The Best Window Cleaner ever. – She Wears Many Hats

Im happy to be sharing The Best Homemade Window Cleaner with you. It has won us over. After years of filmy residue, we can see clearly now. The film is gone.

For years and years, we battled trying to get the exterior of our windows clean. They just never looked crystal clear. A filmy residue and often chalky streaks would remain once the windows dried. We tried a variety of window cleaners from homemade to store bought concoctions, as well as using newspaper instead of paper towels with not much success.

That all changed when we learned about the best exterior window cleaner ever.

We had been working on updating a bathroom and ordered some new mirrors. While the glass guys were here installing the mirror, my husband, Randy, got to chatting with them, as he usually does, about how their business was going. During their conversation he happened to ask them what they use for cleaning glass. Did they have any professional tips or tricks? Yes, they did!

They shared a simple recipe for what they have found to work. They swore by it. We had already tried just using a simple combination of vinegar and water, but they learned a trick from a commercial window cleaner: add a little dish detergent to the vinegar/water mixture. Really? That simple? It was new to us, and it sounded much too easy.

So we tried it (or should I say Randy tried it) right away. Randy set out just to test a few windows and the next thing I knew he had worked all the way around the house, and was already working on some of the upstairs windows as well. There was an immediate difference, and so much easier than what we had tried in the past.

It was so bright inside we had to wear shades. I crack myself up.

The mixture below, is super simple and used with a soft bristle brush and hose. Thats it. No more piles of used paper towels, no ladders, just clarity. Im planning on trying the same mixture on all kinds of things outside that need de-grungifying.

Keeping the shades on. The future is definitely gonna be brighter around here, yall. Happy cleaning!

The proportions:

2 cups water1/4 cup white vinegar1/2 teaspoon dish detergent

What youll need:

a bucketscrub brush with optional, extension polewater hose with optional sprayer attachment

What Randy did:

For starters, he made a whole bucket of the solution.Using a soft bristle scrub brush on an extension pole handle thingy, dip the brush in a bucket of the solution, and scrub it on the window.Before it has a chance to dry, spray/rinse it off with clean water. Be sure to rinse thoroughly. A hose fitted with a sprayer attachment was helpful.

Notes:

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