What's up everyone? Welcome back to The DurbIn Compound! My name is Devin Durbin, if you haven't
met me already. So, as you can tell, we're probably in a different setting than we usually are.
Today we're at Buckeye Sun Control in Marysville, Ohio. Behind me is my buddy, Josh.
How's it going guys? Josh-what he does is he's a professional window tint installer. He also does
clear protection film. Just about any little after-market thing you want to do on your vehicle,
he can help you out. So, they're located in Marysville, Ohio. buckeyesuncontrol.com is their website.
I'll put a link to it in the description below, so that you guys can check them out.
So, what we're going to do is probably a three part series on how to clean glass,
what to expect when you go in a window tint shop, and just basic overall, you know, maintenance and
things like that when it comes to window tint. So, I hope you guys enjoy. We're thinking about doing a promo.
So if you guys see this video and you're in the area, and you want to come get your car done,
if you mention The Durbin Compound to Josh, what he'll do is take off 10% off your total
at the end of the day. So, he's giving everybody a hookup. So if you see his video...
see this video...and you want to hit up Josh at Buckeye Sun Control in Marysville, Ohio, he'll be more than
willing to help you out. So, I hope you guys enjoy and let's roll on to the content.
All right, so what I wanted to have Josh go over first is basically how to clean the inside of the windshield and, you know,
you were talking about pre-tint clean. Yah. And so would you base it like having
just regular clean and pre-tint clean? Is that completely two different things? It is because I think
the pre-tint clean is more about like removing dirt and anything that could show up
under the film. And then your post-tint clean is more about no streaks..not having any streaks left.
So the first thing we'll do is we'll wet it down. We just use Johnson's Baby Shampoo and water,
mainly because it has nothing--no chemicals in it that's going to change the color of interiors,
or fade your leather, or anything like that. And then we hit it with what's called a Scotch-Brite pad, which is
just abrasive enough to clean off any dirt, or anything like that, but won't scratch your windows.
Okay, sweet! And that's for the pre-tint clean? That is for the pre-tint clean. Okay, so would you
recommend--you said earlier that the tint really can't be scratched by anything. Can a Scotch-Brite
pad scratch tint? It would scratch tint, yes. You really wouldn't want to clean your windows with this
after your tint was on. This is just to get any dirt really off of your glass or weld sparks
we see sometimes from welding near a vehicle get on it and you can't even really see them. Okay. All right.
All right, sweet! So let's go inside the vehicle and see what you do. So what I do when I'm cleaning the
outside of windows without tint is, I just go ahead and wipe them off completely first. I'm not trying
to get streaks out. I'm trying to go really...of course it would happen. No big deal!
All right, so getting back down before the phone rang. Let's get back at it. So you clean the outside,
not worried about streaks. Yeah, not worried about streaks. I'm just trying to get all the dirt out
from the edges, or anything that when I actually do clean the window to eliminate the streaks,
isn't going to run back into my window. You know what I mean? So I'm just trying to get literally all the
dirt off of it. Okay. So I hit around the edges real hard. Then I just wipe it down. And I'm still just
using that Johnson's Baby Shampoo for this part, because once again, I'm just trying to get dirt off.
Okay. And then like, you know, if you have bird guts, or bug guts, or spray off from paint, you can
use that Scotch-Brite on it and it'll...Okay, sweet. It'll wipe it right off there. So it's something
that you could always use on the outside of the windshield to clean it? Yeah, exactly, just not on tint.
Okay. Yeah, I've seen a lot of guys use all kinds of stuff to even--actually polish--like machine polishing the
glass on the outside to get it like super smooth and clean, razor blade, stuff like that. And I'm sure...yeah, yeah
we use razor blades sometimes on some of the heavier stuff. I don't have a polisher.
I've never done that. That might just kind of scare me. That's kind of getting anal with it.
