Thank you YouTube - Thriving week 30

This house has 20 windows of various kinds (13 downstairs/7 upstairs), 14 window screens, 2 mini blinds (the rest are cellular shades or vertical blinds or nothing ) and 3 doors with glass. 

Most of the windows are dual pane vinyl ones and either single hung, fixed or sliders. We don’t know when they were installed and the company is no longer in the window business. We haven’t cleaned the outsides or screens since we bought the house in March 2023.

YouTube has been our school for learning how to care for them.

• How do you open a tilt in single hung window? 
• How do you get one back in place if it is off the track? 
• Is it ok for there to be some standing water in a weep hole? 
• The best way to wash the outside? 
• The best tool for doing that? 
• How do you get the screens out? 

YouTube has supplied all the answers except for how to improve sticky window tracks and we learned that at my former women’s club having the same problem.

I can now clean the single hung windows pretty well by getting the screens out, using a pole washer/squeegee tool and slightly soapy water to clean the outside of the windows, wash the screens, lubricate sticky window tracks with silicone spray applied with a rag after cleaning them well with soapy water, and operate the tilt open mechanism to clean the window edges. Then I can put it back together lol.

• DONE: 6 windows, 3 screens,  0 mini blinds & 2 doors
• REMAINING: 14 windows, 11 screens, 2 mini blinds & 1 door

Slow but steady progress.

Hopefully the full window cleaning process is not an annual task!!!