I hate cleaning wooden slatted blinds with a passion - any tips?

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on making cleaning them slightly less bothersome?

hoover attachment...small round brush type thing?

You can buy those brush tool things that have 4 arms on them so you can clean 4 slats at a time. I think they're by pledge or something, in the cleaning stuff aisle in the supermarket.

Or possibly from Kleeneze or Bettaware catalogues ?

wow, am looking at bettaware online, it's fab - they've got about 10 different types of duster! thanks.

What about these? blind kit . Join the MN Lakeland club, go on, you know you want to.

i'm obviously a complete slattern, i had no idea such things existed!

I have to admit that I have yet to clean the slatted blinds that came with our house (we moved in 2 years ago). They are small and in a room we use only for storage, but still, on a slattern scale I must be quite high up there. I did once tried to clean a large venetian blind in my student house and it was the most godawful mistake, I should have just left it stuck with years of student cooking grease on it.

lakelands marketing slogan should be. 'things you never knew you needed'

I just tilt my blind so all the slats face the front, then run over the whole lot with one of them magnetic duster thingys. Takes about a min to do whole blind.

If your slats are the narrow ones, your hoover brush attachement should do the job - close the blind so the slats are slanted downward towards the front. If they are the wider type, this will not work because the back part of the slat is hidden by the one above. I haven't found any quick way of cleaning this type - those tools with several arms I found didn't really remove the dust (maybe they would if you cleaned more regularly than me!) I just do eash slat separately using one of those hand-held California duster things (also available from Lakeland!) Or try to get the kids to do it....

I did the blinds in our house a while back. It was a complete sodding mare of a job. Took forever. I used babywipes. Loads of 'em.

Still got one of the Betterware venetian blind cleaners up for grabs for free to the first person who says 'me please'

I had a betterware type cleaner but i thought it was rubbish, i used baby wipes now and they can be done quite quickly doing that. She says knowing that it takes about 3o mins.

or you could get curtains?

haha! i take mine down and shower them in the bath