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Drapes, Window Blinds & Curtain Maintenance

To maintain the appearance and useful life of your window treatments, it is important that your home maintenance program include the proper maintenance for your drapes, window blinds & curtains.

Drapes, window blinds & curtains can be shut during the day to help keep sunlight out to help keep exterior rooms cool, as well as to reduce the fading of furniture and carpets.  And they can be shut at night to help reduce heat loss from exterior rooms.

Shown below are the recommended routine maintenance tasks for your window treatments.  

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 Maintenance Task:  Inspect and clean drapes, window blinds and curtains

  
       
    How do you inspect and clean drapes, window blinds and curtains ?  

 

  

Drapes and curtains:

  • Clean drapes using a vacuum cleaner attachment.

  • Inspect to:

    • Ensure mounting hardware is tight.

    • Ensure pull cords operate correctly and do not hang low enough for small children to become tangled.

    • Check for insect nests, etc.

Venetian blinds:

  • Clean as follows:

    • Dip cloth in warm water with mild detergent, or you can also put a pair of socks on your hands that have been dipped in mild detergent.

    • Rub back and forth until the surfaces are clean.

    • Dry with a clean cloth.

    • Wipe blinds with a damp fabric softener sheet to eliminate static that can attract dust.

  • Inspect to:

    • Ensure mounting hardware is tight.

    • Ensure pull cords and rods operate correctly and do not hang low enough for small children to become tangled.

    • Check for insect nests, etc.

  
       
    Why is it important to inspect and clean drapes, window blinds and curtains?  

 

  

Periodic maintenance will extend the useful life of drapes and blinds.  It also helps you to detect and eliminate nests for household insects.

  
       
    How often should you inspect and clean drapes, window blinds and curtains?  
    Perform annually (March).  

 

  

 

    
    How does Home-Wizard rate the costs and benefits for this task?  
    The cost of this task can be relatively high, depending on the number of drapes and blinds that you have in your home.  
         
    The benefits of this task are moderate, and include maintaining the appearance and useful life of your drapes and blinds, and also helps reduce nesting places for insects and other household pests.  
       
    Overall Home-Wizard benefit-versus-cost rating (one 'hat' = low and four 'hats' = high):   

 

  

 

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