When was the last time you cleaned your window treatments? From what we’ve seen at @GoCleanCo, we’re guessing YEARS. They are often neglected and LOVE to collect dust (or even grease if they’re in the kitchen).
While some window treatments are a much bigger pain to clean than others, we’re gonna show you how to clean all of them! Buckle in for the cleaning guide you never knew you needed!
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Venetian Blinds (Horizontal Slatted Blinds)
These are the most common blinds we come across, and they also get the dirtiest. Dust loves to settle on slatted blinds, making them filthy. These blinds come in a variety of materials like real wood, faux wood, or aluminum – and this method will work for all types.
Start by grabbing a vacuum with a horsehair attachment. We love using the Bissell® Zing (Canada) (USA) which fits the Powerextra® horsehair brush (Canada) (USA). Like everything we do, start top to bottom, left to right. Turn on your vacuum and glide your brush across the top slat. Work your way down and suck up all of the dust. This is a great method on its own if your blinds aren’t too dirty. You can also opt for a Swiffer® duster in a pinch.
After you’ve sucked up all the dust, check to see if you can remove them. Be careful removing them, blinds are delicate. If you can, remove them and fill your tub with hot water and powdered Tide® (¼ cup). Let them soak in the tub and scrub if needed. Take them out and dry them with a microfibre cloth.
If you can’t remove yours, get a batch of our hot water (1 gallon) and powdered Tide® (1 tsp) recipe ready. Grab a microfibre cloth and dunk it into the water and tide mixture. Wring it out and start at the top slat. Wipe all the way across the slat, making sure to get all of the dirt. Don’t forget to wipe the bottom side of each slat, and change your water and Tide® mixture if it’s dirty. Keep on re-wetting your cloth as you go and make your way down the blinds.
Tip: If your blinds are greasy (kitchen ones often are), place them in the sink or tub in hot water with a dishwasher tab or two to cut the grease. If you can’t remove yours, spray straight Mr. Clean® onto a microfibre cloth and wipe across each slat. Make sure to wipe them off with just water after as Mr. Clean® can streak.
This task is super time-consuming, but once you have them sparkling clean, it’s easy peasy to keep up on them with your vacuum or Swiffer®.
Vertical Blinds
Vertical blinds are very similar to Venetian blinds – they’re just vertical! So you can use the exact same method to clean them. Just move left to right, starting at the top of each vane and wiping down.
If your vertical blinds are fabric, you can vacuum them first, then spot clean them with Tide® and hot water. Just make a batch of our TB&W recipe, but skip the bleach. Grab a gentle scrub brush, dip it into the mixture, then lightly scrub the stained spot. Make sure to test a spot first as Tide® can leave watermarks.
Roller Blinds/Pleated Blinds/Roman Blinds
These are all fabric blinds, and they are much easier to keep clean because they don’t collect dust the way slats do. A vacuum with a horsehair attachment is all you need. Sadly, you can’t wash most blinds, so a vacuum will have to do. If you have any stained spots, you can use the same spot cleaning method we mentioned for vertical blinds. Another quick way to clean them is using a lint roller/brush to remove any stuck-on lint.
Honeycomb Blinds
Sadly, you can’t really wash these ones either. But you can still clean them. Start by vacuuming them with your horsehair brush. After you’ve sucked up all the dust you can, grab a can of compressed air (like you would use for a keyboard) and blow out any trapped dust.
Curtains
We get lots of questions on how to wash curtains. But it’s actually really simple, y’all. Just throw them in the wash!
Always check the manufacturer’s instructions, and if your curtains are very delicate or expensive, you may want to take them to get dry cleaned to be safe. Wash them with powdered Tide® and OxiClean® on delicate to get out any stains. Throw them in the dryer on tumble dry and hang them back up while they’re still slightly damp.
Tip: If your curtains are wrinkled, get a spray bottle full of water. Spray them down liberally and the wrinkles will smooth themselves out with the weight of the fabric!
Don’t forget to clean your windows and tracks while you’re at it! Click here to read our windows article. Window treatments are a time consuming job, folks (as well as one of our team’s least favorite things to do). Be easy on yourself if you don’t get all of the window treatments in your house done in one day. Once you get through that long sitting dirt, though, it’s a breeze keeping up with them!
