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What’s the difference between Glass Gleam-3 and Glass Gleam-4?

March 1, 2023 By Titan Labs Leave a Comment

The most common question we hear is “What’s the difference between Glass Gleam-3™ and Glass Gleam-4™?” Well, I’ll tell you that, and then I’ll tell you about Glass Gleam-Solar™ and Glass Gleam-Glide™ too.

Glass Gleam-3 was our first foray into the window cleaning world. We learned quite a lot from the feedback we got from our early users. GG-3 is a super-concentrate; one gallon makes 1,280 gallons of ready-to-use window cleaning solution. For the professional, this is great – only 1/10th of an ounce added to each gallon of water. For other end-users, it means that one quart will probably last them their whole lifetime. Since GG-3 doesn’t contain surfactants (heavy detergents like dish soap) or sodium lauryl sulfate (fake bubbles), we needed to add a dye so that users can tell if its been added to a bucket by looking at it. After some testing, we chose a non-staining orange dye. It turns out, that if your window cleaning solution is not blue, the automotive industry won’t buy it. Bummer. Also, the professionals that had learned to fan their squeegees in dish soap would actually add Dawn or Joy to their GG-3, effectively destroying GG-3’s ability to do its magic. GG-3 isn’t soap, instead it’s some really good science. It uses a water conditioner that makes the water clean effortlessly.

Here I need to pause and briefly explain how this works. See, when glass is made, it has to cool down from around two thousand degrees Fahrenheit down to room temperature so that it can be cut and stacked. That means that the glass is coming out of a furnace and into a process called the tin bath. It will then get cooled down slowly, annealed (strengthened), and air-cooled to its final temperature. Meanwhile, the side of the glass floating on the tin will be perfectly smooth and under a microscope will still look smooth like you’d expect. The other side (the top) is exposed to air and under the microscope will look like hills, more like what you’d expect if looking at a lava bed. These imperfections aren’t visible to the naked eye – you need some pretty serious magnification to see them at all. We refer to the as pits and pores because they hold dirt onto the pane.

Now, when you mix surfactants with calcium (hard water) it doesn’t foam up, instead it creates a soapy and slimy scum.  Chemical blenders know this so they add sodium lauryl sulfate, or an equivalent foaming agent, to produce an artificial bubble/foam (it’s usually the second or third ingredient). That’s supposed to make you think it’s working. Instead, this all becomes a mixture of the soap scum it created, the fake bubble residue, and the calcium, which makes a sludge-like goop that fills these microscopic pores on the surface of the glass and slowly destroys window tracks.  Avoiding that goop by using a professional solution clears up the microscopic pits and pores, and allows light to fully penetrate the glass and return glass to its intended condition – clean and free of residue.  The glass will sparkle as the light bounces around it.

So, your squeegee will make a window look and feel clean, but these micro-pores are now loaded with the original dirt and an extra buildup of the goop.  As soon as the next day’s dew-point comes around, it’ll start weeping from these pits and pores. Undetectable at first, but that’s why a window will look dirty again after only a couple of weeks after you’ve cleaned it, depending on the weather. 

GG-3 clears everything from the glass, so there’s nothing to attract or hold anything, from pollen to soot, etc. and keeps it that way.

Also, since we don’t add any counterfeit bubbles, and we break down the calcium in the water, you’re left with a perfectly clean new-like pane of glass that is truly clean, and stays clean for a long time.

Next up is GG-4. With feedback from our GG-3 users, we added more of the wetting agent so that it won’t dry in windy or hot conditions, increased the amount of calcium buster, more de-greaser, and colored it blue. Adding these extras cost us some of the concentration, so one gallon will make just over 500 gallons of ready-to-use solution. That’s just ¼ ounce per gallon of water, so price-wise, it’s still just a few cents per gallon of water. This is our #1 selling window cleaning solution.

One day, back in 2009, I read that the US Army’s number one problem was fuel delivery runs. The enemy somehow always knows when and where to attack. So they announced they’d started working on a fold-able, mobile solar panel array to be delivered in 2025. The thing that really caught my attention was that they were promising these new panels would be able to function at 88% efficiency. That means that all the existing panels that run between 12-18% efficiency will be replaced. And these new panel operators will want them to be clean and stay that way. As a US Navy veteran, I know that when the military sets out to do something, they do it.

So we took the basic formula for GG-4 and added a lot more of the wetting agent, de-greaser and calcium killer to make Glass Gleam-Solar. You’ll never see spots, pollen, or anything else on a panel cleaned with GG-Solar.  It’s applied, agitated if needed, and free rinsed, even with city water.

