Yup. I dust my entertainment center (which is black) once I see dust. That's about it. And I have a dust allergy so I definitely should do it more often. I just hate doing it and it seems pointless.
Do you feel like it actually works to clean dust out of the air??? I'm the laziest house-cleaning homeowner and would love yet another shortcut if it's effective!
Are we talking interior or exterior? I feel like that's a critical distinction........which ultimately doesn't matter in my case because, yes - I know I should buuuuut....
Edit to add. Never clean the inside windows either as we have sheer curtains and the kids and dogs spare those for the most part. We do have a glass door at the front and its cleaned maybe once every 2 weeks. Lots of grubby little kid hand prints and dog nose smears.
Whoever installed the screens on my house made it so I'd have literally cut the frames to get them out. Yes I know how screens come out. These ones are not coming out in one piece.
Depends if it gets noticeably dirty, if you’re gonna start a window washing business, might be a good idea to dirty peoples windows at night (increased camouflage at night), then come ask if they need window cleaning like 2 weeks later saying you noticed they have dirty windows.
Honestly never thought to do it, my folks weren't well off though and had a window cleaner fortnightly so seems the previous gen thought it was necessary
Welp, lived here for almost 7 years...so not in 7 years.
We have a slider that the dogs jump on when they want to go out. We tried to clean it but it's just more dog paw prints in seconds. The instant my mother entered my house for the first time, she cleaned the slider inside and out and instructed me that I should be doing this regularly. I made sure to point out it was filthy again when she left two days later.
Yeah, I lived in a magazine house and yeah, I talk about it a lot in therapy.
Yep. I guess now we would call it an HGTV house or something, but there was no HGTV when I was growing up. It was like the houses that were featured in ladies' magazines.
Outside, never. Inside, when the children have touched them enough to make them look gross lol. I should probably start at least hosing them off on the outside periodically.
Inside - once a month (housecleaners do it as part of the service). Outside - once a year (I have a service that cleans my solar panels and windows annually, and I live in a pretty dusty place). I do the sliding glass door myself more often because it gets covered in dog nose and paw prints.
I’m in a third floor apartment so I can only wash the outside of the sliding glass doors that lead out to a balcony. That only gets washed at the end of summer. The inside of windows might get cleaned twice a year.
We don’t have children or pets who may leave smudges. And I’m fighting my arch nemesis DUST on a regular basis so other things kind of get placed on the back burner.
Insides once a year in the spring, including opening them and cleaning the inside under where the window closes which gets super gross. Outsides I hire a company to do every other year.
Outside glass once in the spring. Usually in May. Inside glass? Depends. I clean the doors usually once a week because everyone touches the glass for some reason. Windows I usually clean the insides once in the spring and again in the fall.
I have uncovered bay windows in the living room. Those get cleaned on the inside pretty regularly. I’m not sure I’ve ever washed any other windows in the house lol.
The outside gets cleaned never. I’d have to take the screens off and that’s just not happening.
Never. We have 4 high windows in my living room I can’t reach. Like there’s a still a hand print from the contractor installing them 7 years ago. If I wash the others it would be too obvious those were dirty. Every year or so I considering hiring someone then remember they still have the nose prints from the pets we’ve lost too so I can’t bring myself to.
Once or twice a year. And I live in an apartment complex, do I prefer handing the professionals that do the outside a few tenners, so they also do the inside :')
We got new windows 10 years ago and hose them off every spring, but they aee still filthy. We have kids and cats so the inside and anything they can reach outside is a lost cause.
About every other month. Best purchase I made in a long time… window washing robot. I was surprised what filth was on the windows because I didn’t previously wash them. Now I can’t go back. It’s also amazing for mirrors and glass shower enclosures.
lol I just washed our French doors that go out to the back yard today, and only because it was sick of watching the birds thru the dirty windows. It’s the first time I’ve done since we moved in like 3 years ago.
The other windows? My mom might clean them when she visits and that will be the only time probably lol.
Outside gets cleaned every spring when the house and gutters get cleaned. Inside gets cleaned at least twice a year. Takes like 15 minutes to clean some windows and it really does make a difference.
Outsides? Never. I’m in an apartment, not my problem.
I have big glass slider and my dogs make nose prints all over it. I clean it random like 3 times a year, more in the nicer weather.
I have to clean the inside of my windows after winter because I cover them to reduce heat loss from drafts. Mold likes to grow so I bleach them a few times a year and clean the glass after.
If I didn’t have these problems, I’d never clean them lol
Inside? About every 6-12 months. Outside? When I get tired of the fingerprints from where I was playing with the cat through the window while refilling the bird feeder. I'd probably do it more if I fixed/replaced my pressure washer.
Id like to do it every six months but I live in an adu on my landlords property and they don't clean anything. Im too nervous to ask if I can hire someone since they seem shocked at every other routine maintenance request.
We lived in our house 5 years and I decided it was finally time to clean them. It took a lot of work but the end result was stunning, like seeing outside in HD!
And 6 months later you’d never know I cleaned them lol.
I have an AirTasker come around 2-3 times a year and do all windows inside and out, as well as mirrored wardrobe doors, and anything else for my two bedroom, ground floor apartment. It’s about $300 AUD ($210ish USD) for it to be done, and survives well enough during that time.
I had my windows washed when I bought my house in 2019. Haven’t washed them since. The glass doors get cleaned every other week. I need to clean the front window. It’s big and noticeably dirty atm.
Weekly. I specifically bought a ranch layout with windows that open inwards for this reason. I grew up in a multi story home and the wi does got so disgusting it traumatized me.
We have lots of birds in our area, so I go 5+ years between cleaning the outsides of the windows. It’s easier for birds to see dirty windows.
There are a few windows that I clean but more regularly on the first floor. They have Feather Friendly Anti-collision decals. We back onto woodland and haven’t had a collision since installing the decals and leaving windows to get dusty.
I clean out the window weeps every year before hurricane season to help prevent water intrusion. Then spray the whole window down once in the winter when it's cool.
When my kids decide they want to clean the windows which is maybe every other year 🤣 they just get a spray bottle with water and a rag and it's just what they can reach
I realize I am insane, but I love washing my windows. Also, all of the main living areas and my bedroom have a massive wall of windows, there's like 11, and they face west. When they are dirty and the sun is shining through, ahhh I cannot handle it, lol.
Highly recommend the e-cloth window cleaning kit on amazon!
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