WINDOW CLEANING
Get professional with this one and buy the proper equipment - the squeegee especially. You will not clean windows properly without much hard work, otherwise. You wash windows with washing-up liquid solution, and squeegee the window dry. Then you wash the frame and sill and dry with a wrung - out cloth. Work on the upstairs windows before you clean downstairs. Drips and all that.STAINS ON GLASS
Are there, because of a broken gutter or other source of dripping water over the glass. Now you have a problem. Hard water stains will remove with a wash with your acid toilet cleaner or kettle descaler (phosphoric acid for preference) but you have to be very quick with this treatment, so as not to leave the acid on the glass. If the staining is old, then this will be embedded in the glass and you won’t be able to clean it. We've done our bit on glass, several centuries old, and believe me, acid etched glass, dating from 14 century cannot be repaired. All those winds, all that sulphur...........Try to keep running water off glass, and also a continuous source of heat, such as extractor fans. Vinegar cleans glass quite well, but only if it is not too dirty. It will not clean grease and oil off glass. Neither will ammonia which is the world's worse cleaning solution.
To polish glass when dried, rub it with an old newspaper - the silicones in the printing ink will put a very slight protective layer over the glass. We, a professional cleaning business, use this to clean ornate, engraved and antique glass and the difficult glass of a building site. It looks lovely afterwards.
BLIND CLEANING
For those of washable fabric:Take the blind down and put it into the bath tub which will have a solution of water and your good hard surface detergent, in it.
Now leave the blind to soak for a while - overnight would help. Rinse the blind with ashower head of water. This pressure will remove the dirt off the blind without you needing to scrub.
Drain off the blind and replace in the window. If you do not think your blinds will accept this treatment, then leave them and treat as wooden blinds.
NOTE WELL: give the windows a clean while your blinds are in soak Venetian type and other metal or plastic blinds can be treated the same way but must be well dried before re-hanging. Wooden blinds should not be soaked, but can be washed with your hard surface detergent in solution, and then rinsed, by wiping over the slats with a cloth.
JEWELLERY CLEANING
Most jewellery is fragile so be careful with it. If it won't clean with washing up liquid solution, then don't bother. Just wearing jewellery puts a shine on it. Pearls and opals are more delicate than anything else - pearls are best left alone and rejoice in the patina they acquire from your skin. Opals are a water - based stone, and should not be attempted to be cleaned - ever. Many other types of semi - precious stones will react with any cleaning solutions. Acids will almost certainly damage any stone so beware of using lemon juice or vinegar, and heavy alkalis likewise. So take advice from a jeweller if you are at all worried.ULTRASONIC CLEANING
This is the way to clean those small delicate components, but do not use it for your jewellery. For blinds and chandeliers, ultrasonic cleaning is superb. Its action is by sound waves passing through a detergent solution (which is specially formulated for this process) and this causes bubbles throughout the solution.This is the cleaning action - called cavitation - and it is vigorous. So very delicate articles and surfaces can be easily damaged and that is why your jewellery may be damaged.
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