By getting into this space early (in 2009), GG-Solar is considered the professional go-to choice for solar panel cleaning solution. It’s not soap, it’s science. And it works. At the time we were developing GG-Solar, we talked to a lot of solar panel owners and installers. We were fairly surprised to learn that cleaning and maintenance weren’t considered very important to installers, and homeowners too were left scratching their heads to figure out how to clean them. All anyone wanted to talk about was installation and profits. We knew there’d be a change coming and wanted to get ahead of it.  Now we have distributors in 9 countries, and 2024 will be our 40th year in business.

Lastly, what’s this stuff Glass Gleam-Glide? Well, it’s easy: it’s silicone in solution to give window cleaners more glide. Just a few drops in your bucket and whoosh! More slide than dish soap, that’s for sure. For years, we didn’t make this and I must’ve heard “I just shoot some Dawn in there” a thousand times. I saw that there were some slip agents in the market, so I ordered them to test. What I learned blew me away: They were just dish soaps! Now, by now you must know that anything made with surfactants is going to leave an invisible residue, so my idea of recommending users buy these other products was out. I asked our lead chemist if we could do it and he said “Yes” and here we are. The instructions say to add 1/10th of an ounce per gallon, but I tell folks to just add a drop or two and keep going until you get the slip you want.

Window cleaners that learn to fan with dish soap sometimes complain about the lack of slip and visibility when switching to our professional solutions. So, hopefully they’ll stop adding dish soap and use the GG-Glide instead. We’ll never be able to increase the visibility, since that would leave a residue. Plus, since there’s no fake bubbles in the track, there’s no cleanup!

Now here’s my favorite part: You don’t have to take our word for it! To get a free sample of any of these professional solutions, just send your name & address to Info@TitanLabs.net

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IWCA 2020 Roundup

March 3, 2020 By Titan Labs Leave a Comment

One of our favorite things we do each year is attend the International Window Cleaners Association trade show.  This year we enjoyed historic Savannah Georgia as we exhibited on the banks of the Savannah River.  That was nice, but the really nice thing about this show is that we get to see so many of our distributor friends as well as meet the many end-users of our window cleaning solutions.  And we get to say thanks to all that showed up to support the IWCA – and our unique products!

Direct feedback is something that we crave and this show provides that for us.  Hearing from users allows us to answer questions, develop and or improve products and see what types of opportunities may exist.  Window cleaners are some great story tellers and much of the time spent at the show is just fun casual conversation.  As a novice window cleaner, watching the speed and medley contests is also eye opening.  These window cleaners are good!

Our booth in Savannah – IWCA 2020

We were a year early on our giveaway items (poker chips) as we learned next year will be in Vegas!

So Much Value!

A bunch of window cleaners in Vegas?  What could possibly go wrong!

Looking forward to finding out!

Thanks to all that showed up to support the IWCA and will see you next year. Visit www.TitanLabs.net for more information.

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Another Successful National Paving Expo!

February 25, 2020 By Titan Labs 2 Comments

Here in the far reaches of the Lab, we’ve finally settled back in from the annual National Paving Expo in Nashville, TN, held just a block from Broadway in Music City USA. So MUCH FUN!!!

Broadway At Night, Nashville, TN

First, thanks to all of the good folks that took the time to stop and talk to us! Second, allow us remind you of our main message this year:

As the internet becomes more and more a part of how we expand our reach, our distributors can offer the 5-gallon pails and the 55-gallon drums of our products, but don’t need to stock them. We’re getting the word out that not only do we have all the free marketing materials necessary, but we’ll drop ship these items for you – anywhere in the world!

Jamie Smith and Alan Noah at NPE 2020, Nashville TN

Everybody knows that if you buy in bulk you get a better price by volume. And that’s true for our products too. You can save anywhere from 8 to 12% when buying in bulk. And we also offer 275-gallon totes! (These aren’t stock items so they take a day or two, but the savings is even greater!)

Here are some great quotes we heard during this year’s show:

 “You guys make the best product in the industry! I can’t believe how many times we’ve used your product to save our bacon” – Howard B.

“How come nobody else makes a pro product like yours?” – Michael H.

“We use Oil-Flo every day.” – Tom C.

And lots more just like this! We brought and gave away over 100 sample bottles, commemorative poker chips, stickers, and more! Plus, we ran our demo what seems like a thousand times. Do you know the most common question we get year over year? “Can Oil-Flo take sealer off a garage door without harming it?” Answer: YES! And it’s easy!! Contact us or visit our videos page at www.TitanLabs.net to find out how.

If you haven’t tried it, consider giving Oil-Flo a chance. You can make old tools and tanks look new again and all you need is some water!  Oil-Flo does all the work for you. Contact us today for a free sample.

Apply Oil-Flo, Agitate & Rinse with Water!

So, big thanks again to all the friendly people that came to our booth!

