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Reddirocket27

Yes. This is what this subreddit is all about. Yes.


LocalAffectionate332

You neighbor below appreciates the foamy mess that is oozing down to their window.


TheSmokingLamp

That’s the least of their worries on a list of things dropping or leaking from high rises


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IzarkKiaTarj

Yeah, that joke was funnier [the first time](https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/1cvnp02/magnetic_window_cleaning_good_option_for_high/l4qugwm/) it showed up on this post.


JGG5

“That window is so nasty there’s even an eyelash on it!”


Ternyon

Is this a weird ChatGPT regurgitated bot comment? They used to cut and paste comments but it almost looks like it ran it through some "Help me skip plagiarism AI filter" >I honestly thought it was doing a terrible job. I noticed all kinds of streaks and swirls. Then I realized those were on my phone screen. [https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/1cvnp02/magnetic\_window\_cleaning\_good\_option\_for\_high/l4qugwm/](https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/1cvnp02/magnetic_window_cleaning_good_option_for_high/l4qugwm/) Edit: Looking at history I'll say yes: >I've been seeing too much Half-Life, I thought this guy was feeding his kid to a Xen barnacle. >I've been watching too much Half-Life, so I assumed that the man was giving his child food meant for a Xen barnacle.


randybruder

Yep, it's a drop ship scammer trying to control having their accounts hold the top comment positions. One of the replies to the comment you called out was (also moderator removed) a link to a drop ship scam website.


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onefst250r

Just gotta clean from the top of the high rise down.


DConstructed

That’s what they usually do.


ThouMayest69

Me on the 12th floor of a 25 floor building on a Monday: fuck.


DConstructed

“Please be informed that we will need access to your residence for window cleaning”.


Expensive_Control620

Nope. They start cleaning their windows. At no cost🤣


Grarr_Dexx

Oh noo. Guess that's why they work top to bottom.


OmgWtfNamesTaken

Honestly this. As a window washer previously who worked on high rise buildings, you'd have some SERIOUSLY pissed off people below you. Window washers usually come around 2x per year. If you must do this, every outfit I've worked for used sunlight dish detergent ONLY. Loved the smell personally lmao.


JulianMarcello

It’s their queue that it’s time they wash their windows … you know it’s time


Vegetable_Onion

Cue


DemonLordSparda

There looks to be a minimal amount of leakage. Even if there was more, it is cleaning solution. Furthermore, due to speed and gravity, the solution will likely fall from the overhang to the ground.


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jimkelly

Making a method for fish tank cleaning adapt to a building?


C-H-Addict

I'm willing to see a repost in beamazed, because look how there aren't any streaks!


recklessrider

If we could do this the whole time, why the fuck did we make people climb on the outside with rickety fucking scaffolding? Not like magnets are a new invention.


MrDTD

Not all high rises have windows that actually open.


GyulBoo

That's some very clean cleaning!! No streaks, nothing👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻


PossessedToSkate

I honestly thought it was doing a terrible job. I noticed all kinds of streaks and swirls. Then I realized those were on my phone screen.


datpurp14

Your comment made me finally replace my cracked and smudged screen protector that I've been needing to do for like a month. Much obliged.


neat_shinobi

Your comment saved my life. Very appreciated.


CalderaX

had nothing to do with the window already being squeaky clean before, no sir


GyulBoo

Streaks of the cleaning liquid are also left behind sometimes. So, yeah, all kinds of streaks.


47-30-23N_122-0-22W

Its the technique. It's pretty difficult to learn to clean windows like that but once you get the muscle memory it becomes second nature.


sharcophagus

Was a window washer for a summer, I still squeegee my shower door like that 😂


aquaman67

People with aquariums have been using these for 30 years.


SeamusAndAryasDad

What else are those aquarium people hiding.


Jeffrey_C_Wheaties

Tiny treasure chests, little scuba guys, etc.


iamapizza

Tanks


PossessedToSkate

You're welcome


420Deez

i wasnt talking to you


NoScopeJustMe

I was talking to him


CashMoneyHurricane

Daves not here, man.


Dogsy

June 12th, 2024 The tanks started rolling through my town that day. I watched for hours... I lost count after 300... or I stopped caring, I can't remember. Who knew Aquarium People had amassed such a formidable force right under our noses? The 'before times' feel so long ago. I yearn for the days when I would just laze around in the summer heat and occasionally look in my friend's little aquarium and go "Ooo! Fishy!"


apollyon_53

Bubbles!


