What's your favorite glass cleaner and why?
That's a great question and we're going to talk about that today.
Hi there, I'm Angela Brown, and this is Ask a House Cleaner.
This is a show where you get to ask a house cleaning question,
and I get to help you find an answer.
Now today, we're going to be doing a product review on Sprayway,
which is my favorite glass cleaner.
I will tell you this, this is not a paid endorsement, they do not know that I'm reviewing this product,
but I'm going to share with you how I discovered it, how it works, and we're going to test
it and try it on a couple of different things,
and I'm going to let you know if it actually works.
I'll give you a hint, it's my favorite, so it works.
Okay, let's look at the company.
Sprayway Inc. is the company that manufactures Sprayway.
And they've been around since 1947, which makes the company almost as old as my dad.
But please don't tell my dad I said that.
So, in the 71 years they've been in business, they have an all-purpose cleaner, they have
a stainless-steel cleaner, they've got a marble and granite cleaner, along with the glass
cleaner that they have and they have an entire line of auto cleaning products.
On this show when we do a review, we cover the safety data sheet, which is required by
the Globally Harmonized System that says every chemical manufacturer has to list the proper
protocols for their customers and consumers so you know what the safety issues are and
how best to use the products.
The hazard identification is that it is a gas under pressure, so it may explode if heated.
The ingredients of Sprayway are propane, butane, ethyl alcohol, and butoxyethanol,
and that is an organic compound which is basically an inexpensive solvent that has low toxicity.
In the first aid measures, it says there are no specific first aid measures noted.
Then it says "If you inhale it, move to fresh air."
In the firefighting measures, it says "Suitable extinguishing media is water fog, foam, dry
chemical power, carbon dioxide," which is basically any household fire extinguisher
in the event that this should catch fire while it's in your possession.
Alright, accidental release measures.
For any reason, if this can should get punctured while it's in your possession, then you want
to take it outside and get away from it as quick as possible.
Don't inhale it and let it fizzle itself out.
Alrighty, the handling and storage precautions.
"Keep away from heat, sparks, open flames, and hot surfaces."
Then it says "Do not use if the spray button is missing or defective," but if the spray
button was missing or defective, you wouldn't be able to use it anyway, so there you go.
Alrighty, the exposure guidelines.
The butoxyethanol can be absorbed through the skin, so if you're going to be cleaning
windows for a long-extended period of time,
it might be wise to use a pair of disposable gloves.
The physical properties.
It is a gas, it's an aerosol, and it is a liquified gas.
Stable and reactivity, the product is stable and nonreactive under normal conditions of
use, storage, and transport.
On the toxicological information, it has an eye contact warning.
"Direct eye contact with the eyes," as in if you spray this in your eyes, "It could
cause temporary irritation."
Don't spray it in your eyes.
In the ecological information, there's a note here that says the product is not classified
as environmentally hazardous.
The transport information is that it does ship under nonflammable aerosols, so that's
good to know, and if you're a house cleaner and you're just commuting from house to house,
if you want to carry it in your cleaning caddy, that's perfectly fine, keep the lid on it
and that way it will prevent it from falling over and accidentally spraying it inside your
car without your authorization.
Then the regulatory information.
The product is a hazardous chemical, then it breaks down what the hazards are.
"Immediate hazard, no.
Delayed hazard, no.
Fire hazard, no.
Pressure hazard, yes," so don't puncture it.
"Reactivity hazard, no."
Other information that the manufacturer wants you to know is that the product is ammonia
free, it's streakless, and they are so convinced that you're going to excited about using that
they offer you a 100% money back guarantee on the Spray Away product.
So what we did first of all is we wanted to spray some glass that was on a large picture
over a leather sofa.
I like the Sprayway for the fact that when I sprayed over the leather sofa, the foam
stuck to the glass and there was no over spray that landed on the floor or the sofa.
Awesome.
Okay, the next thing that I really enjoy is cleaning glass itself, it's great for small
areas like transoms over doors and the small pane areas that go to the sides of doors,
because it doesn't leak down in those areas.
One tip for cleaning glass windows, there are two sides to a glass window, so if you
will clean both sides in different patterns, so you clean one side in a vertical pattern
and you clean the other side in a horizontal pattern, then if there are any streaks, you
can see which direction the streak is going in, and you'll know on which side of the window
is the streak, so booyah.
Alright, also this is great for mirrors because this doesn't leak behind the mirror itself.
It's a foam, it sticks the front of it, you wipe it down with a paper towel or a lint
free cloth.
