Defusing The Three Lies of Water Fed Pole Work!

This short article is only a taste of what will be discussed at the very first Glass Smart Webinar.  The focus of this Webinar will be how to effectively and efficiently convert hydrophobic glass surfaces to hydrophylic (water loving) EVERY TIME!  There will be demonstrations and all the products mentioned will be identified and sourced so you will be able to obtain them.  The cost of the Webinar is ten dollars USD by PayPal.  To attend just send an email to henrygroverjr@gmail.com


There are several lies that surround WFP window cleaning.  The very first one that I would like to defuse here is that a TDS meter will tell you the "total" dissolved solids (TDS) of any water source.  Actually it will only tell you about the dissolved minerals which conduct an electrical current.  Water must have minerals or salts to conduct electricity.  Silica is a mineral that does not conduct electricity.  So a TDS meter that works by measuring the conductivity of water will not give an accurate measurement of the silica content.  This is why water that has a TDS reading of zero can leave spots.  


The second lie that has been going around is that glass can be hydrophobic or hydrophylic.  The plain truth is that all glass is very hydrophylic.  Window surfaces that "bead water" and hence appear to be hydrophobic, do this only because of hydrocarbon pollution.  Once this has been effectively and completely removed from the glass its true hydrophylic nature is revealed.  Every time.  There are different ways to get this effect.  Bronze wool will do it.  Cerium oxide will do it.  Diamond compounds will do it.  Even microcrystalline silica compounds will do it.  What I am looking for however is a technology that will "deep clean" glass surfaces most effectively and in the least amount of time.  Compounds will do it as I have mentioned, but they take at least a half minute per square foot.  They also make a bit of a mess.  It would be much better to have something like bronze wool that would work with just water and a pole.


A third lie is that it is not possible to clean windows with a WFP and high TDS water without getting spots.  The idea is that Di or RO pure water is needed to attain a spot free window.  But this is simply not true.  I know this because I have done it!  There have been many others who have done it too.  The key involves attaining what I call the hydrophylic effect.  This is accomplished by adding a superwetting surfactant to the rinse water, or converting the surface to a water loving surface.  The latter can be done by either deep cleaning or using a chemical that leaves a hydrophylic coating.  Hydrophylic windows "drain" the rinse water so there are no drops left behind which evaporate leaving spots.  Simply put "no drops no spots".


I will be working with Jordie Palanzi of The Window Cleanse to help expose these lies.  Our goal is to revolutionize the technology of Water Fed Pole window cleaning.  


Written by Henry Grover Jr.

henrygroverjr@gmail.com 


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