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gocleanco
Sep 22
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Sep 19
We kicked off the Fall Cleaning Challenge by flying to Burnaby, British Columbia and cleaning our Spring Cleaning Challenge (2023) winners house! We had so much fun doing this clean. Lots of team work, planning and love was poured into this project! Getting cheered on by you folks makes it all worth it! Being able to pay our good fortune forward to our followers makes us all warm and fuzzy. Big thanks to our brand partners who generously hooked us up with so much gifted stuff for the winner. We all need to go nap for 3 days now 😂 Did you enter the Fall Cleaning Challenge so that this can be you Spring 2024?! Link in our bio or head to our website to enter. #cleaning Special thanks to @ruggable @bollandbranch @oceansalesltd @proctergamble @amazoninfluencerprogram 💕
gocleanco
Sep 15
Want to open your front door and see our smiling faces coming to clean your house? Then you better get over to bleachpraylove.com on Monday, September 18th and join the Fall Cleaning Challenge! That’s right, the Grand Prize is a house clean by yours truly and my crew. We fly to you and give your house a top to bottom clean like only we can. How does the Fall Cleaning Challenge work? Each week for four weeks follow along and clean your house with me! Plus we have soooo cool many prizes! Each week we will be giving away some of my favorite things like @bollandbranch @ruggable @sharkbeauty blow dryers, and my personal fav cold hard 💰 to help you catch up on bills, buy a new vacuum or hire someone to help you with your looming House Work if you can’t get caught up! If you want to see more of our adventure at the Spring Cleaning Challenge winners house stay tuned in stories for the next few days PLUS we are filming it all for YouTube and you can watch it all the behind the scenes dirty laundry…The good, the bad…the filthy. Love you folks. For reals. 💕 Thank you for making our job so fun! #cleaningmotivation
gocleanco
Aug 25
No visit from @hellohairhouse is complete without a kitchen haircut! #fallhairtrends
gocleanco
Aug 24
The Fall Cleaning Challenge starts on Monday Sept 18th, 2023. Y’all ready? The download will be available on September 18th and the grand prize is a house clean by yours truly! We also have some new vacuum testing coming your way 😈 My garage is FULL of suckers baby and I’m not mad about it. #fallcleaning
gocleanco
Aug 19
Update: It’s a damn ice box in here and I’ve been sleeping like a baby. #airconditioning
gocleanco
Aug 8
Perfect example that cleaning 👏🏻 is 👏🏻 home 👏🏻 maintenance 👏🏻 Take care of your stuff and it will last longer. This little handy-dandy-doo-dad scrubber is linked in my Amazon Storefront. #cleaningtips
gocleanco
Aug 3
Had fun in the angels’ city chasing fortune and fame 😎 Thanks @amazoninfluencerprogram for #hosting me. And no I didn’t get tickets to any shows this weekend but for the rest of you—take the moment and taste it. 🫶🏼
gocleanco
Jul 19
To the Salon!!!!!! (Or in this case, the laundry room.) Saved these fabulous scuffed up pumps with some @tidelaundrystainremover a cloth and some patience. Just in time for @barbiethemovie premiere! Have fun @lauren_lally always happy to be of service 🫡 #barbiethemovie
gocleanco
Jul 12
Bathroom organization top picks! Everything is in my storefront to 🛍️ #amazonfinds
gocleanco
Jul 11
Summer is here! Clean up your space so you actually want to hangout in it. That hot tub…it’s not mine…k🤦🏼♀️ Link in bio for these products, some are on sale for Prime Day, just check the albums for your country.
gocleanco
Jul 11
Robot Vacuum Fight Club! 💪🏻 Things we threw on the floor: Shreddies, Powdered Tide, (clean) Cat Litter, A crumbled up loaf of sourdough and good old dirt! Stay tuned for the results. 🧐 #thiswasmorefunthaniexpected
gocleanco
Jul 8
Spent my morning making a very aesthetically pleasing Raspberry Pie Reel for y’all but it ended up being a Raspberry Scramble 🥴💀 Wasn’t gonna post it BUT when life feels like a scramble it can still be delicious. 🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼 Please consider this my official petition to bring @jello back as a dessert staple.
gocleanco
Jul 7
Shower tracked destroyed with built up hard water minerals? Here’s an easy solution with a simple house hold ingredient and elbow grease. Still gonna take some scrubbing friends, good results take work. #cleaningtips
gocleanco
Jul 6
Is pressure washing considered a form of therapy? Asking for a friend. #backupvocalsduuuuuuuuupe
gocleanco
Jun 29
Years in the making…it’s FINALLY here…and it’s a masterpiece. Over the years I have received thousands of DM’s asking what to pick when renovating your home. What is the easiest to clean? What will survive the test of time? So I compiled it all here in our Home Renovation Guide. Apologies for taking so long but we kept adding and it kept getting longer and longer. This has been a labour of love. Link in bio to purchase or tap to shop! #itsbeenalongtimecoming
gocleanco
Jun 21
Sounds like a lot of you have slime problems. Here’s how we got it out! Sprinkle baking soda on the slime and smush it down into the carpet fibres so it gets in deep. Add straight vinegar and let it sit for about 30 mins. Scrub it with a brush. Repeat until it’s gone! When you repeat, you need to let it sit each time for 30 mins so it starts to break down the slime. We scrubbed for 30 mins too, don’t give up! Think about how expensive the damn carpet is to replace and that will give you lots of energy! As always: It is a good idea to test an inconspicuous spot first (like in a closet) before try you so this because all carpets are different. Try at your own risk but also if you have dried slime all over your carpet I think you are screwed anyways. GOOD LUCK and report back. #slime #slimetoturial
gocleanco
Jun 18
I’m a simple creature. Here’s the haul I promised from the viral sweater set. Yellow usually isn’t my colour but I’m feeling it the most! Wearing a medium, it’s machine washable but I have been laying it flat to dry. Everything is linked in my bio and up in my stories. #amazonfinds
gocleanco
Jun 17
If you thought I was going to miss an opportunity to use this bop, you were wrong. Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads out there, reminder that a clean tractor is a sexy tractor. @kubotacanada if you wanna detail this thing next year LMK. 🚜 🧽 🫧😎
gocleanco
Jun 16
5 days left to get in that spring clean!! 😂💪🏻 Here’s a round up of all the stuff we’ve cleaned with @mrclean if you need some inspiration! It’s been quite the journey 😵💫🤢What else do y’all use @mrclean for? #mrcleanpartner #sponsored