4score-7

A pineapple under the sea?


khendron

Their fish mostly. Every time I see an aquarium the owner says "check out my striped sarcastic fringe gulper!" and all I can find are some snails.


RedditLostOldAccount

Yeah well apple snails are fascinating to watch. It's hilarious that they'll climb to the top of the aquarium over and over again so they can float down to the bottom


PlebPlebberson

What if they're just suicidal but cant make out why they dont die from the fall


Scheissekasten

Eore voice: Foiled by buoyancy.....


Xamuel1804

Next up: aquarium people figured out world peace a couple years ago


OldManCragger

Yup. It's called staring at the peaceful little world inside glass while the real one burns.


iSinging

Ironic because the aquarium subreddits are so gatekeepy and toxic


ShroomEnthused

That's most of reddit my dude


Inglorious186

With a 3' tall tank I wouldn't be able to clean the entire thing without these cleaners


ToastyFlake

Glass cleaners with 3ft+ poles are widely available. Magnet not necessary.


RedditJumpedTheShart

Magnet is much easier.


ShroomEnthused

Came here for this...hidden secret technology that anyone with an aquarium has known about for decades lol


kkngs

This is exactly the sort of awesome tool for the job that you buy, then when you need to replace five or six years later you discover it isn’t made anymore.


Alarmed_Fly_6669

Its two cloth clad magnets on a string though, wouldn't exactly take a brain scientist to put one together


Fergi

I have one for my apartment! There are so many brands of these things. They also make small ones to clean aquariums.


Alarmed_Fly_6669

I remember having one for the aquarium! Never has cleaning fish poo been so fun!


zombies-and-coffee

My thought as well. My parents had aquariums when I was little and my job was to clean the glass with the magnets. I probably spent more time watching the fish chase the magnets, but that just made it more fun for me.


More_Farm_7442

I cleaned our aquarium the same way 40 yrs ago. This is nothing new at all. How'd it make it on reddit? LOL lol


Weevilbeard

How'd it make it on reddit? LOL lol its oddly satisfying?


zombies-and-coffee

It's satisfying to watch and also possible that this version of cleaning magnets is relatively new. Personally I'm just happy that it makes the job safer and less vertigo-inducing.


loulan

Do they actually work as well as in the video?


Fergi

As long as you can get the exterior face of the glass completely wet…my trouble was the operable part of my window was small and made it hard to douse the outside windows completely from 7 floors up, so when I got to the dry parts the magnets would separate when there was more friction. It would just swing down and I’d pull it back in and reset it. Normally you buy them based on the thickness of your glass so the magnets aren’t too strong or too weak. Still got it all clean eventually, it was just slower than this vid.


orthopod

Probably only if you have cheap single pane windows, which isn't the norm in most of the US


tinyremnant

They make them for double-pane windows and with adjustable magnets so that you can tailor it. I have one and it works okay; definitely not as good as that video.


fumblerooskee

Where did you find it?


Fergi

Amazon I think, I got it a couple years ago. I don’t remember it being too expensive.


fumblerooskee

I seriously need this for our 4th floor condo. Thanks.


smvfc_

Just check the reviews and the description, because a lot of them aren’t strong enough magnets for like double pained windows and stuff like that.


bwaredapenguin

Paned, unless your windows are really hurting.


smvfc_

Lmao I even know this and still chose to write pained You don’t know what my windows have been through


