Blinds - a practical solution for any windows. They effectively regulate the intensity of sunlight entering the room, protect against drafts and curious eyes. We will tell you how to care for them.
What is the complexity of cleaning the blinds
Sooner or later, beautiful planks are covered with dust and stains. Curtains could simply be wrapped, but how to wash the blinds horizontal, aluminum and any others so as not to spoil? It all depends on the design and material from which they were manufactured. Therefore, there are quite a few ways to bring products. Despite this, difficulties in the process of washing are common:
- Dry cleaning may not give the desired effect.
- When wet cleaning, the splashes are flying on the glass and frame, they also have to wash.
- Rightly remove the lamella, and after washing, you can hang them in place quite difficult. It is important not to spoil the mechanism.
Experts recommend regularly cleaning, then it will give the maximum effect. Especially if the system is in the bedroom, living room, etc. Rooms. For a kitchen or bathroom it will be clearly not enough. Wet cleaning is needed here. Before it is desirable to cover the windowsill, frame so that they are not swap or at least reduce the amount of dirt. If it is decided before washing to remove the slats, you should remember how and in what order they were fixed. Otherwise, it will be very difficult to install them correctly.
Even the most beautiful blinds are covered with dust and lose an attractive look. They urgently need cleaning
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Than you can wash the bar
Serious pollution with which it is difficult to cope, appear on the blinds quite rarely. Most often it is ordinary dust and a bold, if they hang in the kitchen. For their removal, non-aggressive means are suitable:
- Soap solution, better than good economic. For its preparation, it is necessary to chop part of the bar and dissolve it in clean water.
- Baking soda. Also used in the form of an aqueous solution. Particularly polluted places can be additionally lost by dry powder.
- Owned gel (dishwashing detergent). Gives a large amount of foam, well dissolves fat. In the water prepared for washing, some amount of the drug is poured. Exact proportions depend on its concentration.
- Washing powder. Used in the same way as the kitchen hand. It should be remembered that the composition for manual washing gives more foam, which will then have to wash or flip.
One of these funds will be enough to clean the lamellas. If the result seems not good enough, you can repeat the processing. More efficient drugs should be used with caution, they contain aggressive substances that can spoil the planks. You can get rid of dust without any solutions, it is worthwhile to wash the design with clean water.
The assortment of detergents is very wide. It is important to choose the appropriate composition.
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How to clean the system right on the window
With the blinds of any type you can remove dirt, and do not remove them from the place. Make it pretty simple:
- We translate the plank to the position "Maximum protection against sunlight". As a result, we get a solid cloth.
- Remove dust. It is best to use the vacuum cleaner if it is not, the brush is suitable. In the latter case, the sour cream dust turns out to be in the air and split around the room. To make it easier to collect, regularly moisturize air from the spray gun. In the process of work, you need to change the position of the lamella several times to remove all the dust.
- We look at the plates to assess the degree of their pollution. Based on this, select the cleaning agent.
- We carry out wet cleaning, dissolving a suitable drug in water. Carefully three each strip with detergent. Then we rinse with clean water so that there are no divorces. We wipe dry with a soft cloth without a pile.
We do all this very carefully, without unnecessary effort. Otherwise, you can damage the mechanism. The way is simple, but time-consuming. To make it easier for work, you can use a special brush, which is intended for washing several plates at once.
Blinds can be cleaned without removing from the window. True, this cleaning is not always effective
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A distinctive feature of such a system - fixed on a straight cornice located vertically, lamellas. At the bottom they are going to the guide. To rinse them well, you need to turn off the window. We will analyze how to do everything right:
- Reveal the design, exposing the strips with a solid cloth. They need to spend pressure or erase dust, without it it will fly away.
- We find sidelines on the leading lamellae and open them.
- We take out the weights and chain that are located at the bottom of the planks.
- Remove the strip from the cornice. In the overwhelming majority of cases, they are tissue, so it is easily folded into the roll.
- The parsing process is desirable to photograph or record the main steps. So it will be easier then to collect them. Further actions depend on the degree of pollution of the material. If it is strong, rolled into a strip roll, not unfolding, soaked in detergent solution. It can be a washing powder or a handy gel. The latter is better for kitchen curtains, on which there is fat.
The process of paving the entry is desirable to photograph or record the main stages. So it will be easier to collect them.