See Ya Next Year!

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Titan Labs’ Guide to Cleaning Eight of the Most Common Holiday Stains

December 17, 2019 By Titan Labs 2 Comments

Red Wine on the Carpet or Couch

This Holiday Season brings us a chance to show you how our unique products can be used for everyday spills and mistakes. Whether it’s the office party or a home get together, use this guide to keep everything looking and feeling great.

Should anyone accidentally spill a glass of red wine on your carpet or couch, don’t panic. While the stain is still wet, lightly blot the spot with a soft towel, preferably light colored, then cover the stain immediately with a layer of salt. In 15 minutes clean up the salt with either a vacuum cleaner or brush off into the trash can. Spot wash any remaining wine with water mixed with Titan Green™ Multipurpose Cleaner.

Titan Green Multipurpose Cleaner. Concentrated and can make up to 75 gallons of solution. Visit www.TitanLabs.net or call +1 800-475-3300 to learn more.

Titan Green Multipurpose Cleaner

Grease on Your Apron or Shirt (or gloves, etc.)

Cooking anything greasy means possible grease stains on your Apron or shirt. You can remove the stain quickly and easily. First, soak the stained area immediately with a few good sprays of Titan Green Multipurpose Cleaner. After a few minutes, rub in a little Oil-Flo 141 Specialty Cleaner, and put the item into the washing machine right away. Before the item goes into the dryer, check that the stain is completely gone. If you still see it, lay the apron face-down on a towel, then pour Cleanup Solvent-22 through the back of the stain, and launder once more.

Oil Flo-141

Oil-Flo 141 Specialty Cleaner

Titan Green Multipurpose Cleaner. Concentrated and can make up to 75 gallons of solution. Visit www.TitanLabs.net or call +1 800-475-3300 to learn more.

Titan Green Multipurpose Cleaner

Cleanup Solvent-22 evaporates quickly and works on all kinds of stains and adhesives. Visit www.TitanLabs.net or call +1 800-475-3300 for more information

Cleanup Solvent-22
(Not available in California)

Chocolate or Syrup on the Dining Chairs

If a dropped (or thrown) piece of chocolate or a squirt of syrup lands on your dining room chair, remove the excess carefully (an old credit card or piece of card from the mail works great) since you don’t want to push the stain further into the fabric. Then, using a sprayer, spray some Cleanup Solvent-22 on the stain. (Great for carpets and fine upholstery, Cleanup Solvent-22 is a professional solution that you should keep around the home or office. Using a blotting technique (put a white towel over the stain and repeatedly hit with a rubber mallet or the bottom of your palm) soak up the solvent, and repeat this process until the stain is gone.

Cleanup Solvent-22 evaporates quickly and works on all kinds of stains and adhesives. Visit www.TitanLabs.net or call +1 800-475-3300 for more information

Cleanup Solvent-22

Cranberry Sauce on a Tablecloth or Napkins

Your cloth napkins will take a lot of abuse during a holiday meal, and some of the most stain-prone smears can be caused by that ubiquitous (means “a lot everywhere” – I had to look it up) cranberry sauce. Flush this stain with cool water on cloth as soon as dinner is over. Then, spray a good amount of Titan Green Multipurpose Cleaner (1:15 ratio) and add a tablespoon of white vinegar into a quart of cool water.  Wait 20 seconds for the Titan Green to do its thing, then soak the stain in the vinegar solution for 15 to 30 minutes. Rinse it off to see your results. If the stain remains, spray with Titan Green and soak again, using the same vinegar mixture. Sometimes the makers of canned cranberry add a coloring agent (dye) that just won’t come out all the way no matter what you do. These tablecloths and napkins are for the kids table next year!

Titan Green Multipurpose Cleaner. Concentrated and can make up to 75 gallons of solution. Visit www.TitanLabs.net or call +1 800-475-3300 to learn more.

Titan Green Multipurpose Cleaner

Gravy on the Tablecloth

Don’t be surprised to find a brown-tinged ring wherever the gravy boat sat on your tablecloth. If you can catch the spillage in action, use a cloth to remove as much of the excess gravy as you can, without rubbing it in. Later, spray the stains with Titan Green Multipurpose Cleaner, then wash either in your sink or washing machine with the hottest water you can get. If the stain remains, soak it in bleach water for 20 minutes, then either rinse in the sink or launder again.

Titan Green Multipurpose Cleaner. Concentrated and can make up to 75 gallons of solution. Visit www.TitanLabs.net or call +1 800-475-3300 to learn more.