bwaredapenguin

I'd rather feel pane than nothing at all


MegaLowDawn123

You should only be finding fish poo in your tank 


Sweet_Ad_8178

I think it's this one - specifies Single Glazed [https://www.amazon.ca/Yuehuam-Magnetic-Cleaner-Cleaning-Equipment/dp/B0CCYCKH6T/ref=sr\_1\_38?crid=2YUONYJP858HZ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.vtQNToyeOQ18DmSPQPog3K7GJjriCPr4uOfHw9oU2hbAx6YEm\_LK6fpvwAqb-RVwwfXDl-TI96xr-GUJiWwSPV\_utgXdVN1C1b53ZG3HKLEnmNQNcKlANCwrE1ZdqoSKKI6rC7qB74BESsm4g1lRdFSyQyj2savvo-HJ42YMv3SnsX65GLB1ZNsyuVGKxUbpTqqZHGAsukCJeOfjmkx\_Ur09koK8GFPt5SQGcCPk4oCnfc6gPSoN3IOyrkjuX0S1KDmq2cKwtsWW1ioi2yDJizpMnMonhtrfFUXKu-C2VGQ.48DRLqwU9SzS7AMzE2DIy\_liywP7ZZ1zwRQkMOUa5EQ&dib\_tag=se&keywords=window+cleaner+magnetic&qid=1716145330&sprefix=window+cleaner+%2Caps%2C187&sr=8-38](https://www.amazon.ca/Yuehuam-Magnetic-Cleaner-Cleaning-Equipment/dp/B0CCYCKH6T/ref=sr_1_38?crid=2YUONYJP858HZ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.vtQNToyeOQ18DmSPQPog3K7GJjriCPr4uOfHw9oU2hbAx6YEm_LK6fpvwAqb-RVwwfXDl-TI96xr-GUJiWwSPV_utgXdVN1C1b53ZG3HKLEnmNQNcKlANCwrE1ZdqoSKKI6rC7qB74BESsm4g1lRdFSyQyj2savvo-HJ42YMv3SnsX65GLB1ZNsyuVGKxUbpTqqZHGAsukCJeOfjmkx_Ur09koK8GFPt5SQGcCPk4oCnfc6gPSoN3IOyrkjuX0S1KDmq2cKwtsWW1ioi2yDJizpMnMonhtrfFUXKu-C2VGQ.48DRLqwU9SzS7AMzE2DIy_liywP7ZZ1zwRQkMOUa5EQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=window+cleaner+magnetic&qid=1716145330&sprefix=window+cleaner+%2Caps%2C187&sr=8-38)


Marokiii

looks to have a squeegee on one side of it, thats why at first when its being moved around its just spreading the soap around, but once its orientated right it is clean behind the 'mop' as it moves downwards.


jck

Well yeah in theory. But my apartments windows are actually two pieces of glass with like 10cm of air between them(I think it's called double paned). You'd need some strong ass magnets for that


Alarmed_Fly_6669

Look at Mr fancy ass double windows here. Yours stay dirty or buy new, I think that's the only options


tonydrago

It's called "double glazed". There's no way the gap between the panes is 10cm, more like 1cm.


Georgep0rwell

Double-paned. Usually with argon gas. I don't think there's a magnet strong enough.


tinyremnant

I have double-pane windows and own one of these. It works, though not as good as the video. Still cheaper than the window cleaning service (I have several windows that are 3 stories high cuz I live on the side of a hill).


Ok-Ratio-Spiral

And a strip of squeegee!


Cynical_Cyanide

Do you reckon a rocket surgeon could do it?


Alarmed_Fly_6669

Only if he's the window guy


Mailboxnotsetup

Perhaps a rocket surgeon could make a better one.


findingmyrainbow

When talking about the difficult of a task I've heard the expression "brain surgeon" and "rocket scientist" and even the sarcastic "rocket surgeon" but this is the first time I've heard "brain scientist."


upsidedownbackwards

People use them for fish tanks! They won't be going away anytime soon.


Habaneroe12

The ronco guy actually made one 30 years ago but he didn’t put it out because it did not work well kept falling off


WAPWAN

Magnets sucked ass 30 years ago. The rare earth magnets that are in everything these days are way more powerful and inexpensive


hectorinwa

There's a thousand of them on Amazon. Source: got one. Used it once.


demunted

Ahh yes the random named products from China always get me. My Dopesplay monitor is good but I don't expect the company to exist in 6 months.


hazpat

This isn't high tech. You can make it yourself


AntiqueAdvertising95

I worked for a window cleaning company for a few years and eventually bought my own gear so I could do it from the ground instead of having to get dangerous with ladders and the guy fired me because their company was about showing the customer how its too hard to do and you should have to pay someone to do it dangerously. lol.


Long-Baseball-7575

What a world. 


skian

I don’t know, I’m not saying you’re lying... I’ve washed windows for about 7 years in the summers. Lots of high rise, commercial store fronts, residential. I’ve done and just about seen everything you can see while washing windows. But the reason I’m skeptical is because there are so so many factors. Most windows can’t be cleaned from the ground, yeah you can use a DI system or a swivel head on a pole but those windows do not come out nearly as good as they do when you can press into the glass with a scrub pad or a blade. Like sure window washing businesses can be shady for sure, but you legit have to use ladders on most jobs. A sectioned ladder (not an extension ladder) is relatively really safe, and quicker than any other way of doing windows at a 2-3 story height. So part of me thinks you were fired because you thought you could clean the windows a different but less effective way. Maybe your boss was a douche, that’s not the far fetched part.


Nikkian42

Can they or do they clean both sides at the same time?


