Help!!!!!

flashy · 19-03-2007, 18:19

anyone know how i should clean vertical blinds???

i have six windows with them on (they're pink)

in a moment of madness today i decided i wanted to clean them, so i took the one down in my bedroom, this blind has 24 drops on it so i took them down individually and put them all in the washing machine...........

45 minutes later...........

the blinds are lovely and clean but have now frayed at the edges, ive put them back up in my bedroom wet, put all the weights back in them but they seem to of shrunk a little and dont seem as thick as they did.......but my room smells lovely thanx to the washing tablets i used

ok rant over...anyone any suggestions as to how it should REALLY be done?

mthead · 19-03-2007, 18:23

Shaz you daft sod did you not put them inside a pillow case first?Thats what we got told by the manufacturers when we got ours for the last house.

Lolly · 19-03-2007, 18:23

If its just dust, I'd get one of the Pledge Dusters. They come with a long handle for jobs like this. Otherwise, i'd have probably done the same as you and washed them.

flashy · 19-03-2007, 18:25

oh ******....lol....when i had them fitted they told me nowt, i remember the green one's you had at the other house..................i'll remember to put them in a pillow case when i do the next window..cheers eebo

flashy · 19-03-2007, 18:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lolly

If its just dust, I'd get one of the Pledge Dusters. They come with a long handle for jobs like this. Otherwise, i'd have probably done the same as you and washed them.

these are material blinds lolly, not metal ones love

Lolly · 19-03-2007, 18:30

I figured that with you putting them in the washing machine. lol. I meant i thought it just might have been a bit of surface dust.

flashy · 19-03-2007, 18:47

they're so dirty cos ive constantly got the windows open, and cos reece is a nosey ****** with dirty hands

katex · 19-03-2007, 19:10

Blooming hek Flashy ! What a shame .. don't know 'owt about this, but can't see that washing, even in a pillowcase, will help .. it's the water/temperature that will shrink them .. suspect should have been dry cleaned or summat.

Go into your local dry cleaners and have a word with them.

Hope they still look OK though, and tell that Reece not to be such of a 'blind twitcher' in future .. bless him

entwisi · 19-03-2007, 19:12

for a more delicate wash, shove them in the bath with some washing powder and give then a gentle swish. If they are white then adding a dolly blue to the rinsing water will give you lovely bright whites.

chav1 · 19-03-2007, 19:49

god help us when she tries to clean thoose metal blinds we will be able to hear the racket from her wshing machine trough out lancashire

cherokee · 19-03-2007, 20:17

Flashy i did all mine last year but i had to do them buy hand in warm soapy water then rinsed in warm clear water then drip dried em on the washing line , to me 4 days in all as i did a room a day..its hard work but it works good luck with the rest of em ..

cherokee · 19-03-2007, 20:18

Flashy i did all mine last year but i had to do them by hand in warm soapy water then rinsed in warm clear water then drip dried em on the washing line , to me 4 days in all as i did a room a day..its hard work but it works good luck with the rest of em ..

cherokee · 19-03-2007, 20:18

grrrrrrr sorry about the double post ...

jackyalex · 19-03-2007, 21:41

flashy i do mine in the washer all the time just on a 40 wash though,when you wash them in the washer on a 40 wash then let them dry on the line buy some starch spray or just iron them and when you come to put them up again ,you will notice that they all dont measure the same length well guess what they prob didnt before you put them in the wash ,try to rearange them when you put them back up,a little rearanging goes a long way

LancYorkYankee · 19-03-2007, 23:43

Take a guys advice, just turn em around!

Brian