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NOVATO — If you want to maintain your windows in between professional cleanings, you’ll need to have the right cleaning tools and techniques at your disposal. Start with the tools: Go to your local hardware store and pick up a strip washer (sort of like a mop that’s used on windows) and a squeegee. Once you have your tools, follow this technique:
1. Use your strip washer to wet and scrub the window. If you have baked-on dirt, you can use some #4 steel wool (the finest grade available) to get more abrasive power.
2. Starting at the top of the window, use your squeegee to “fan” the window by moving briskly from one side to the other in a downward direction. This will displace moisture and allow the window to dry without leaving fibers or smudges. As an alternative to fanning, you can also do a straight pull: Starting at the top, pull your squeegee straight across the window, then down to the bottom. Use a towel to wipe the moisture off your squeegee, then repeat this across-and-down motion until you’ve covered the entire window.
3. Towel the edges of the window frame and sill. While your squeegee will catch most of the moisture, there’s likely to be some remaining in the frame’s edges and corners. You can collect this residual moisture by going along the frame and sill with a towel.

How to Clean a Window

Get expert tips on the best methods and tools for cleaning windows, ensuring they stay spotless and streak-free.

How to Clean a Window by Eric Kennedy

by Eric Kennedy, a Diamond Certified Expert Contributor

Video: How To Clean a Window


if you want to maintain your windows
between professional cleanings you'll
want to make sure that you know the
proper technique
today we're Novato with diamond
certified expert contributor Erik
Kennedy of art window cleaning to learn
more all right I'm here to show
everybody how to clean window
professionally a lot of people have a
long time between you know professional
cleanings and they want to clean the
kitchen window or the living room or
whatever it is so I'm here to show you
the right way to do it so I'm just going
to get started this is called the strip
washer you can buy these tools at
janitorial supply or any hardware store
carries them this is just like a mop we
go ahead and we wet the window and give
it a good scrub some windows generally
are dirtier than this we keep them
pretty clean this is not going to take
me much to really scrub it but if you
got baked on dirt we take steel wool for
Faurot steel wool and it's the finest
grade we take that and we scrub it if
you have baked on dirt food anything
like that that will take that off so the
next thing we have is our squeegee this
is obviously squeegee so I'm going to do
it the professional way this is called
sanding
so that's pretty easy for me to just go
through and fan it like that I'm going
to do it one more time and show people
how they can do it without Fanning it's
a little bit easier so we just call this
a straight pull so basically you don't
want a lot of water on the edge you want
to tile up the edge a little bit and
have your squeegee real dry and just
pull it straight across and down the
same thing dry it dry your squeegee you
pull it straight across and down you
keep going that and we're going to drive
the edge when a dryer squeegee I'm going
to straight pull it and then for the
last one since this is box Gant what you
can do is just same process pull it
across but leave a line in the middle
right so all we do is take our dry towel
clean dry towel and wipe that and it
won't leave a mark the other thing that
if you get sloppy some windows a little
more difficult you leave a lot of water
on the edge you can take the towel clean
dry towel bite the edge both sides and
we can even wipe the top so it doesn't
drip down with any water at the top
we just call up or silk

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Video: The Best Time to Clean Your Windows


hi
people often ask what's the best time to
clean your windows
the busiest month of the year is june so
just know if you're going to book in
june
that's where the people that only want
to get their windows cleaned once a year
that's when they'll schedule and it's
usually a long wait to get an
appointment in june so
plan accordingly i recommend people
look at the environment that they have
to determine if they're going to need
window cleaning earlier or later in the
season
people that have a lot of vegetation
flowering plants
and so forth will be better served to
have
windows cleaned in july or august
after the pollen has bloomed and after
the bees have
have moved on people that live by the
water
need more service you get salt air on
the wall in on the windows and then
you're
going to want to have that done as often
as every three months
just on the exterior and the average
window cleaning is done
twice a year for maintenance once inside
and out and once on the exterior
so i hope that's helpful for you

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