There are thousands of window cleaning companies in the USA and other companies with 5 and more employees. The simple matter is that the owners of these companies absolutely cannot run around to every job and inspect every window before and after it has been cleaned. Neither can these owners train all of the employees so they will be able to determine if the window is safe to scrape or not. Even if they did know the lazy thing is to just grab a razor and do a thirty second scrape. Which might cost three hundred to fix. These are just the facts. There is no way around them. And glass surfaces are not getting better. Also low e coatings are becoming more difficult to detect. So what do we do?
Just put the ducky down!!! Take the razor away from all of your employees. And put yours in your truck or the trash. If there is heavy dirt from years gone by don't take out 0000 steel or bronze wool. I have seen that scratch if the glass is defective enough. For this problem and greasy finger prints you can use a sprinkle of a soft plastic super-abrasive powder on your applicator or a soft cotton towel like a Huck. I have done this at restaurants before. Wet the window, then apply the powder to the long swivel applicator, then scrub. Next squeegee. It all comes off super clean. No steel wool, no razors.
I am working on several other plastic super-abrasive powders right now. You don't want to know what they are or why they work so I won't tell you. You just need to know where you can get them and what they work on. This I will tell you. I think one of the most important and most practical replacement products for the razor will be a soft cloth that has been impregnated with a plastic super-abrasive powder. Hoping to have this very soon. I know you guys use the Magic Eraser a lot.
Which I still need to test for absolute safety. This is a great product but I don't know exactly what type of abrasives it has been impregnated with. I think a cloth would be much more practical since we could quickly drape it over our strip washer or scrunch it up in our hand for cut ups. The Magic Eraser shown above could be put on a swivel flat scrubber. The bottom line here is we cannot be lazy. We have to use alternative products. As glass gets worse, and metal factory coatings become more common, we have to eliminate the razor.
I keep on getting calls and emails from guys all over the world about lawsuits from scratches. They are losing their companies. Especially the anxiety that they all have to deal with is just beyond belief. I wouldn't want even an enemy to have to tolerate this. So please start working with this new tech. These products DO work. You are likely working with at least one of them right now.
Written by Henry Grover Jr.
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