RE: [World] bon ami and Glass Wax

["Pat Wentland" <addressis@removed>]

Michael,

   Blast from the past - Glass Wax! Great stuff on mirrors and those pesky imitation French doors with the grill overlay that will hold a ton of water. I keep a can around all the time, usually pick it up from True Value hardware. It does a pretty good job on polished metal and counter tops also. I've used it on plexi for cleaning but not for scratch removal, don't think it would be abrasive enough. You're right about being labor intense but if you put it on with a rag and buff it off with a boar hair brush it goes pretty good.

 For those who learned from the "old timers" remember what you did around Christmas time? Glass wax and stencils to decorate windows! I've still got my set of stencils and every now and then I can talk a client into using this retro method. You can get stencils for every holiday now, sure beats taking off the spray snow!

Pat Wentland

Atlantic Maintenance Services, Inc.

Yorktown, VA.

   

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From: World-owner@wcmail.net [mailto:World-owner@wcmail.net]On Behalf Of MTerrio502@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 12:59 AM
To: World@wcmail.net
Subject: Re: [World] bon ami and Glass Wax

OK long ago, to many years for me to recall there was a product called glass
wax. It went on like car wax. It was great for polishing glass. Very labor
intensive. Your arms felt like the would fall off your body after a long day.

One thing though, after a glass wax cleaning the water beaded up and windows
were much easier to clean with a squeegee for the next few years and no
screen rust for a few years too. I was too early in the business to think to
look at the ingredients to see what was causing this.

Michael Terrio
Mystic Window Cleaning
Boston Metro
"Nothing in business is so valuable as time."