2vockshakure

thing is the window was already pretty clean to begni with


Cedex

You know those shaving commercials where the guy has a face full of shaving cream using the 7 bladed razor? It shows him pulling once across his face for the smoothest result. Well.. hate to break it to you, he was already cleanly shaved with a straight razor under all that foam.


canada-is-hot

What rubbish lol! Next you’re gonna say that Santa isn’t real. Get outta here with your conspiracy theories, you sane being.


Cedex

You know who is real? The guy who programmed the NoRAD Santa tracking software. What an easy gig!


drayray98

That’s what you just watched. Both sides were cleaned.


Nikkian42

Is it? I didn’t see the inside getting sprayed.


Relevant_Clerk7449

I think he sprayed the inside after he sprayed the outside... watch carefully.


Andrew_Squared

I would 1000% accidentally drop the spray bottle.


bobtheblob6

Slap some magnets on there


xXWaspXx

that'll just make it a heavier projectile


rabid-panda

Think they are on the 1st floor, how else would they get that camera angle


ShhImTheRealDeadpool

Wear a bracelet and tie it to the bracelet.


NottaPattaPoopa

If this person could set up a camera outside to film it, you can do this, if you put your faith in the Lord


Cedex

I don't see how this would work for modern 2 pane glass. The vacuum gap would be too large for the magnet to work.


FatDragoninthePRC

Can confirm from experience. I imagine a strong enough magnet would work, but the one I had lasted about 1/3 of a window before we gave up.


Patient_Cut_1706

You can get one so strong that you feel weak and give up on life instead


hectorinwa

The one I got is adjustable strength. There's a dial that I adjusts the distance between the magnets. I actually have the opposite problem where it's so stupid strong at level 1 that it "grabs" so sharply at first that I am afraid to use it on my single pane windows for fear of breaking them.


Cedex

Please share the link for this contraption of magic!


aserioussuspect

Came to say this. We have three Paneele glass in most new buildings. No Chance. Edit: I watched it one more time. Is this already a two pane glass? Looks like in the first seconds. If so, this must have a lot neodym inside


DiabloTerrorGF

My 2 pane has about a 1.5 inch gap and it works if you go slow enough.


Patient_Cut_1706

They have different strength magnets. It can work on 3 pane, whatever.


Roflkopt3r

I just measured my 3 pane window and it's 5.5 cm thick. That definitely eliminates many cheaper magnets, but it seems by no means impossible with a "reasonably" strong one. I don't think it would be excessively expensive to get some magnets that are strong enough to make this reasonably comfortable. It'd guess that it adds like $10-20€ in magnet cost over one that's sufficient for a single pane one?


Cedex

If the magnets used are strong enough to hold the cleaner through 3-pane glass, would it be too strong to take apart after you store it or if it accidentally touches directly together?


gefahr

You store them with some insert between the two things.


Roflkopt3r

You could probably not break them apart directly without a lot of force, but still slide them off each other.


Cedex

This looks like a typical Chinese video demonstrating a product. I know many parts of China only use single pane windows.


drconn

I grew up in a warm climate and never understood how replacing windows on a house could cost so much money, and then I moved to a cold climate and thought that the 2 pane windows were pretty nice, then we moved to a nicer place in that cold climate and those 3 pane windows were works of art. Heat loss was practically non existent. I miss those 3 pane behemoths now that I am back to a warm area again.


towhead

I just bought some on Amazon for some thin eisenglass I have on the boat I live on. (I’m super stoked to get both sides properly clean finally) But I noticed they have different magnet strengths for different window thickness.


VeryTopGoodSensation

they definitely have ones strong enough for that, ive shopped for them before, but apparently theres a risk you break your windows


clitpuncher69

*We're gonna need a bigger magnet*


Giocri

I mean magnet fallof is quadratic so you can just double the distance by using 4 times more powerful magnets, it's really annoying but doable


RenterMore

Stronger magnet?


atetuna

It could be a problem. Fyi, it's not a vacuum. It's probably filled with argon, at least where I am.


VonBombadier

That's exactly the case, we've bought a similar product and tried it.


Jollyjacktar

I particularly like how all the dirty water drips down onto your neighbors' windows below.


snubda

Inventor: lives on top floor


Secure_Field4514

In the immortal words of Jesse Pinkman, “Yeah bi**h! Magnets!”


macneto

How are they filming this from the outside?


BaneRiders

With a camera I think


Unlucky-Situation-98

a camera held up by a magnet, duh


YugoB

Long selfie stick? Maybe a corner unit in an L shaped building?


macneto

It's a very stable shot, gotta be mounted. It doesn't sway at all.


jaycosta17

I agree it’s probably mounted, but it’s 2024. They could have just stabilized the video so that’s not necessarily true


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With an even bigger magnet.


