We spend a lot of time evaluating products, tips, and tactics to find the easiest, fastest, and most effective ways to keep everything inside and outside of your home clean. In addition to window cleaning tips, we provide a thorough how-to for keeping freshly painted walls. Before utilizing any of the cleaning methods below, it’s a good idea to check the manufacturer’s website for guidelines and safety measures. Then, simply follow the below procedures, taking into account the type of material your blinds are constructed of and how thoroughly they need to be cleaned.
Methods for Cleaning Blinds Without Taking Them Down
Removing and setting your blinds on a flat surface is the best way to give them a thorough cleaning. It is made easier to clean the sides fully and the top and bottom rails, but you may not always have the time or energy to do this. You can vacuum the blinds with a soft dusting brush attachment or dust them with a microfiber cloth, glove, or duster while they are still hanging. Moreover, vacuuming is the only way that we recommend for cleaning real wood, cloth, or cellular shades.
Things You’ll Need
Microfiber rags, dusters, or dusting gloves
Vacuum cleaner with accessories
Dish soap and warm water
Clean your blinds with a microfiber cloth, dustpan, or glove.
When the blind is open, use your glove to grasp each side of a slat or firmly cover each side with the microfiber cloth.
Working your way down, begin at the top slat of a horizontal blind (also called a venetian blind). Cleaning the slat from top to bottom assures you won’t have to do it again when dust from a slat above settles on a slat below. Wipe the slat from left to right. To clean the top side of one slat and the bottom side of the one above it, slip a double-sided duster between them, like as the Swiffer GH Seal star double-sided duster.
When cleaning vertical blinds, start at the top of the blind and work your way down, firmly encircling both sides with your microfiber cloth. There’s no need to worry about transferring dust to other slats; in fact, working from the left-most slat to the right (or vice versa) will make it easier for you to keep track of the slats you’ve already cleaned.
Dip a microfiber cloth into a dish soap and water solution.Use a microfiber cloth immersed in a bowl of warm water with a small amount of dishwashing soap to remove stubborn stains and sticky residue from hanging metal, vinyl, or imitation wood blinds.Wipe the slats with the wet microfiber towel.After pressing out any excess water, wipe the blinds from left to right (or top to bottom if they are vertical blinds).Dust the slats with a clean microfiber cloth.Make sure you clean each slat on both sides to get rid of any water stains or streaks. Use water carefully on real wood blinds if at all possible.
Expert Tip: As soon as you notice your microfiber tool starting to accumulate dust, shake it outside to avoid having to dust your blinds again.
Vacuum-Powered Blind Cleaning
Turn down the suction on your vacuum as much as you can.Set your vacuum’s suction to the lowest possible level and attach the gentle dusting brush attachment. If the vacuum just has one suction setting, make sure it doesn’t damage your blinds. You want the vacuum to collect dust rather than attach itself to the blinds’ slats.
Close the blind, hold the slats securely, and use a light suction.Tighten the blinds and proceed cautiously over the horizontal blinds from left to right. In the event that your blinds are vertical, grasp each slat and vacuum a small area, beginning at the top and moving downward.
Go over each blind again.Vacuum each slat again in the opposite direction to eliminate any possible dust left over from the first pass.
You can open and close the slats in the other direction.After finishing, give each slat another suction, then flip them to close the other side.
How to Clean Bathroom Blinds Spotlessly
The best thing to do is give your vinyl, metal, or imitation wood blinds a deeper cleaning in the bathtub. If you decide to clean your blinds this way, you must make sure you adhere to the manufacturer’s care instructions to the letter. If metal blinds are left in water for a prolonged period of time, they could rust. We do not recommend utilizing this procedure for real wood blinds or cellular shades because the water damage causes damage to them. If you have any doubts about the best approach to remove your soiled cellular shades or about the guarantee that comes with your purchase, get in contact with your manufacturer.
Things You’ll Need: Towels
Dish soap and warm water
linen made of microfibre
Once the tub is lined with towels, fill it with warm water and dish soap.The cloths will shield the tub from blind scratches. Use warm water and a tiny bit of dish soap. Swish to make sure all of the detergent is dissolved.
Spread the slats and lengthen the blind before lowering it into the tub.The top rail should always be stretched over the side of the tub, and only one blind should be submerged in the water at a time.
Soak it for twenty minutes.Using a towel, remove any lingering stains or dirt.
Make the blinds clean.Once the tub is empty, use soapy water to rinse the blinds and then rinse them again with clean water. Using a handheld shower sprayer makes the process of rinsing much simpler.
Make sure the blinds are totally dry before replacing them.Once the moisture has been removed as much as possible using a clean microfiber cloth, spread the blinds flat to allow them to dry completely.
The Good and Bad of Blind Cleaning
Make sure your blinds are clean before you vacuum or sweep your floor. You’ll have to clean your floors again if you don’t!
You should only rehang your blinds after they have completely dried.
Dust your blinds with a dry microfiber cloth before applying water. For wood blinds and cellular shades, don’t use any water at all.
Kindly consult the manufacturer’s instructions prior to cleaning any blinds with water.
Is It Possible to Clean Blinds with Dryer Sheets?Although it’s not ideal, it is possible. First and foremost, you ought to use dryer sheets that have already undergone a drying cycle. Part of the dust on the blind’s slats will be collected by the static attraction of a new dryer sheet, but it will also transfer the fabric softener embedded in the sheet to the slats. If you’d want, you can use old, used dryer sheets to clean your blinds, although a microfiber cloth or vacuum would be more effective.
When Should You Replace Your Blinds?
Window blinds and shades are usually a long-lasting purchase for a house. Most don’t need to be replaced for up to ten years.
There are a few signs you may look out for to determine when it’s time to fix your blinds:
Heat and humidity damage has caused the blind slats to warp, break, or twist. If only a small number of the slats are damaged, some blind makers will fix them.
These days, getting your shades to open and close is almost difficult. With time and repeated use, it’s common for the cords on your blinds to become loose, which can make it difficult to raise the shades at night or let light in during the day.
The blinds and blind cables have faded, yellowed, or are frayed. Eventually, the quality of our household goods will start to deteriorate, especially blinds and other items that are often exposed to almost direct sunlight!Your blinds are out of style or don’t go with your new windows. Windows are not available in a single size. Some window types just don’t work well with other window styles, and different windows call for different shades that are appropriate for the new window’s dimensions.
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