Titan Green Multipurpose Cleaner

Butter on a Table Runner Cloth

Believe it or not, the best start to remove butter stains starts with a butter knife (a clean one).  Using the knife, scrape the excess off, and apply a good amount of Titan Green Multipurpose Cleaner directly to the stain. Wait about 30 seconds, then launder your cloth. Sometimes it helps to pre-treat the stain before laundering with a quick shot of Oil-Flo 141 Specialty Cleaner, and set the machine to the hottest water the fabric can stand. If the stain remains, try using Cleanup Solvent-22 and the afore described blotting action.

Cleanup Solvent-22 evaporates quickly and works on all kinds of stains and adhesives. Visit www.TitanLabs.net or call +1 800-475-3300 for more information

Cleanup Solvent-22

Coffee on the Carpet

Immediately blot up as much of the spill as possible. Spray the stain with Titan Green Multipurpose Cleaner, and let it dwell for about 10-20 seconds. Blot the remaining stain by placing a white towel over the stain and hit the stained area with a rubber mallet. Move the towel between hits with the mallet. This technique works best on carpet since every action has a reaction. By hitting down hard on the stain, it actually winds up sending the force of the mallet blow upwards into your towel.

Learn the cleaning secrets only the pros know! Get it cleaned and get it cleaned right with Titan Labs’ unique products.

Titan Green Multipurpose Cleaner. Concentrated and can make up to 75 gallons of solution. Visit www.TitanLabs.net or call +1 800-475-3300 to learn more.

Titan Green Multipurpose Cleaner

Wax Drippings on the Tablecloth or carpet

If wax drippings have dropped and cooled on your tablecloth or carpet. Using a clean cloth, sparingly apply Oil-Flo 141 Specialty Cleaner to the dried wax and let it dwell for 10 minutes. Using something like a credit card, scraper, or putty knife, scrape up the wax. Oil-Flo 141 will make the dried wax let go of the cloth. Be careful when doing this to the carpet since you DON’T want to saturate the carpet down into the under-layment as it could cause de-lamination of the carpet. If you do accidentally saturate the carpet, simply soak the area with plain water and use a carpet cleaner or shop vac to pull the water out.

Oil Flo-141. Dissolves all kinds of adhesives. Rinse with water.

Oil-Flo 141 Specialty Cleaner

To learn more about our unique products, please call +1 800-475-3300 or go to www.TitanLabs.net and you’ll see our twelve fine products. If we ever develop a product that doesn’t out-perform everything else, we won’t make it. We also don’t use hazardous ingredients; so you can be certain you’re using the best available product.

Titan Labs 2018 product line

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How Do I Remove Tar?

June 19, 2019 By Titan Labs 2 Comments

How do you remove tar, sealer, and asphalt? That’s easy: Use Oil-Flo Safety Solvent. You could try paint thinners, diesel, kerosene or some other chemical, but they all leave a residue and can be pretty harmful to you and your environment, not to mention what they could do to your tools and equipment.

Application Easy as 1-2-3:
1. Apply Oil-Flo
2. Agitate until clean
3. Rinse with water

Even though Oil-Flo is in a class by itself, the best reason to use it is that you can use it on any surface. Vehicles, clothes, concrete, virtually anything that isn’t made with oil or oil-based. When we take Oil-Flo to our trade shows, we hand out these little one-ounce trial-size bottles, and we run out pretty quickly every time!

Oil-Flo one ounce sample size bottle
Oil-Flo Sample

Removing tar, sealer and asphalt with such an efficient solution as Oil-Flo really does remove all the stress associated with this ‘permanent’ problem. Spills, accidents, line breaks, and straight up mistakes can make using tar based products a real pain. But Oil-Flo takes that away. Just apply, agitate, and rinse it with water. Problem solved! Works on oil, grease, paint, marker, tape residue, and loads more.

How can you remove tar, sealer, and asphalt from any surface?

Oil-Flo Safety Solvent in all sizes
Oil-Flo is available in pints, gallons, pails, and drums

What’s happening is that Oil-Flo makes a covalent bond with the tar, sealer, or asphalt. In that state, the problem has been turned from a solid to a liquid (E-Mulsified!). If you clean it up with a rag at this stage you’ll notice that it’s not very easy to do. BUT, if you rinse it clean with water, Oil-Flo makes another bond, this time an ionic bond, to the water. It literally becomes dirty water. And nothing’s easier to cleanup than water!

Oil-Flo removes the stress of working with tar based products.

You see, you can’t make a problem stain disappear, you can only move it from where you don’t want it to where you do. Oil-Flo does that for you. Imagine going to work tomorrow with equipment and tools that look new again? Get all the sealer out of your work clothes, and off your equipment, off the tanks, trucks and out of your life. But hey, don’t take my word for it, hop onto our website www.TitanLabs.net and ask for a free sample to try. Visit us on Facebook too. Just tell ’em Alan sent ya!

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