3.27.2015

Let the sun shine in: Tips for cleaning windows, curtains, blinds

If you are like some people (ahem), the windows have applied treatments and never a second thought, even if there is dust, it might be the time of payment respect.

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No need to insist on adding a new task to your spring cleaning to-do list: You do not have to clean curtains, blinds and windows have often and often it is not that hard ..

"We have the experience, the windows and curtains are something that people avoid cleaning, because they are not sure of the best way to do it," said Betsy Goldberg, director of the House Real Simple Magazine.

"It's difficult," he added. "Just a little while."

If simply removing dirt does not clean enough note that dust Reason boring fabric curtains and blinds. Can remain household odors. Washing and gentle on fabric, especially for window treatments that are given a daily dose of sunshine, says Tammy retail Kupernik country curtains.

"When the lava, the sun will break the discussions," he said. "Washing remains vivid colors keeps the sweet son, adding that the life of the curtain."

Curtains and Draperies

Window treatments should be cleaned in the year, according to experts once or twice, and the best method depends on the material. Some can be replaced with a vacuum cleaner in the washing or cleaning, while others require a professional.

Read the care label or instructions that came with the product: Some items are only clean and dry. If the instructions are not available, experts general guidelines:

Most or silk curtains are lined likely need cleaning, Kupernik said.

Curtains that are misaligned or are washed separately in the rule engine in a short, gentle cycle in cold water, he said. The facts from a mixture of poly-cotton usually go in the dryer on medium heat, but cotton to dry the curtains made from 100 percent to prevent removal.

Curtains and blinds isolated from a storage layer that keeps the cold can machine in a short, gentle cycle washed in cold water and air dry, Kupernik said. If pages isolated touch during drying can start and ruin the curtain.

Curtains should machine cold, Kupernik be washed in a short, gentle wash in water and line dry, adding that the two boards can be touched Light said. When curtains get the high heat of a hair, wrinkles are permanent, he said.

After the curtains to clean dust from the mother before hanging up.

If you do not want to fall, Goldberg offers this method to clean the curtains unlined lightweight fabric, pure or semi heer: Close windows and blinds, curtains and spray with a product remover wrinkle releaser / smell. With a spray fabric bag, from bottom to top in sections 1 foot, keeping the steam line about an inch of fabric.

For curtains, which are often aligned generally from heavy fabrics like brocade, velvet or suede and and fold each panel in white on a low level with the brush, keeping blank about an inch of the fabric Goldberg says.

The curtains and fabric blinds, except silk can be cleaned usually with warm water and mild detergent such as Woolite place Kupernik said.

Other blinds and curtains

Roman blinds cleaned with a vacuum cleaner or a brush roller, Kupernik said. Vinyl curtains can optionally be cleaned with a sponge.

Goldberg proposes wooden shutters vacuuming and cleaning each leaf with a cloth in a mixture of water and soaked a few drops of detergent, wipe excess moisture with a dry cloth. First, the angle of the wings is down and wipe each slide together and repeat.

To clean the cables, pull the shade all the way up and up and down, damp cloth followed by a dry cloth. If you have a bar, follow the same steps with the cloth.

Windows

For windows when the glass is very dirty, you can clean every few weeks. "Actually, when people move every few months, that's fine," Goldberg said.

, Sweeping dirt under delivered before cleaning the screen and the window with a brush like the one with the scoop or vacuum dust collection. Spray glass cleaner or a mixture of water and a squirt of dishwashing detergent, then wipe with a microfiber cloth, starting from the outside and the inside of the window, moving in a movement of "S" - more than from front to back - to prevent soil redeposition.

Goldberg suggests that cleans in a horizontal movement inside, outside, vertical, so that you can easily find strips and wipe the areas again. Clean on a cloudy day because direct sunlight makes the glass cleaner too fast, streak-free.

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