cleaning venetian blinds.......

Quasar

Wear a pair of old socks as gloves and run your hands along the slats. Cuts down on cleaning time. You may need to use more than one pair though, depending on how big the blinds are.

mah_jong

I did try earlier this year but its not easy climbing onto the units and avoiding the sink and cooker!!! Standing up, I hit the ceiling, kneeling I cant reach the top bits!

They are back up and I have to say look like new,

tawnyowls

Lulubells wrote:

I have found closing the blInds and then using one of those duster trapper disposable thingy's - what are they called... the ones where you change the brusH/cloth thing........... I forget now - anyway, I find that gets mine clean - sometime with a light spritz of polish first.

That's exactly what the chap who came round to measure up suggested for mine. Seems to work very well. One of those small anti-static dusters every so often round the cords removes any dust caught between them.

tomandkath

I have two aluminium venetian blinds that need cleaning, after I foolishly left them in the bedroom that builders were ripping apart! They're beyond a wipe with a wet cloth, as cord etc is ingrained with dirt. Am considering putting the smaller one in the bath for a good soak, but imagine I might regret that. I'd welcome anyone's experience of this please. It's mainly the dirty cord that is stumping me.:eek:

Norma_Desmond

Couldn't you shower them? I'd certainly have a go; my blinds are wooden unfortunately; they look great but are a real dust trap!

RacyRed

tomandkath wrote:

I have two aluminium venetian blinds that need cleaning, after I foolishly left them in the bedroom that builders were ripping apart! They're beyond a wipe with a wet cloth, as cord etc is ingrained with dirt. Am considering putting the smaller one in the bath for a good soak, but imagine I might regret that. I'd welcome anyone's experience of this please. It's mainly the dirty cord that is stumping me.:eek:

Wierd! I've been puzzling out how to tackle the same job as I have aluminium blinds too and they are a real (inherited) mess.

I thought a soak in the bath with cheapo biological powder might be the answer to the ingrained dirt on the cords problem, but one of the three blinds I need to clean is way to long to fit in the bath.

I'm going to give it a go with my 2 smaller blinds today and see if it does the trick.

Anyone got any suggestions for the long one please?

tomandkath

I think I'll go for little one in the bath with detergent and then rinse it off, but like racy-red one of them is far too long for the bath. Even if I did an end at a time, the middle bit would still be black LOL!

RacyRed

well the blinds look much better, including the big one, but boy was that hard work!:eek:

tomandkath

Did my back a bit of a mischief, bending over the bath, but well worth it! Haven't tried the big one yet. Did you do half at a time or did you come up with another cunning plan?

lil_me

Blind cord - put into water, drop a denture tablet in, works a treat on mine (also use on bathroom pull cords) If it doesn't come off easily and you can't sit a cup high up try it with a showergel bottle with a hook on, only tried it once, did water the same with denture tablet in, put cord into bottle, fastened lid on and hung it off the blinds.