Hey, what's up YouTube? Luke the window cleaner, Brianna. You are watching Window Clean Resources YouTube channel. And today we're going to go over our, well, in our opinion, the five mistakes that need to make the most when they first start out window clean. Thanks for watching Window Cleaner.com. Make sure to give us a thumbs up and subscribe. For new guys, one of the biggest mistakes you're going to make is underestimating jobs. So, one of those jobs is French windows and storms. How many times do you think we've underestimated French and store window jobs? Because we've learned from our mistakes. What are some of the things we do to make sure we're getting a clear scope of the work? During the estimate, we go through and we check all the windows to make sure that it's in the open, from the inside. So, we determine if the storms are coming from the outside of the inside. Quote in person, like, yeah, never quote a storm job over the phone. And you can still absolutely underestimate storefronts, commercial work. It's not just storms and French pains, but make sure you're always taking account for everything that could go wrong. It'll go wrong. And you don't want to underbid yourself. I think it's something that takes experience and practice, but over time for new guys, you'll definitely get it down. But underestimating jobs is definitely one of the biggest newbie mistakes that we hear about in a week. No, how much are worth as well? So, just because everyone in your area, sorry, just because everyone in your area is charging $6, doesn't mean for a window on a residential home, doesn't mean that you have to. If you offer a better service, you can charge more. Yep. And that same philosophy goes along with storefronts and commercial work too, just because they're charging. Lord forbid, $25 or $0.50 a pain. Don't provide a better service and charge higher prices. And I think your company will grow faster. You will appreciate it in the long run. So, one problem that we see with new guys is they have different days of closing out. And that all really starts with when you first come up to a window. I should already know what side of the window I'm gonna close out on. I should already know what fingerprints are. And you'll get more or more use of that, the more you play windows. And what you'll see guys do is they will come in, start out pretty strong. And then when they get to the bottom, they go into like a panic. And I'm not really sure where they should close out. And then they use them play around here for too long. And then close out. And now a good rule of thumb is how high your window or how high your water is that? How many squeegees can you fit in there? I can fit two and a little bit, uh, drag marks if I was gonna do it straight across. So if I'm going to fan this window, I should be able to do it in three moves. So you just eliminate all of that fussing around at the bottom and close out on whatever side is the most comfortable for you. Something I want to add with leaving mistakes on the window is the most common places for a guy to leave mistakes when they're new. I was closing now also so I'll typically leave a mistake here as from kind of getting stuck over here and not knowing to just slide across. And then you'll see usually we're handing one more usually holding the squeegee incorrectly. So our hands are where the handle is touching the frame. So when we get here, my knuckles and my hands touch the frame and I'm leaving gaps of water here or if you close out of the bottom the same thing. So how to fix that is when you get to where you're going to close out in your last pass, don't screw around just pull straight across and leave my hands all the way. And I always tell when I'm training I tell them to flick the tool in so you want to flick it inwards so that the rubber is actually bending into the frame, ensuring that you're removing all the water. I still do my flip. Another big newbie mistake is drems. Rule of thumb, when you're inside it doesn't matter a home or commercial building or whatever if your washer is dripping water it is too wet. Every single time we come into a business and especially homes we bring out our washer and we dump our hip buckets to make sure that we're not carrying excess water. A good way to prevent drips is using the two handed technique when you're inside. So you'll see all the drips are being caught by my washer. So on my final pass I'll move my washer out of the way and then what's left on the frame is an extremely minimal water. Another good tip for for venting drips. So when you're down with the window and you're moving on you'll put your squeegee to your washer like so. So it's catching all the drips and when I move to the next window there will be no drips on the floor and if you're going to be moving, say when you're done cleaning a window and you go to holster your squeegee put it like this then into your bucket and that will also help prevent drips. Also when you're putting your washer into your hip bucket you don't want to slam it in when you're on the inside. If you do so you'll end up with drips everywhere. So you just want to gently put hip in when you're on the inside of a restaurant or especially at home. If you're new I would strongly suggest to use drop cloths on the inside of homes especially where it's carpeted or hard with floors. It doesn't matter I would just use drop cloths to prevent any drips. In our next top newbie mistake what we see is guys were locked too long so especially for store front accounts. Something that is cleaned on a regular schedule. We'll see you guys trying to do this right here. Well actually it's much slower. So they just spend so much time mopping and it's so much wasted time. I think everyone puts so much emphasis on removing the water with the squeegee which is good and you need to but you should also put some emphasis on how fast you're using your mop. So especially for maintenance cleans a lot of times what we'll do is we mop and squeegee it the same time and that will be just fine especially if the account's being cleaned once a week or once every two weeks. But if you can't do that and you could mop the whole window down just quicker. There you go and that's all it needs. Now that doesn't mean don't pay attention to what you're doing and if the window is really dirty you may want to use an abrasive pad or the end of your mop to remove any kind of fingerprints or whatever it may be. But this is a huge waste of time to sit and thoroughly mop the window. We always say to try to get a good stance and send yourself to the window so that you've got a whole reach over here, a whole reach over here. Another problem we see a lot is people blaming a tool for their mistakes or the rubber for their mistakes or you know just pointing the blame everywhere else and not actually thinking maybe it could be your technique. If you put a liquid in your hand I'm like office tool sucks but in reality it's me who sucks whenever it comes down to it because I don't know how to use it. So when you're first starting out so you get an accelerator or you get you know an Eterae super channel and you're using it and you're seeing lines and you're seeing kisses on the side here. It's most likely you and not the tool. It's just that you don't know how to use the tool yet. You're not sure how to check your rubber for debris. You're putting too much pressure on the squeegee or not enough or too close to the glass or too far away from the glass. There's so many so many other things that it could be other than the tool because the tool was made to work correctly. So if you find yourself like oh this tool is just so bad. It's probably not the tool. It's just that you haven't learned how to use it right. We'll leave a link in the description below but we actually have a video called troubleshooting your window cleaning and it runs you through pretty detailed on our top troubleshooting suggestions when you get these mistakes with tools. So we'll leave that in the link below. Alright guys that's it for our top newbie mistakes. So hope this video has helped you. If you have any questions please leave them in the comments below and we're going to jam out to this mall music. All right guys hey make sure you tune back in window clean resource uploads every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Hit the bell, you'll get notified whenever we upload. 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