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Electric window cleaner

They seem to make electric everything these days but not a window cleaner. I'm thinking of the insides where I have to employ more elbow grease than my ageing arms can provide to clean and polish. Can anyone suggest anything?

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  • Mummy_Jo
    Mummy_Jo Posts: 496 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Its not an electric method but it does work. We clean our windows using microfibre cloths. One to wash the window with and another to "polish the glass" We bought our cloths from here:
    http://www.e-cloth.com/browse.asp?sid=&viewfrom=0&type=ecloth
    You can get kits for windows. I know that you can get much cheaper microfibre cloths from anywhere these days but we have struggled to find cheaper glass polishing cloths. This is what prevents the streaks. You don't need to use any cleaning detergent at all - just water. I've converted all of my friends and family. Works out loads cheaper in the long run and its not that hard honest.

    Good Luck
  • babyangel10
    babyangel10 Posts: 929 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Combo Breaker
    Hi, I've got a Morphy Richards Grimebuster steam cleaner, which as well as cleaning floors, tiles, ovens etc etc also is great for cleaning windows.

    You just give them a burst of steam, then run the squeegee down the windows, wipe off the excess water and jobs a gudden!

    Mine was about £50 from a (now closed down) shop called Tradex, but there are plenty on eBay too. Lots of rave reviews about this product too.

    It's fab for laminate and tiled floors and has lots of extra accessories for cleaning loos, unreachable grubby bits, ironing curtains whilst hanging etc

    HTH! :)
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