HOW TO CLEAN WINDOWS WITHOUT STREAKING .

Welcome to my channel Steve of The Window Cleaner. My name is Steve Richardson and today I'm going to teach you how to clean your windows street free. We're going to 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 going to teach you the methods to really get street 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 clean windows at 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 talk 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 going to do is we're going to spray on the window use a microfiber to polish that out and then use another microfiber to polish that out again and we're going to see if we get street 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 surface and wipe clean. For best results polish with a 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 and 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 beatable and then we're going to go into the best way to clean your windows for streak free results. That is having a bucket full with dish soap. We are going to 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 to detail the areas that we need to detail. So let's get started. All right so first we're going to go over the first couple methods of spraying on a solution and then seeing how that works. So the first one we'll go over is the vinegar solution. So the vinegar solution they say to spray on. All right and then wipe away with the first of one microfiber. Okay and then use another dry microfiber here and then wipe away that. Now I'm doing this all on outside windows because your outside window is going to be the most dirty so you're going to probably find there that not removing a solution is going to cause you streaks. So let's look at this window here. Now I clean my windows pretty often they're 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 kind of a little bit of the cloth so 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 8-12 inches away from the glass and they say just wipe with a microfiber. So that's what we're going to do. They don't even say to buff it out. I'll do a dry side and buff it out. Okay so with that I mean it looks clean. I think the biggest thing you're going to find with these type of solutions is is the one big thing that people always stop me and ask me is how do you get it such streak free. The only way you're going to get streak free windows is that if you use a squeegee and a microfiber mop and then a window cleaning detergent. So that's where we're going to go to this. So this right here will be the most highly suggested squeegee for me as far as for homeowners and beginners. This is called an Ederay backflip. The Ederay backflip is great because you have two tools in one and then if the window is 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 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 edges give it a good scrub especially 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 gonna go get yourself quad zero steel wool. That quad zero 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 up those prints. Now you cannot use this on tinted glass or glass with low e-coating. The low e-coating will leave little purple spots and your tint will scratch. So what you'll do with this is you can unfold it to make it a little bit bigger and this is only going to last you you know one hole clean as far as for your house because it will rust of course. So we kind of unfold it there make it a little bit bigger there and we're going to scrub down the glass and this is just going to get off even like little things of paint not not big big things of paint it's going to get off all of your extra stuff that's on there. Okay so then because you're probably new at cleaning windows so first what you're going to do is you're going to wipe your side right there and then you're going to dry off your squeegee and you go up and you're going to pull straight across just like so. Now you're not you'll see a lot of people wipe off their whole blade if you wipe off your whole blade wherever the rubber is touching but there's not a solution most likely you'll leave a streak. So what you want to do is just get the tip of it you're going to put the squeegee back on and you're going to 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're like this so the water's traveling up and over and then after you get done with that this is not quite a dry microfiber you want to 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 going to 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 I would use our sleeve 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 technique. The fanning technique is going to give you your best possible clean using a squeegee. Now how the fanning technique works scrub down your glass you're going to enter whether you're right or left-handed if you're right-handed we're going to do that for today you're going to 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 where you started you're going to grab that water off and you're going to 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 and your corners and you will have the best possibility of streak-free results. When we do the method of straight pull 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 it there's no dirt or anything the only thing that's going to happen is you're going to leave a little bit here possibly but we don't want to dry off our squeegee the full thing when we do the next stroke we want to leave the light on it so we're just going to 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 through the rubber and still be on the glass possibly leaving streaks but minimal but could still leave streaks so I highly highly suggest that if you're a homeowner and you're really really big about 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 going to do is you're going to cut into your windows you're going to cut into the left side of your window if you're right-handed you're going to 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 it's pretty much the same thing I suggest wringing 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 a newbie try to learn how to use a squeegee and the s technique like fanning technique now as far as when the solution with my just tap water and dawn soap I only fill it up about a gallon and just put about three good squirts of dawn soap in it you want it 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 put some links to a website called window cleaning resource that you can buy these products at as well some of these more simple things like vinegar windex dawn soap even the glass cleaner there 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 they won't leave a lot of stuff on the glass but you can see here these windows perfectly clean so they were pretty dirty from a snowstorm but now perfectly clean and I would definitely highly highly suggest using fanning technique than 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