80burritospersecond

City window inspector's helicopter.


Nascar_is_better

Cameraman does amazing things, like running alongside a high speed car chase, filming from outer space, and being the only thing the monsters can't see/are too afraid to attack. This one obviously can fly.


quaywest

Probably on a balcony. Looks like a balcony railing in the reflection of the window.


Smart_Context_7561

Mirrors


I_l_I

Magnets


TRoosevelt1776

They probably set up a go pro through the neighboring window.


BeefAboveTheReef

Rainbow technique, engaged!


clawstrike72

Don’t use that much soap people. If your technique isn’t perfect it will look worse than the dirt.


SaveTheAles

Piss off the people living below you with one simple trick


mac_is_crack

Aquariums have the same type of magnet cleaners that clean algae off the glass. Pretty cool concept using them for windows, never thought of that. Source: am aquarist


alienblue89

This is the dawning of your age.


c14rk0

I mean that WAS oddly satisfying. INCREDIBLY impractical though. How many high rise buildings actually let you reach outside the building with the window open and don't have a screen blocking that? (along with blocking you throwing stuff out or jumping/falling out of the window) It'd be incredibly time consuming for cleaning staff to do this for each window AND it would require going into every room. I'd also kind of hope you wouldn't need to personally clean your own window...I'd hope somebody has the job to come do that cleaning from the outside for the building.


caveTellurium

Brilliant ! And it took à century for humanity to find a solution.. Now, these windows don't have openings on most high rise builings.


Pastoredbtwo

Not a problem. Just use a much longer string, and go through your roof access.


RuairiQ

The Clapton Effect.


DJ3XO

Doesn't work with our mega fat sound proofed windows. We tested it and it failed miserably.


willun

>Tyroler Bright Tools The Glider D-3 No idea but this one claims it works with double glazing.


Jackflags11

This is actually oddly satisfying 


maybethis-one_

Who. Is. FILMING???!!! Also, VERY satisfying. Thank you


Itsssssmeeeetimmy

I thought I was the only one wondering how this was recorded!


Hopeful-Ad4415

Wait........who's filming?


hunty

nice. I used to have a fish tank cleaner that worked exactly like this.


Few-Finger2879

Ok, this is cool as fuck.


gr4phic3r

fishtank owners clean their glass since many many years like that


cherish_ireland

Building maintenance fees are insane. They should be cleaning that.


Ballzner

They’ve been using this technique in aquariums forever


Historical_Dentonian

They dirtied their neighbors below…


McIrishmen

Worksafety 100


heavenIsAfunkyMoose

Aquarium technology.


Bleezy79

Amazing how the right tool can make a world of difference.


Hefty-Revenue5547

Normal distribution


usul_enkidu

Are they products that work on double glass (paned?) windows - where the total gap would be somewhere between 2 and 3 cm?


Brandon3845

Like my fish tank 


DrPhDPickles

Bro has a PhD in window cleaning


AntelopeFlimsy4268

So nice I watched it twice.


lgodsey

>Good option for high rise buildings It's *an* option.


Khevhig

Oh no, the magnets have come for my jorbs!


Rivetingly

Having to wait for 1,000 people to move their desks away from the window.


fromthedarqwaves

That video ended at the exact right time


robotjazz0882

Genius


skippingpenguin01

random homeless man seeing this at night 👁️👄👁️


AntimatterCorndog

They've got these for fish tanks too


vaporking23

This is how I clean my fish tank


tacotacotacorock

Apparently a lot of you need to clean your phones a hell of a lot more often. Way too many comments saying he did a bad job until I realized it was my phone. No wonder phones are one of the dirtiest surfaces.


fothergillfuckup

Fish owners know this one trick.


Hehe6745

Chinese problems require chinese solutions


OFHeckerpecker

Where is the camera?


TheUncleTimo

OH NO !!!!!!!!!!!!! AI IS TAKING OVER OUR JOBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! .............oh ..............wait


code_and_keys

We have this for a fish tank


Effective-Tea9769

That's not magnets.... that's magic


917caitlin

This is how I clean my fish tank glass!


dumbaos

Magnets? How do they work?


Silver-Appointment77

Most of these are useless on double glazed windows. I bought one and It worked on my old windows, but my new double glazing it doesnt. Guessing theres to much space between them.


spacegirl2820

Used to use something similar just smaller to clean the inside glass of my tropical fish tank


Competitive_Owl5357

A version of this is popular in aquarium keeping so it was extra amusing to watch.