Cordless Window Vacuum

[polygonum]

Anyone got experience of the currently-available-at-Lidl SILVERCREST
3.7V Cordless Window Vacuum?

I have been surprised at some of the positive comments about the Karcher
product - is this very much an also-ran or competitor?

At £19.99 it is a lot less expensive...

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[Dave Liquorice]

On Tue, 08 Apr 2014 20:55:56 +0100, polygonum wrote:

> Anyone got experience of the currently-available-at-Lidl SILVERCREST
> 3.7V Cordless Window Vacuum?

WTF is a "Window Vacuum"? Surely to clean windows you want a bucket,
warm water, drop of detergent, a cloth and only minor elbow grease.

Wanders off to Lidl site, ah, well if you are daft enough to get that
much foam on your windows... Mind you a squegie and cloth will clear
that.

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[Graham.]

On Tue, 08 Apr 2014 22:46:27 +0100 (BST), "Dave Liquorice"
<allsortsn...@howhill.com> wrote:

>On Tue, 08 Apr 2014 20:55:56 +0100, polygonum wrote:
>
>> Anyone got experience of the currently-available-at-Lidl SILVERCREST
>> 3.7V Cordless Window Vacuum?
>
>WTF is a "Window Vacuum"?

Electronic counter-countermeasures?

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[polygonum]

I am sure I have seen mention of the competitor here, or is my memory
failing? Indeed, I thought I had read quite positive comments - though I
was at the time somewhat surprised.

http://www.karcher.co.uk/uk/Products/Home__Garden/Window_Vac.htm

Lots of comments on the Amazon listing:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B009PN0WCO

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Rod

[Andy Burns]

polygonum wrote:

> On 08/04/2014 22:46, Dave Liquorice wrote:
>
>> WTF is a "Window Vacuum"? Surely to clean windows you want a bucket,
>> warm water, drop of detergent, a cloth and only minor elbow grease.
>> Wanders off to Lidl site, ah, well if you are daft enough to get that
>> much foam on your windows... Mind you a squegie and cloth will clear
>> that.
>
> I am sure I have seen mention of the competitor here, or is my memory
> failing? Indeed, I thought I had read quite positive comments

I have the karcher one, of course you don't want huge volumes of foam
like the Lidl advert, the karcher liquid is not foamy at all, the window
vac sucks the water in via a slit in a pair of rubber lips rather than
squeegeeing it off onto the window cill, this is effective at leaving a
dry, smear-free window.

[Lawrence]

+1

[annie...@gmail.com]

This is definitely a competitor! Having trouble getting my husband to put it down!

[JimK]

The mind bugles....

Jim K

[dani.g...@gmail.com]

I just bought one today . It leaves a lot of marks on the mirror . For me it's useless . I tried to clean the mirror with it like 5 times and finally I had to clean it the old way :(

[DerbyBorn]

dani.g...@gmail.com wrote in
news:27b45c1a-cae7-4b56...@googlegroups.com:

> I just bought one today . It leaves a lot of marks on the mirror . For
> me it's useless . I tried to clean the mirror with it like 5 times and
> finally I had to clean it the old way :(
>

What is "like" 5 times?
Perhaps 4 times and then once more?

[Roger Mills]

On 24/04/2015 22:27, dani.g...@gmail.com wrote:
> I just bought one today . It leaves a lot of marks on the mirror . For me it's useless . I tried to clean the mirror with it like 5 times and finally I had to clean it the old way :(

Which one did you buy? My Karcher is fine on mirrors, but I see that a
lot of cheap imitations are coming onto the market.
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[Brian Gaff]

Actually, , these sort of solutions looking for a problem are often not up
to the job. Its a bit like the Ktal and such of yeesteryear. Sunds like a
neat idea but seldom works. the point is witth a window vac, you tend to get
straight line smears, and the eye, as I reacall is very sensitive to regular
structures and patterns. However when you use a traditional method you swirl
and do not leave straight lines.
Brian

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[Adam Aglionby]

Decent queegee, chamois , tiny amount of detergent some practice...

Ever see a pro window cleaner using a window vac, windolene or any of the other wondow cleaning snake oil...?

[Dave Plowman (News)]

In article <6b0253f9-992e-427a...@googlegroups.com>,

Quite. No different to washing a car. Wash the dirt off with 'soapy'
water, rinse with clean, and chamois dry. A decent chamois is the secret
to a smear free finish.

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[DerbyBorn]

"Dave Plowman (News)" <da...@davenoise.co.uk> wrote in
news:54b9eb8...@davenoise.co.uk:

> In article <6b0253f9-992e-427a...@googlegroups.com>,
> Adam Aglionby <ledl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Decent queegee, chamois , tiny amount of detergent some practice...
>
>> Ever see a pro window cleaner using a window vac, windolene or any of
>> the other wondow cleaning snake oil...?
>
> Quite. No different to washing a car. Wash the dirt off with 'soapy'
> water, rinse with clean, and chamois dry. A decent chamois is the secret
> to a smear free finish.
>

I think glass needs "conditioning" to the cleaning method. I imagine that
residues from other regimes interfere a bit with new methods. Likewise, the
rubber of a squeegee could be a bit greasy.
It took me ages to be able to clean a patio door glass properly - it was as
if there was a film from the manufacturing process that had made it a bit
oily.

[Adam Aglionby]

For that either use a chamois or a scrim cloth:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/WINDOW-SCRIM-CLOTH-CLEANER-SMEAR/dp/B003VPGU96