The lamellas of vertical blinds are collected in such rolls. If machine wash is assumed, they do not need to turn them out
-->After a while, the dirt will be mocking, and you can begin washing. The easiest way to spend it in the car. Rolls are loaded into a special bag or in pillowcase and laid in the drum. They erase them at low temperatures in delicate processing mode. Spin disconnect so as not to spoil the stripes. After washing, they are unfolded and hang in a straightened state until complete drying.
If you need to wash the vertical blinds at home as a gentle way, you can clean the stripes and manually. To do this, deploy a clumsy roll, take out one lamella and gently wash it with a sponge. Wash the dirty foam with water, we rinse and hang in the massacled form for drying. Similarly, we do with every detail. The dried elements assemble and fix on the cornice, we set all the mechanism nodes.
Each plate ished with a sponge or brush
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How to quickly wash the blinds of the horizontal type
Their feature believes that all plates are attached to the upper element. When laying, they are lowered to the desired height. Unlike vertical varieties, these have side plugs that hold the planks that somewhat complicates cleaning. To wash the product, you need to do the following:
- We remove dust from the plates. To do this, cover them and vacuum, or at least wipe. This will reduce the number of pollution and will not give dust to fly throughout the room.
- Gently remove the product from fasteners. It is done in different ways, depends on the type of fastener. In any version, remove the cornice.
- We remove the side plugs. This is a mandatory procedure. If it is not done, the elements of the mechanism made from metal will rust. Remove the corrosion traces is almost impossible.
To facilitate the washing of blinds, you can purchase such a brush that launders several slats for one pass.
-->The easiest way to wash the blinds horizontal plastic or any others under the shower in the bathroom. If pollution is small, you can immediately lower the plates into the bowl and send a water stream on them. Otherwise, you should soak them first. In the bath we recruit cool water and dissolve the appropriate detergent. We lower the product into a soap solution and give dirt to mock, then go to cleaning.
So that the lamellae will not deteriorate, they do not need to not cry for too long. For example, aluminum plars will be enough 10 minutes, plastic leave for 1-3 hours. Bamboo or tree do not soak at all. Missing the mud is the easiest enough sponge. At the same time, the bar must be deployed in the cloth, otherwise they will stick together and will not be completely cleaned. We carefully clean each horizontal strip.
It remains to wash off the foam. We drain the liquid from the bath and turn on the shower. We rinse the lamella and gently lay on the oil or thick tissue. Wipe dry with a mistless cloth. If you don't do that, there is a possibility of the appearance of divorces on dried items. It remains to hang the design on the window for drying. Side plugs do not yet set. We are waiting for a day or slightly more until all the elements are dried. Then we install the plugs and fix the system on the cornice.
Features of cleaning plates from different materials
Plastic
Plastic strips, perhaps, better than others absorb pollution, but also to wash them easier. They are not afraid of moisture, easily carry cleaning. They can be mashed for a long time and rub the brush. If the spots of the sleeve or fat do not leave, use aggressive drugs, only you first try to try on a poor plot. Plastic is generally resistant to such solutions, but there are also unpleasant surprises.Metal
Susceptible to corrosion, so such slats need to rinse quickly. To soak them for a long time, too, it is impossible: no more than 10-15 minutes. Clean the best sponge, in some cases, for example, for perforated elements, you can apply a brush. It should be soft, so as not to scratch the paint. Good choice - Toothbrush.
the cloth
Very capricious in leaving the strip of fabric. Optimal for them is chemical cleaning. At home, the detergent is selected depending on the fibers present in the composition of the material. Details are soaked in a suitable solution and erased in a typewriter or rub off with a sponge. If there are spots after drying, they are removed by a white eraser. The rolled curtains are smelled in a similar way.
Wood
Tree, straw and bamboo do not tolerate moisture. The plates swell, deform and begin to rot. For this reason, only dry cleaning is used for them. If it is regularly carried out, it will be enough. Wet cleaning is possible extremely rare. It is best for this to use products intended for caring for wooden furniture.
Wide lamellas are very easy to wash with the help of a sock on hand over rubber glove
-->Now it is clear, How to wash blinds to not spoil them. Regardless of the type of lamellae, a frequent wet cleaning with dismantling is not shown. It is advisable to do it no more than two times a year. But regular dry cleaning is required. In order for the plates dust less, it is preferably to process them with antistatic. When the stain appears, you can use a wet cloth to remove it.