Yeah, you don't need to machine polish the glass. And I'm actually surprised that you
use Johnson's Baby Shampoo on the outside. To me that formula would have streaks like crazy. And it does.
It totally does. We're not going to use that for our final clean. I mean the shampoo in it, like you said, does dry on the window and leave those streaks.
But it's all about just getting the dirt off. I don't really even think it matters what you use
the first time. Gotcha. And then, moving on to trying to get the streaks to go away.
I use Invisible Glass. Okay. Once again, I don't think product matters a whole lot. I mean, I think there's
good stuff and there's crappy stuff. Right. And I want to use the good stuff. But to me, you basically have to wipe down
anything you want streak-free twice, with two different paper towels. If you wipe anything with
a paper towel that's even damp, it's just going to leave streaks. And if you leave any product of
any kind on the window, it's going to leave streaks. Okay. So basically you're just trying to get every ounce
of everything off the window. Right. Okay. So then I'll hit it with the Invisible Glass and I'll
wipe down literally about that much of it. And I can tell my paper towel is getting wet because it's
starting to leave streaks, as opposed to just leaving it totally dry. So I'll flip it over.
And I'll do it again. See and I think that's where I go wrong when I'm cleaning glass
is that I have...usually keep a little bit of product on the paper towel
because I feel like the towel lints too much. And then it dries. So the second time I clean it,
now I'm not even done with this side, I will barely spray it with my cleaning stuff. So I mean
there's hardly any product on there at all. Okay. And I use a fresh, dry paper towel again. Okay.
And just wipe it off again. And this way we're for sure leaving zero product on it. Gotcha.
And to me...and those are just basic white paper towels? Basic white paper towels. Like you said, some people
like the microfiber, but the only advantage to a microfiber is to not scratch your paint.
And there's just absolutely no way a microfiber, or a paper towel, or anything like that, is ever going to
scratch your glass. It's just too dense. Right, and I think sometimes people use microfibers because
they think it just picks up more dirt. But that dirt gets trapped inside the microfiber and you're
using the same towel for the whole process. Yeah, so that's why it's leaving all kinds of product.
And then I've also found that, still if you have any streaks, you can just wipe it with the dry paper towel
and that's going to pick up any lint that's left because the paper towel getting moist
is actually what's making that lint fall off of there. A dry paper towel doesn't leave any lint.
So I had the wrong theory. I had it backwards. You got it backwards, yeah. Yeah, so if there's still any streaks,
I mean, you can just wipe it again with the dry paper towel and it will remove any streak that's left.
Okay. All right, and so I know you do a lot of stuff with blue shop towels too, the shop paper towels.
Now that's for tinting. Typically we use that, yeah, just for the tinting on the inside
to remove...and that will... blue towels leave zero lint. So that's what we use
those for--not for cleaning. I mean, no moisture ever touches those. We just use those to wipe down,
right before we tint, to remove any lint. So we'll see that in a few. All right, cool. Carry on, sir.
See then basically what I'll do between the two sides is fade out and fade back in. Okay.
If me switching sides, or anything messes anything up, just tell me we can redo it. Oh no dude, you're fine. like that's the
whole reason for my channel is I wanted to have a little bit more candid. Like I'm not going to
leave a lot of, you know, conversation out or anything like that because, yeah, it's supposed to be candid.
I don't want like overproduce the video. Yeah, I hate that kind of stuff. Yeah, too fake or whatever?
Yeah, and then like people roll in all kinds of BS and it just...it doesn't make it seem very personal.
Okay. Or like, yeah, if the phone rings, like we put it in the video, you know, and then we
cut out say, "Of course the phone would ring." Yeah, that's kind of cool. It's just like actually what happens in life. Instead of we like
rerecord it like without the phone ringing. Yeah, yeah. All right, so now we're headed inside?
All right, so now let's go ahead and go over the inside. So now we're talking about cleaning a window and
preparing it to have tint put on. So, we got the Scotch-Brite pad like I said. And for a windshield,
which I'll get some paper towels, it's always important to cover any electronics, obviously.
