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Bob
05-10-2005, 06:11 AM
This question comes up all the time...."How can I clean my glass without leaving streaks?" Well, we have the answer.

1) Spray your glass cleaner onto the glass. I use Stoner's Invisible Glass.

2) Take a CLEAN glass cleaning microfiber towel and wipe the glass down good. On bigger pieces of glass such as windshield and rear windows I do half of the window at a time.

3) Go back over the glass AGAIN using another clean microfiber glass cleaning towel.

This should leave your glass crystal clear and streak free! The trick is choosing a good quality glass cleaner and always using two clean microfiber towels.

A lot of people also ask me about using newspaper to clean the glass. Some people have good luck with this route but I don't feel comfortable using newspaper. I have seen instances where the ink from the paper runs and drips onto interior surfaces. Not so bad on dark color interiors but a nasty mess on light colored interiors.

jakerooni
07-02-2009, 09:32 AM
The real trick is using the proper amount of product. Too much and you get streaks when it drys too little and you get streaks from the towel. There's a perfect medium that needs to be achieved. The best practice to do this is wipe one way on the outside (say horizontially) and then the 90* off on the inside of the glass. That way you can tell exactly which side of the window the streak is on until you get the process of the right amount of product down.

mrclrider
07-02-2009, 11:29 AM
+1 for wiping in different directions..I learned that years ago from Bob Vila watching this old house..lol..

BlueZero
07-02-2009, 04:02 PM
Once you get it down it's like a magic trick to other people. lol