How To Clean Your Blinds With Ease

When it comes to a bit of spring cleaning there’s one aspect we tend to neglect – cleaning the blinds. But clean blinds can make all the difference in your home! After all, when the summer or even winter sun pours in through your window, the last thing you want is specks of dust to be illuminated alongside it. Thankfully, cleaning your blinds is actually really simple and won’t add on too much time to your cleaning routine.

So, for the best way to clean your blinds, the best way to clean venetian blinds, and some top tips for washing vertical blinds or fabric blinds, continue reading, below.

Now, the key benefit of blinds over curtains is that they are lightweight and easy to adjust with just the turn or pull of a chord. However, these same features can present issues when it comes to keeping them clean. You can’t take them down and chuck them in the washing machine like curtains, but with the right equipment, cleaning your blinds is simple. Take the Gtech Multi, for example. Light, cordless, and handheld, this vacuum easily handles even the most awkwardly placed blinds.

But aside from that, what other equipment is useful to clean your blinds? See our full list of essentials, below:

• Multipurpose cloths
• Lubricating spray
• Fabric stain remover
• All-purpose spray cleaner
• Water
• Soft broom
• Soft cotton gloves
• Dishwasher soap

With all your essential tools and supplier to clean your blinds sorted, let’s get into how to utilise them to keep your home spick and span!

First up, how to clean your vertical blinds, and more importantly, how to clean vertical blinds without having to remove them! So, vertical blinds require relatively limited maintenance to keep them looking good. Typically made from PVC and practical fabrics, cleaning vertical blinds is quite simple with these handy steps.

1.      Start with your vacuum with the dusting brush or crevice tool fitted. For cleaning blinds with thicker, accumulated dirt – like cobweb build up – use your open ended crevice tool.

2.      To truly deep clean your vertical blinds, pick up a vertical blind cleaner. A multi-pronged duster that fits around each individual blind, you can wipe down multiple blinds at once, eliminating dust as you go.

3.      Once all loose dust and dirt is removed, simply wipe your blinds down with a damp cloth.

And that’s all - you now have lovely, clean vertical blinds!

Fabric blinds may look lovely when installed, but they are prone to grease and watermark stains, which can be tricky to remove. But don’t worry, we’ve got all the tips and tricks to make light work of cleaning your fabric blinds.

1.      Before we tackle any stains, let’s get rid of the dust first. Simply run your fabric cloth along the surface of your fabric blinds to leave a nice, clean surface for stain treatment.

2.      Next, if there are stubborn stains present, treat the area with a fabric stain remover. Make sure you follow the application instructions on the treatment, and you’ll have your vertical blinds looking good as new.

3.      Lastly, don’t forget to clean your blind’s headrail, to do this effectively you will have to unclip each individual blind. Then use your vacuum’s crevice tool to clean around and between the headrail mechanism.

4.      Once all the loose dust has been removed, spray along the length of the headrail with a lubricating spray and refit your blinds for smooth, convenient operation.

Now, step back and enjoy your handy work – job done!

Cleaning venetian blinds can be an intricate and time-consuming job, but with our advice, you’ll have venetian blinds as good as new in no time! Now, there are two ways you can clean venetian blinds depending on how deep of a clean they need. First, we’ll look at a basic clean of venetian blinds, and for this you won’t need to remove them from the window, it’s perfectly safe and simple to leave them on the rail.

1.      Put your venetian blinds in the closed position so that you can see each slat, to make any grime and dirt easier to spot.

2.      Add the dusting brush to your vacuum and work each slat from left to right to remove any loose dust – the brush has been designed to avoid marking any of the slats whatever the material.

3.      Spray the slats with an all-purpose cleaning spray. If you’re got metal venetian blinds, window cleaning spray works well too.

4.      Slip on a pair of soft cotton gloves, preferably a pair you don’t need anymore, and use your fingers and palms to wipe off the spray. The gloves eliminate risk from the slat’s sharp edges.

5.      Lastly, remember to repeat the process on the other side of the slats, by turning your adjuster completely the opposite way.

Next up, we’ll look at deep cleaning your venetian blinds. This is particularly useful if your blinds are hung in the kitchen or bathroom as grease and water residue can build up on the metal slats, but we’ve got some tips to be rid of them with ease. Keep in mind, for this method you will have to remove your blinds.

1.      Put your blinds in the closed position and take them down from the window.

2.      Lay them on a clean pavement or driveway outside and spray with a multipurpose kitchen cleaner, or grease removing spray.

3.      Take a soft broom and sweep across the slats to remove any of the marks and repeat on the other side.

4.      Once brushed all over, spray with a hose to remove all suds and hang the blinds on your washing line to fully dry before re-fitting. It’s a little extra effort, for extra sparkle!

And last up, how to clean roller blinds. But before we get into it, a quick service announcement – roller blind material can be quite delicate, so always check the care instructions first, so you can avoid any potentially harmful products for your specific blinds.

Not all roller blind material is suitable for soap and suds, so we’ve provided tips for cleaning roller blinds - both washable and non-washable. With that out the way, let’s dive right in!

1.      Regularly keep the fabric dust free with your vacuum and trusty dusting brush fitted, and clean across each slat to remove any loose dust or dirt.

2.      Then take out your vacuum, fitted with either the brush or crevice tool, and gently glide it along the surface to clean your roller blinds of any dust and dirt.

3.      Finally, if you need to use stain treatment, make sure to be extra careful and always abide by care instructions on the bottle and on your blinds.

1.      Take your roller blind from the window and give it a preliminary vacuum once again.

2.      Then prepare a bathtub around half way with warm water and add 3 tbsp of dishwashing soap to the water (you could crumble in a tablet if that is all you have to hand).

3.      Stir well until suds appear and then add the blinds. Using a soft sponge, wipe across each slat on both sides. If there are any particularly tough stains, try using a toothbrush on the more troublesome areas.

4.      Then rinse off under the shower – be sure to thoroughly remove all soap residue as this will attract dust and dirt when re-hung. Hang out to dry and refit.

And that’s how to clean blinds easily! So, whichever blind style you have at home, include them in your cleaning routine with Gtech. Alternatively, head over to our blog for more household cleaning tips like how to get pesky red wine stains out of your carpet or ways to remove pet odour from your home.