How to Wash your Window Blinds: We are in the process of redoing my daughter bed room. Which include repainting, re-carpeting, and all new to us furniture. The one thing that we did keep in her room was the white blinds. I need them to match all the freshly painted and new items. I do dust them or I tell her to dust them .. but they never look great. So a friend suggested washing them.
My blinds are 2″ wide composite blinds not wood. Our binds are not going get distorted by water.
Disclosure: If you have wood blinds I would proceed with caution (make sure it is a hot day so they dry quickly and will not warp. Because wood if it is wet too long will absorb water and warp. I am not responsible if you destroy your blinds.
If you have older blinds why not give washing them a try because they might come out fantastic like mine.
How to Wash your Window Blinds:
- Dust blinds
- Choose a hot day with the sun-shinning let the outdoors do the work -AKA summer project
- Place sturdy patio chairs or a 2 ladder in the sun to place the blinds on
- Fill a clean bucket with hot soapy water (dish washing detergent) and a large clean/new sponge
- Take down blinds from window bring out side placing top over back of chair
- Make sure blinds are full extended (you will need 2 people) one to hold one to lower the binds, so you can get to every blind while washing them- allows them to dry and dirt to not pool under them
- With a hose spray down the blinds with water
- Then wash each blind by hand with the soapy water & sponge
- Rinse and repeat if necessary
- Allow to dry in sun (towel dry first if you are worried about hard water spots)
- Be sure to tilt the top of the Blind at an angle so the water can drain out as it drys
- When blinds are complete dry rehang blinds..
- Admire your work.
Have fun cleaning them I found it is the best way to make the blinds look new.
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Taking your blinds completely off of the window is a great idea if you want to get them super clean! That way, you can get into all the hard spots, and it won’t take as long either. Then you will have blinds that look new again!
I really like the idea of taking all of the blinds down from the windows to clean them! That would make it so much easier to clean, and it would also make them look so much cleaner! It can be hard trying to clean blinds when they are hanging up, and I never seem to get them all the way clean. Taking them down is something that can be done to deep clean the blinds, and then I can dust them and spot clean them regularly to prevent them from getting awful looking.