Nothing looks worse than a filthy window on a beautiful summer day. Use these easy techniques for spotfree, shiny windows.

Tools:

• Soft, link free cotton fabrics – old cotton shirts or diapers

• Sponge/squeegee combination with a long handle in the event that you have hard to reach windows

• Bucket filled with lukewarm water, 3 tbsp. ammonia and a spurt of fluid dish soap

• Toothpaste, for scratches

• Q-tips

• Plastic scrubber

Clean windows in the morning if the weather is sweltering. This prevents streaking caused by the washing solution drying too rapidly.  Work on one window at a time. Altogether scour the window with the sponge side of the squeegee. In the event that there is muck adhered to the window, use the plastic scrubber to gently remove it.

Clean the corners with Q-tips.

Dry a strip at the top of the window with the cotton fabric. Pull the squeegee straight down, starting in the dry strip. Wipe the blade before moving to the next section. Mop up the bottom of the window and the ledge with the cotton fabric.

Clean out any scratches with a little piece of toothpaste on a piece of clean fabric.  Repeat with the rest of the windows.  Adhere to these simple instructions and you will have clean windows you can be glad for. We’ve all been fooled by this before – you finish cleaning a window on the two sides, only to find streaks left over. However, you cannot tell which side they are on, so you end up cleaning the whole window all over again. Well let is stop this from happening again.

Take a stab at washing one side of the window with vertical strokes, and then wash the opposite side with horizontal strokes Tips for cleanest windows. Thusly, if there happens to be streaks, you will be able to tell which side they are on based on what direction they run. Hopefully, however, after reading this article you will be able to avoid streaks altogether. As you are window cleaning, make sure that you do wash in a circular motion, and then dry with the squeegee from the top of the window to the base. The circular motion is going to break down the soil better and help to ensure that window streaking is reduced.  Keep these simple steps in mind when you are looking to wash your windows. By following this advice, you do increase the chance you have for success and ensure that your windows are going to look great every time you set out to wash them.