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  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    I cleaned quite a few windows yesterday. Just looked at the French windows with the sun on them. I can’t believe what a mess they look, I don’t know why I bothered.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    The dust hides the streaks, doesn't it?😒
    I've tried vinegar, WUliq, lemon juice, spray cleaners, microfibre cloths. Nothing works that I can tell.  The window cleaners use some hose effort to do outside. No streaks. Unfortunately not an option inside😒
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Ergates said:
    I cleaned quite a few windows yesterday. Just looked at the French windows with the sun on them. I can’t believe what a mess they look, I don’t know why I bothered.

    Just claim you are leaving it as added insulation for the winter months.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Like it! @KT53
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • I think most window cleaners use distilled water these days which doesn't leave streaks.

    My conservatory windows have pigeon strike marks on the inside because the stupid things persist in flying in through the patio doors and then panicking!
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    🙄
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited October 2022
    I use some cider vinegar and a drop of WUL in the water and a soft cloth to clean and then a squeedgee to wipe it all off.   It seems to work OK.

    I'll need to do a marathon window clean before next week as we have guests coming and we've had some streaky rain on the outside and a sparrow or two panicking inside the living room windows.  They come down the chimney - which supposedly has a bird thingy - and then fly out of the log burner and flap till they see we've opened the windows for them.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I use diluted white vinegar and use the free newspaper from Waitrose as the cleaning cloth. It doesn't have to be that newspaper but it's free and so full of pretentious bs that it's the only thing that it's good for.
    I just went on a website for children's chocolate to find something out. A pop-up popped up saying under 16s weren't allowed to browse and I had to enter the year I was born. I typed 1880 and it accepted it without question. :|  I'm not saying that 142-year-old people shouldn't eat a Kinder egg though.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I had similar the other day,  I told them I was 102. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I haven't looked at Facebook in years. It always seemed bit me like those awful boasting Christmas round robins. Anywayyyy , when I joined I gave my DoB as January in the year I joined. Consequently, adverts for nappies would appear in the most unexpected places.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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