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Summary: Watch as a window-cleaning professional explains how to prevent drips when cleaning exterior windows in this free online video about window maintenance.
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Dave Barker Dave Barker has been cleaning windows since 1983. He has cleaned thousands of windows on downtown buildings, suburban office buildings, and government facili... read more
DAVE BARKER: On behalf of Expert Village, I've talked about how to squeegee these windows, how to get to the edges and so forth. You want to repeat the last three steps again and make sure that you get that. If you get through and the windows mopped in you got dripping, if you don't clean that top edge, you see up here there's dripping that comes down. You want to make sure you get that correct. If you don't, that will happen. So ,if you're going to repeat the window, wet it down, do it all over again and do it the right way 'cause you don't want to leave those drippings. You want to clean the window. There's no need to having the edges clean. It's tough to clean so it looks terrible. Here's another method. You can come across, get to the edge and come down in one stroke. And you see, I'll do that one more time. I'm going to come across straight and then I'm going to flip the back of the squeegee around and come down, and that just serves the same purpose as the other thing. That's more of a modern method. I'm going to clean that edge, but I'll also make sure it's clean. Get all that. There's a little bit of drying out here so I'm just going to touch that, just a tad bit and because it's so cold outside. Generally, in the winter and summer this is definitely rough. We're going to clean the top edge so it doesn't drip down, just using the edge in the window. And in the next couple of steps, we'll have a clean window.