And once again, we just use normal paper towels for this. You know, we just...I think it just really
helps how much they absorb. And on top of that we just use so much paper towels here that
using anything else would become really expensive. Yeah. I bet you guys go through
like a crate of paper towels a week. Almost a day...24. You'll go through that many in one day?
Almost 24 rolls in one day, yeah. Oh my goodness. We buy a new one almost every day, depends on how busy we are that day,
but most days. So I just rub it down with that. Really, I mean, you can feel it hit anything hard.
And you can feel it scrape it off, you know. So you can pretty much tell. And I mean, that's a
really clean windshield already. I'm sure you keep it clean. Yeah, for the most part. It's you know,
this vehicle is old enough that we don't have off-gassing or anything like that, you know,
where most of your stuff is already, yeah, you know, gassed-off and you don't have that nasty, greasy film anymore.
Okay, so you already went over it with the Scotch pad. And then, kind of similar
to the outside. The first wipe over I'm doing, I'm making sure I'm really putting a lot of pressure
on these outside because any dirt you leave, even on the smallest edge of any window,
as soon as you get it wet, with that tint on there, it's just...all that dirt's going to fall right down
into the film. It's not going to stay up there. I gotcha. And then I don't worry about cleaning the bottom
half of the windshield right now too much because it's just going to drip a bunch more water down it anyway.
Then same thing, I'll run over everything, my dry side of my paper towel, just to take off
anything more there might be. Then we use the blue towel. I use a fresh one on every single window.
I just feel like it needs to be extremely clean. It's really important. They leave zero lint.
So we basically just use them to pick up the lint that our paper towels left them cleaning.
And you don't want this to get wet because like we talked about earlier, any wet paper towel is
going to start to leave lint...and fall apart basically. Yup, I had the completely opposite theory of that.
All right, so right now Josh is going to go ahead and cut the strip for the front windshield.
Then we're going to install it on the inside. I'm not going to give away any of his trade secrets
on how he does his work. So, we won't be doing any of that stuff. But we'll definitely go over how to
clean the windshield after he gets it done. And make sure it's spic and span when it's that time.
So, we'll cut on to that and we'll see you guys then. Okay now that Josh has already
gone through and put this tint on the windshield strip here, or put the tint strip on
the windshield, we're going to go over how to clean it and talk a little bit more about how
to care for tinted glass. So, we did a couple talking points off camera, but now we're
going to go over like this is what you would call a post-tint clean, right? Yep! Okay, so you're on man.
Let's do it! So the same as cleaning the outside of the windshield--the first thing we're going to do
is we're just going to make sure we get every bit of, you know, large chunks of soap, any dirt.
We're going to clean the bottom of the windshield and get all the dirt off of that.
And we're going to pay close attention to the edges again and make sure that there's no dirt
on the edges because that's just the most important part.
And me personally too, I find that actually not like just scrubbing the window
but going kind of slow like this and giving it a chance
to absorb some of that water, helps a lot. Okay. So yeah, that's kind of...the less product you leave on
the window, in my opinion, as far as not having streaks, is 100% what matters the most,
not the product, not even necessarily the paper towel or what you're cleaning it with,
but just any water, or any product you leave on that windshield at all, will turn into a streak. Okay.
Yeah, I think that's most of my problem is that I use a microfiber or
something and I'm holding all that water in it. And I'm way, way too far into it.
So then, same thing when we clean the outside, which we'll do again because it's got
all sudsy from cutting out the windshield strip. But the second time I clean it,
I put real light material on there because I've gotten most of the dirt off. I've gotten most of the
water off and now I just want to clean it and have it be streak-free. Gotcha! And fresh paper towel
every single time. Fresh paper towel with every single thing I do. I never reuse one.
Like I said, if you see a streak anywhere, you can literally just wipe over it with your dry paper towel.
