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Katie See

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posted 1 year ago

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It is really hard to photograph smudges on the windows, but they were there! I just used a spray bottle of water and a dry window cloth, it seems to do the job pretty well.

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Dirty window #3 ( (definitely the dirtiest)

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Action shot of me cleaning the window with water

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posted 11 months ago

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Cleaned the windows today. Hopefully the pictures are good enough, I struggled taking them. I used water and norwex enviro and window cloth to clean them.

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Ash Jackson wrote:To complete this BB, the minimum requirements are that you must clean four windows, inside and out.

To document this BB, post pictures or a 2-minute video depicting the following:

Before: Four Dirty Windows
Action 1: Your glass cleaner, with a description
Action 2: You cleaning windows
After: Four Clean Windows!

I cleaned four windows, inside and out, using clean water, a cotton towel, a squeegee, and a microfiber cloth. My glass cleaner was warm water carried in a bucket.

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posted 5 months ago

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I used vinegar in a spray bottle to clean my windows. Spray it on, scrub it with a rag, and buff it dry with a towel. I added pictures of a fifth window because the first window is fogged inside and hard to tell if it’s clean.

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Cam Lee

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posted 3 months ago

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Cleaned windows! We have huge windows, so one of these could probably count as all four but I was cleaning them all anyway.

Cleaning solution was my usual 1:5 white vinegar to water. I hadn't used vinegar on glass before and I was pleasantly surprised how well it worked if you buff it dry!

I did a first pass with warm water in a mop bucket and a squeegee (not pictured) to get most of the grime off. The bucket had to refilled several times because it was so sludgy - lots of construction happening nearby. Then wiping off the trim/edges with cotton cloths and more warm water. Then a final wipe down and buffing with a microfiber cloth and vinegar solution to get the streaks off inside and out.

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posted 1 month ago

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For my glass cleaner, I mixed 1 cup of vinegar, 1 cup of isopropyl alcohol, some lemon essential oil, and whatever water I could fit to fill the bottle up to the top. I also made up a tub of soapy water using Oasis dish soap. To clean the windows, I sponged and squeegeed the outside and then used the glass cleaner spray with a rag to polish both the inside and outside and get rid of the streaks from the squeegee.

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Note: What’s the streak to the left of the ADT sticker on finished window #3.

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posted 1 month ago

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Good catch. The streak on window #3 is on the inside of the double-paned window. I scrubbed the window three more times inside and out to make sure but there is nothing I can do about those streaks. Here is a different window that doesn't have gunk inside.

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