Best way to wash windows?

[whethergirl]

My windows really need a clean!

What's the best and easiest way to clean them? I'm not ultra fussy, I just want them clean and don't want to spend too long doing them.

I find the quickest way is with glass cleaner and a lint free cloth, microfibre ones are best, if not then kitchen towel if you have more time then a bucket with a little squeeze of washing up liquid and some vinegar, two cloths one for wet and one for drying hth .

Micro fibre clothes! E-cloth do a window-cleaning kit, with a cloth for washing that you use wet and a cloth for drying that you use dry (obviously). Gets the windows really clean and no smears. I don't do it very often i hasten to add, but i'm hot on the theory .

Not clothes, cloths. Idiot.

Oh and dont bother with e cloths they are good but expensive, you can get microfibre ones anywhere now.

Oops x post lol

Great minds think alike. Apart from when talking about e-cloths...

Glass cleaner and old newspapers is what I use. Works a treat.

No I totally agree they are great but when in a hurry I grab the first cloth that comes to hand!! X

As I haven't cleaned them in a while I'm thinking that I might need to use water, not just a window cleaner - especially for the outside.

Outside, use a warm soapy cloth (drop of fairy in the water) and a sweegie. Buff streaks and drips with dry microfiber.

Inside, I struggled with microfiber and blue spray because of lint and streaks. So, I just bought a Karcher window vac. I can use the warm soapy water and buff the little bits that need it and it's very fast. Fun, too!

Thanks for all your advice, think I will go for squirt of washing up liquid & vinegar for outside, and window cleaner inside.

Wow, that Karcher window vac is pricey, I don't care about my windows that much!

Although according to my mum, your windows are what people use to judge how clean you are inside the house

Yeah, the Karcher isn't worth the money unless you're a cleaner.

I have discovered rubbing alcohol. I mix it with equal parts of water in a sprayer. Absolutely no streaks and my windows have never looked so clean! Cheap too!

I'm going to do mine this weekend, I cannot see through them, my house inside is cleanish.

I will wash with soapy water then dry off with special glass cloths I've just spent £2 on.

It was the front step which indicated how clean your house was, int olden days.

My front step is even worse!!

Get an ettore kit (off eBay-£20 odd for a mop & squeegee). This is what the pro's use & it's super quick. Little warm water, washing up liquid & vinegar-frothy all over window & squeegee off.

Life changing stuff!

Isn't the vinegar, newspaper method just and old wives tale as these were the only resource they had available and cheap?

scrazy it's not a myth. Works well but I've abandoned that way as my arms were falling off me from the rubbing. Wet paper to wash the windows and dry paper to dry the windows. My dad taught me to do it that way.

Now it's window cleaner and a cloth. Much easier and faster until I learn an easier way. I like the thoughts of the squeegee.

I like the sound of the ettore kit evelynj, thanks for that.

I always use vinegar to clean my mirrors, it does work. But it is a bit stinky!

used to use newspaper and window cleaner spray , always worked but my God it it was hard work. Just last week I used 2 cheap microfibre cloths (from Aldi) dampened one a little and washed the window and used the dry one to buff, very easy and Im 38 weeks pregnant!