How do you clean venetian blinds?

[Weatherlawyer]

How do you clean venetian blinds?

I wouldn't have imagined it was anywhere near as difficult to do as I found it. What am i doing wrong?

[Bill Wright]

There's no need to clean them. The filth does not affect their function.

Bill

[Jim K]

Pressure washer

Jim K

[Jim K]

Pressure washer

Jim K

[Chris Hogg]

Not knowing what you're doing ATM means it's not possible to say what you're doing wrong. However, you can get multi-fingered sponge-tipped tongs for gleaning VBs. Search on Amazon for 'venetian blind cleaning', although how practical they are, I don't know.

[DerbyBorn]

Chris Hogg wrote in news: [e-mail]:

I remove them and take them outside and hang them on a clothes line then use a very soapy solution and a soft car-wash brush.Done it for years - no scratching and they sparkle.

[Brian Gaff]

I did mine in the bath with a sponge.

They are dust traps though it has to be said. Brian

[Mr Pounder]

There is no easy way, I've tried everything. The tools on Amazon have very poor reviews and I have tried some. I've found the "best" method is to squirt them with kitchen cleaner then use an old wet sock to clean every slat. Keep rinsing out the sock in clean water. Turn off brain as you do the job.

[GB]

Have you found whether it helps to take it off your foot? :)

[Tim Watts]

On Sunday 22 September 2013 02:20 Weatherlawyer wrote in uk.d-i-y:

Take them off, put 6" hot water and clothes washing liquid (Persil etc) in.

Dip the blinds several times - IME it all falls off without scrubbing.

Rinse well.

[Mr Pounder]

If you mean use the bath we can't as it is full of coal.

[John Williamson]

Eeee, you've got a bath? Luxury.... (Someone had to.)

[spuorgelgoog]

Take them next door and ask Jerry if you can use their bath when Margot's at her opera club.

Owain

[Jim K]

Gasp - but where do you bathe the whippets?

Jim K

[Lobster]

Chris Hogg grunted in news: [e-mail]:

I do, from experience. They're utterly rubbish.

Last time I had to do it I laid the blinds (ie closed) on the kitchen table and washed them down flat with a sponge etc. That was rubbish too, mind.

[Weatherlawyer]

Thanks all for the proceeds of your wit and wisdom. I am glad is wasn't just me to fail the blind cleaning test.

I started with the worst one, the kitchen one, which bore the brunt of several failed dinners one of which required the fire brigade to put out.

[Broadback]

The easiest and permanent cure for dirty venetian blinds is, of course, an angle grinder.

[DerbyBorn]

Broadback wrote in news:l1oouj$kl6$ [e-mail]:

I believe that using plenty of detergent is the key - use the power of the cleanser to disolve the greasy dirt - rather than try to rub it off. Bath for small ones - clothes line and car wash brush for big ones.

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