yourself quads or steel wool that quads your steel wool. You can put right on the glass either dry or wet. I suggest wet after you wet it down. Do it wet and then, if you have like little bug, prints or something you can take your steel wool and buff out those prints? Now you cannot use this on tinted, glass or glass with low heat coating below a coating will leave little purple spots and your tent will scratch it's. What you'll do with this? Is you can unfold it to make it a little bit bigger, and this is only gon na last you, you know one whole clean as far as for your house cuz. It will rest, of course, so we kind of unfold it there make it a little bit. Bigger there and we're gon na scrub down the glass - and this is just gon na get off even like little things of paint, not not big, big things of paint, and it's gon na get off all of your extra stuff. It'S on there, okay! So then, because you're, probably new at cleaning windows, so first, what you're gon na do is you're going to wipe your side right there and then you're gon na dry off your squeegee. Then you go up and you're gon na pull straight across just like so now. You'Re, not of you see a lot of people pipe off their whole blade is uif off your whole blade wherever the rubber is touching, but there's not solution most likely, you leave a streak, so what you want to do is just get the tip of it. You'Re gon na put the squeegee back on and you're gon na angle. It just a tiny bit so that when you go like so, your squeegee isn't leaving water at the top here, because you like this, so the water is traveling up and over, and then I have to get done with that. This is not quite a dry microfiber. Don'T take your dry microfiber and you want to detail the sides detail at the top detail that and detail your bottom frame. You'Ll get a little soap run off there and just like that. That is how you're gon na get your windows the best streak-free clean that you can possibly do so now, we'll go on to the lower window for the lower window right at what these are seen again and I'll teach you a little bit of an advanced technique. So what you could start to learn as a homeowner as you clean your windows more and more and more is the Fanning ticking. The Fanning technique is gon na give you your best possible clean with using a squeegee now how the Fang technique works. Scrub down your glass you're, going to enter whether your right or left hand, if your right hand we're gon na do that for today, you're gon na enter the glass on the left side. Now, if you're, just starting out an easier way to start. This is wipe your squeegee blade start up here on the left side. If you're right-handed move across the glass, as you start, reaching your right side start dipping the squeegee down and come back and grab Brad. You started and you're gon na grab that water off and you're gon na work. Your way just doing an S motion down the glass and finishing without ever leaving the glass with your squeegee and all you have to do - is just lightly detail. Your sides in your corners and you will have the best possibility of streak-free results when we do the method I'm gon na, do the method of straight pool. You can cause streaks even using a squeegee. Why, when you do the first pull and your squeegee is perfectly dry, there's nothing on there, there's no dirt or anything. The only thing is gon na happen is you're gon na leave a little bit here, possibly, but we don't want to dry off our squeegee squeegee. The full thing when we do the next stroke we want to lead polite, honest we're just gon na do the top now right here. When I pull, I can see that the squeegee is bleeding. What does that mean? That means that there's enough dirt on there that it's allowing water to travel back, do the rubber and still be on the glass possible, even streaks but minimal, but could still leave streaks. So I highly highly suggests. But if your homeowner - and you really really figure out your windows or you're new to window cleaning - that you learn how to fan a window, they also call this the S technique. There'S a lot of great videos on YouTube to learn this technique. Plus I have some which I'll put up in the corner on the info to teach you how to use this technique. It'S good to maybe start a little bit of a smaller squeegee. This is a 14 inch squeegee, but so if you don't want to start there and you want to go a little more advanced than that, what you're gon na do is you're going to cut into your windows, so you're gon na cut into the left side. Your window, if you're right-handed, you're gon na travel up to the corners over to your right corner down a little bit till it gets uncomfortable, bringing the squeegee back to the area that you started and then just in an S motion bringing the squeegee down the glass And finishing that window for inside windows is pretty much the same thing. I suggest ringing out your mop just a little bit more to clean the inside, so you're, not leaving so much water on the inside, but the straight pull technique or the s technique when using a good good squeegee can really really do the best job. If say, you don't want to pay for someone to clean your windows or, if you're newbie try to learn how to use a squeegee and the S technique of Fanning technique. Now, as far as when the solution with my just tap water and Don soap, I only fill it up a gallon and just put about three good squirts of Don soap in it. You want to soapy, but you don't want it so soapy that when you put it on there I mean you don't want to put soap directly on your mop and then put that on the glass. That'S just not a good way of doing it. So I hope this helped you in understanding what methods work best for when cleaning your windows to have streak-free results. All these products that I've used today are you can easily buy off of Amazon. Also personally Stu a website called window cleaning resource. You can buy these products out as well. Some of these more simple things like vinegar, Windex, Don soap, even the glass cleaner that you can buy at Home, Depot Lowe's grocery stores as well, and then all these microfiber towels I'll, put links to these as well. Microfibers are great as far as just trying to great for buffing out that won't leave a lot of stuff on the glass, but you can see here these windows perfectly cleaned, so they are pretty dirty from a snowstorm but now perfectly clean, and I would definitely highly Highly suggest using the Fanning technique, then using any other technique. So if you have any questions, comment below and I'll help you out as much as possible. I hope you've enjoyed this video about how to clean your windows and leave streak free results.