You just kind of scrub on it gently for a minute and it will go away. Okay. Hey, look! There's the phone again.
There's the phone again. The phone means money. I mean same thing that we've been talking about.
Basically we're going to use a good amount of product on that first clean.
And I spray it on to the edges of the car a little bit too because you get overspray. And you want it
to be nice looking, you know? Right. And I always wipe that first because you don't want to wipe
something dirty and then wipe the paint and, you know, pick up any dirt you have on the window and
wipe it across the paint. True story! Yep! So yeah, usually after a car wash or something like that,
it's going to be pretty decently clean already. Yeah. And you're just kind of
getting the streaks off of what was left from, you know. Just to make it a cleaner looking job in total. Yeah.
Then we'll wipe this all off. And it's not a big deal to not change my paper towel after wiping off
that paint or anything like that because we're going to do that second clean to get
all the streaks off anyway. Gotcha! So one of the talking points that me and Josh had off-camera
was that...you don't need a lot of supplies. Like I think that too many times people get carried away
with glass cleaning and they're like, yeah you need this spray, you need three different products. You need all this crap. you need...
because a lot of people get wrapped around the waffle-weave microfiber towels. And like I just...
they streak like crazy. And it's because they hold so much crap in them. And then, you wipe it once
and it's keeping the Invisible Glass, or wherever the product in the towel,
Yeah. So no matter how many times you wipe it, it streaks. And I'm like losing my mind.
They try to advertise those towels to you like they're not going to streak.
And I mean, it just makes no sense because exactly like what you just said.
I mean, you're reusing those constantly. All that dirt and stuff is just
staying on that towel. Yeah. It's not like it's just disappearing. Yeah. so take it from a pro
that cleans glass all day, every day--literally all day, every day--that you don't need anything fancy.
You just need some paper towels and a good glass cleaner. And like, you know, they're just kind of hit and miss.
I just used them...use different ones until I found one that I really felt worked the best,
which I do think is Invisible Glass. Cool! I know a lot of people like Invisible Glass too.
I mean it's a good product. I mean, there's a few out there that I'd say are all pretty equal.
See, a pretty simple video on how to clean a windshield for sure. I think I might do a completely separate video about
how to just clean like side glass and around the edges. Okay. You know, like rolling down the window or...
Yeah. We might roll that into a whole other, separate video. That's fine. And I've never really
thought about going slow with the paper towel. I know I see you do it a lot. Uh-huh. But you're slow and deliberate.
But I mean if you can just kind of tell, you know, it leaves almost nothing behind. Right!
Just because you're picking up every bit of that water and product. And like too often I'm like wiping it fast.
Just like that. I wipe it fast and then I have my wet paper towel when I just keep
wiping product back onto the windshield. Now I don't know if you can see, but can you see that streakiness right there still?
I'll have to come over and look at it. Okay, yeah. Do you see that patch of it? Yeah. I'm not going to put anything else on there.
Okay. And just wipe it off. See it's just completely gone. Nice! Okay, sweet. I like your techniques.
Off to what now? Sweet! I don't know. Let's tint the side windows and go over that and get into that.
So let me wrap up the video here. All right guys, so we went over basically how to clean the windshield. We put the tint strip
up on the windshield. How to clean it inside and outside. Take a tip from a pro on exactly how he did it.
I think he definitely came up with some good points...stuff that I wasn't
even thinking about...that I was like holy crap, you know, me keeping the paper towel wet because
I think that it lints too much. There goes the phone again. Not going to stop me! But yeah,
like I kept the towel wet, instead of dry. And it turns out that leaving it wet,
you know, leaves a lot more lint. So, there you go...tips on cleaning your windshield and how to do it.
He even used a Scotch pad on the inside. So, some stuff I wasn't even thinking about to get dirt off,
and all that crap. So, hope you guys like the video. This will be just one of the series
here at Buckeye Sun Control and tinting the Land Rover. So, we'll see you guys next video.