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Cleaning windows or windshield spotless/smearless

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Edward Buker:
Richard,

If you take Windex and pour a small amount in a partial bucket of water, so it is a very diluted solution, that solution will do the job.  Use a clean sponge to wash the window and a scrubber sponge with a mesh for the bugs as needed. You will find that it cleans well and does not evaporate so quickly. You then use a squeegee and blade off the solution, wiping the liquid off the blade with a cloth as you go. You need a good suitable squeegee that will conform to that window. That is a streak free method that professional window washers use although the solutions may vary. We seldom go through this level of "detail" on the motorhome but do use this method at home. If we were full timing and staying put for awhile, and the streaks were an issue, that is the technique we would use.

If paper towels are involved at all you will get streaks.

Later Ed

Joel Ashley:
Part of Richard's problem may be his location.  When I've tried washing windshields at the coast it was made more difficult by the incessant blowing fine mist.  It is nearly invisible in the air even in the best of weather, but it's still there.  When drying, you may be just working in sea minerals and not know it.

I've sworn by Ed's method too, as that's the way pros do it.  But on our curved windshields, squeegeeing inevitably left streaks - ghosts of the squeegee edge.  But in recent years I've reverted to my folding ladder, Bug Off and 20/20, a good pump sprayer rinse bottle, and hand washing and drying with clean terry cloth.  Usually done in the cool evening or when the sun is off the glass, after a day's drive.

Getting wax on the windshield doesn't work for us since we occasionally find ourselves driving after dark;  the wax may keep bugs and dirt from sticking but it augments glare from headlights.  Siliconeing with Rain-X would be better, but it depends on an immaculately clean surface and is an awful lot of work.

Joel

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