How to Maintain Your Blinds

Ask any person who has blinds in their home and they will say that they have a hard time cleaning them. What is it about blinds that makes them difficult to clean? And are they really that hard to clean? If you are struggling with cleaning your blinds, you are reading the right article as it will tell you the right way to clean them.

Learning about Cleaning Your Blinds

Before we get started, it is important to know that blinds have a lot of attachments that do attract dirt and dust and that means you need to have different cleaning methods for different parts if the blinds. Here is how you can clean your blinds:

Vacuum Them

The first thing that you need to do is vacuum your blinds with a small brush attachment, so that you can get rid of all the excess dirt. Make sure that you use the right brush attachment as that you won’t end up scratching or denting your blinds. It is recommended that you close all the slates, so that you can vacuum all the blinds.

Spot Clean Them

Once you have vacuumed the blinds, make sure that you get work on the dirt buildup as well as the finger marks. Get a damp sponge and clean the blinds in small sections. If you want to avoid water marks, then make sure that you clean with an old towel or with a microfiber cloth.

Wash Them

Some blinds are so dirty that the only way to completely clean them is to bathe them. You need to remove plastic, metal, as well as the painted blinds and immerse them in a concoction made with water and dish soap. Leave the blinds for 30 minutes and then carefully dry each slate with a towel so that water marks can be avoided. This is a great way to clean the hard to reach spots and to get rid of grime.

A word of advice is that this method is not recommended for wooden blinds and blinds that have decorative tapes on them.

Work on the Tapes and Ropes

A lot of blinds have ropes, tapes, as well as white cording area so dinginess can be an issue. If you can’t get rid of the dirt in the white area, a good hack is to use white shoe polish.

How to Make the Cleaning Concoction

If you want to clean your blinds thoroughly, you will need to make a cleaning concoction with a bucket of water, a few drops of dish soap, and a few drops of glass cleaner. If you want to dry clean the blinds, this concoction is not needed and you will only need a cleaning cloth and a suitable brush attachment.

Here are some of the tools that you will need to clean the blinds:

• Bathtub or another large area
• Dish soap
• Shoe polish
• Sponge
• Towel
• Vacuum cleaner with brush attachment
• Water

So, this is how you can clean your blinds and keep them as good as new.