Lots of people like to use microfiber cloths, that's fine.
You can also use coffee filters, you can use newspaper.
Newspapers are kind of hard to come by anymore though, but paper towels work just fine.
You want to use something that's lint free, and just spray a little bit on the window
and a little bit goes a long way.
You do not need a lot of spray.
Another thing that's awesome for this, glass tabletops, because lots of stuff gets on glass
tabletops and there are constant fingerprints, so as a professional house cleaner, just to
touch up a couple fingerprints here and there, you don't need to clean a whole area that's
not dirty.
If a piece of glass is already clean, you can simply spray on that area, wipe it down,
and the rest of the window is clean.
You just dust the rest of the window, so that works as well.
Other areas that I really enjoy using it for are the rear view mirror of a car.
When you're sitting inside your car, you don't want to spray that mirror, because then there
will be over spray that falls down in the console and the little buttons and areas of
your car, so this is great because it just hits that one area, now you can clean the
area, wipe it down, and you're done.
Another great use for Sprayway are the glass panes that are built into your cabinets that
are either above your coffee bar or above your stove.
There are lots of stoves that have these, and there are probably china or something
in the cabinets behind them, but these little glass windows get lots of grease from bacon
grease or from cooking grease or fried foods or whatever, and it's very difficult to get
clean, but the Sprayway does an amazing job, and again, it doesn't leak because it's
foam, so it doesn't leak from pane to pane, and then it doesn't leak down onto your stove below.
As a professional house cleaner or as a homeowner who cleans your own windows, one of the things
that is really important is that you have a step stool that allows you to reach the
height of the windows that you're trying to clean.
If you are trying to clean and you are overreaching, you put yourself in a dangerous situation,
so if you are wearing shoe covers, you may want to take your shoe covers off unless you
are completely at the right height to clean the windows.
Another thing that we must thing about are also the blinds.
After you get done dusting the blinds, you may want to go ahead and clean the windows
at that time, that's just a good time to do it.
As long as you're cleaning windows, make sure that you clean the ledges below the windows.
These are also known as window sills because you already have your paper towel, your paper
towel already has cleaning solution on it from the Sprayway,
so it's a damp cloth anyway.
It's a great chance to get the corners of those window sills, get out any bugs or any
cobwebs that are there.
Again, you want to go in a S pattern so that you're not going backwards over the area that
you just cleaned, and you want to make sure that you get all of the corners after you've
cleaned the main area of the window.
You want to go back over and get all of the corners so it doesn't leave a little fog or
a film in the corners.
Of course, you want to go in opposite patterns on both sides of the window.
Eww, look how dirty that is.
That came out really dirty.
Yikes.
That's another reason why I like to use paper towels for windows because when you're done,
you just discard the paper towel in the trash instead of having to do laundry then for the
window glass.
You'll notice that the little bag that I'm wearing around my waist, and it's just clipped
on with a carabiners clip so that I can just unclip it when I'm done and toss it in the
trash, but that little bag that I have around my waist, I've cleaned an entire house full
of windows and I've probably used a maximum of 10 paper towels.
If you're going to use paper towels on windows, this is a plug for Bounty.
Bounty does an amazing job because they're so durable and like I said, you can clean
an entire house full of windows with 10 or 12 paper towels, so again, it's working smart,
not hard and making your work smart not hard tools work for you so that you're not spending
a lot of time later on doing wash or what have you.
I have to confess, there's a customer that I had that used to take her liquid makeup
foundation and instead of putting it on her hand as a palette, she would put it on her
bathroom mirror, and it didn't matter what I used, I couldn't get it off the mirror.
I would come back two weeks later and there would be 14 little dabs of liquid foundation
on her mirror that she dabbed her little sponge from to put on her face.
Every week, it was this constant fighting with this customer to try to get off this
liquid foundation that was caked on and dried,
but the Sprayway made it come right of and
it just did an amazing job cleaning it without smearing that around or without creating a
film or a foggy area that other glass cleaners did.
When I first discovered this product, I fell in love with it because it was so different
from everything I've tried.
If you haven't given it a try, I recommend that you do because it's so many uses for
this product, and I'm going to give Sprayway the Savvy Cleaner Seal of Approval.
Now if you use Sprayway, I want to hear about it.
I want you to leave me notes below.
I want you to let me know how much you love Sprayway and if you've tried any of the
other Sprayway products.
I'm just curious, let's start a conversation.
Alrighty, if you found this helpful, please pass this on to a friend
and until we meet again,
leave the world a cleaner place than when you found it.
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