Cleaning venetian blinds at home

whitesatin

We have quite a few venetian blinds in our house, including wooden ones and metal ones.

They are not easy to keep dust free and we looked into having a company clean them for us but the only one we can find taken them down, take them away and bring them back clean later that day. I don't know how much this costs but do you think it is feasible to find a company who will just come in and clean them in situ?

Failing that, is there some sort of special vacuum cleaner or something?

xyz123

whitesatin wrote: »

We have quite a few venetian blinds in our house, including wooden ones and metal ones.

They are not easy to keep dust free and we looked into having a company clean them for us but the only one we can find taken them down, take them away and bring them back clean later that day. I don't know how much this costs but do you think it is feasible to find a company who will just come in and clean them in situ?

Failing that, is there some sort of special vacuum cleaner or something?

Why find a company? Can't you get a cleaner to come and regularly clean....

Doozergirl

I have to admit that easiest way I ever found was to take them down, lay them flat and wipe them that way.

After the house with 17 windows, I stopped buying them!

wallbash

http://www.lakeland.co.uk/23591/Microfibre-Blind-Cleaner

hayday75

I have wood blinds .I find if you dust them once or twice a week with a flick duster this is enough to keep then looking new.(only takes a minute).

Bettie

wallbash wrote: »

http://www.lakeland.co.uk/23591/Microfibre-Blind-Cleaner

similar gadget sold at the pound shop. worked well.:money:

trailingspouse

Close the slats completely and wipe over, then close them completely in the other direction and wipe again.

whitesatin

Thanks for your thoughts on this.

I can't imagine being able to find a cleaner to come to the house just to do the blinds, other than a specialist. I don't need a cleaner now that I am retired and can manage most things.

I have tried those gadgets but there are simply too many blinds to deal with.

I do dust them and it helps but it is the reaching up to beyond eye level that is the problem.

It would not be feasible for me to take them down to clean them on the floor, they are quite heavy.

trailingspouse

Stool? My mother's 83 and she still climbs a stool to clean the top of her dresser, her windows, and, yes, her venetian blinds.

pandora205

My kitchen fitter told me a really useful way to clean the blind (venetian - and greasy), which was to take it down and soak it in a solution of washing powder in the bath. It worked a treat and saved hours of cleaning.

suzeesu2000

I detest Venetian blinds with a passion purely from the cleaning point. Our current house has them in the kitchen, just what you want - grease, dust and splatters all collecting on the blessed things!

I have found having them down to their full length and using the squeegee mop (usually for the floor) with some good hot soapy water works well and the mop reaches high enough. It works in the kitchen so should work with any other room where, I think, I would be tempted to use a soft broom rather than those "special blind cleaner" tools.

Fortunately, I have just cleaned them for the last time EVER as we move out on Tuesday to a house where I shall have cafe nets in the kitchen....Bliss!