What is the best way to clean mini blinds? Do you hire a service? How often do you clean them?

Question

I have several large (new) miniblinds and am wondering what the best way to go about cleaning and caring for them is once they get dusty.

Many Thanks for all of the awesome answers. I found many that will work so I cant pick the best answer. I have taken mini blinds outside to hose off and that does work. Guess there is no magical ez way...

Answer 1

Sigh ... I don't think there is an easy way and we have several of them. And as with many things in life, prevention is better than cure!

Here is what I have discovered from having mini-blinds over the years.

1. Vacuum and wipe them frequently.

2. Try the special tool they sell at Walmart and other stores and spray it with something like Pledge and clean them regularly.

3. Put on a pair of cotton gloves so your fingers can work like a cloth, and use a mild cleaning solution.

4. Buy cheap mini-blinds so you won't mind replacing them more often.

5. For a big job put them in a bathtub with mild dish detergent and rinse them well. Make sure you wash both sides of the blinds. The cotton gloves work well in this situation too.

These sites have lots of suggestions. I hope this helps. Best of luck with it.

Answer 2

You may think this too much trouble, but it is actually faster than trying to wipe them down inside, I take mine down hang them up on the fence or clothesline and spray them down with the garden hose. I use the power wash setting! After they are wet I take a big brush with soft bristles and scrub them and then re-spray with hose, then let dry in the sun. I do both sides and truly, I think it is the best way to get them completely clean especially if they have a greasy residue on them.

Answer 3

I take mine outside and put them in my cement driveway and get a bucket of car wash soap with a brush with extension on it and start brushing each side and then rinse real well and hang them up.( I have a small clothesline and I hang them there one at a time. In between cleaning I take a bounce sheet {the ones for the dryer) and wipe down the slats in my blinds and this eliminates alot of the dust on them because the bounce has some kind of static removal....A gal told me this cleaned houses in Palm Springs for the rich...I got alot of household hints from her..

Answer 4

Lay them out on your picnic table or deck. Spray with a cleaner like Formula 409 or Mr. Clean & let stand a few minutes. Then rinse with the most powerful jet setting of your hose. Dry in sunshine.

Answer 5

Take them down and wash them in the bathtub in a solution of top job and water, a floor cleaner works
it degreases whats on the blinds. If fabric take down
and vaccum them off and spray with FreBreeze...

Answer 6

A dust-brush attachment on a vacuum is good. Or sometimes a damp cloth. If they really start to get grungy, throw them in a bathtub with lysol or maybe bleach, go over them with a rag and brush, then let them drain and dry before you hang them back up.

Good luck!

Answer 7

I clean mine in the bathtub with bleach (only if they are all white, of course) or laundry detergent. To keep the dust off of them, I dust them with a Swiffer Duster every 2 weeks. Good luck :)

Answer 8

i dont clean im to busy doin this but of you must there is a brush thats made for just such a job, plus theres all ways the garden hose

Answer 9

I hate to admit this, but after trying to wash mine, I went out and bought new ones. They were only $4.50 and it beat spending 2 hours trying to clean the old ones. I hate the waste factor in that, though.

Answer 10

I use one of the small brush attachments on my vacuum to keep them dust free.

In the kitchen, I follow by wiping each slat with a paper towel sprayed with windex.

If you clean them once a month, you will not have any issues.