So, um, how often do most people clean their windows?

[conuly]

I have no idea what's normal here. Hourly? Biweekly? Yearly? Once a decade, whether you need to or not? Just whenever you can't stand the grime anymore?

Comments

[wpadmirer]

Clean windows? People still do that?

[archersangel]

i think most people do them yearly, during spring cleaning usually.

[conuly]

Insides and outsides both?

[conuly]

I just cleaned mine because they were gross and dirty.

[gatheringrivers]

It's whatever I can reach, and whenenever it's gross enough that it's actually bugging me.

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

I think that depends on if they are modern ones that tilt in or if they are old and on the second story. The harder the outside are to clean, the less likely they are to be cleaned.

Kitchen windows probably should be cleaned more often, saying that there is no hood.

[delphi]

I clean the edges of mine once a week because my place sprouts mould if you so much as look at it wrong. I clean the glass every couple of months or as needed (like if there's bird droppings). My apartment is floor-to-ceiling windows on one wall, so I spend a lot of time looking at them and notice when they're grimy.

[alexseanchai]

I get the impression that the only time this house's windows have been cleaned is the time I cleaned them; I've lived here a bit over a year and housemates rather longer

[ayebydan]

I think I have cleaned the set in my room once since they got fitted a decade ago....but then I live in Scotland. A lot of rain helps. Mum maybe cleans living room and her bedroom ones....Idk, twice a year? But my gran pays a window cleaner every two weeks. Dying art that.

[elayna]

Whenever the grime bugs me, so the front and the kitchen windows get washed more often than the rest. I’m not actually sure if I ever have washed the window in the guest bedroom.

[sabotabby]

You have to clean windows? Isnt' that what rain is for?

[isis]

We've had them cleaned twice since we moved here in April. (Had them cleaned, because they are too tall for us to reach with our ladders.)

I do clean the kitty-nose-prints off the inside low windows every month or so.

[movingfinger]

Once a year after pollen season, unless smoke season is bad and if that happens, then again sometime in late autumn. They got dirtier faster when I lived in the city, though.

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[cynthia1960]

We live in a condo building so they are responsible for the outsides. We are in a loft as well, so it complicates things. We probably ought to get kitty prints off the insides of the windows we can get to.

[dark_phoenix54]

Exteriors, pretty much never. Inside, at least twice a year- when I put in/take off the storm windows. Then whenever the grime gets built up too much- especially the kitty nose prints!

[low_delta]

When they get bad enough to annoy us, which is about once a year.

The insides hardly need cleaning, but we do them the same times as the outsides.

[wpadmirer]

Hmmm... we get lots of rain? (grin)

[conuly]

Clarification: They were gross and dirty on the inside. Hopefully it doesn't rain indoors where you are.

[conuly]

They get grimy on the inside too!

(And actually, the rain doesn't seem to wash the windows, it just makes the dirt slightly muddy.)

[hamimi_fk]

It's a part of spring cleaning for me. Inside and out, if you can.

Now that I think about it, I think we forgot to do it this year... Whoops.

[tielan]

Never? *coughs*

[kaffy_r]

I know I'm supposed to do our windows every spring. I usually wind up doing them every second summer. Sigh.

[wpadmirer]

No. Not on the inside. They get gross and dirty on the outside. Then it rains.

[conuly]

Kitties. Can't live without 'em.

[greghousesgf]

well, I can't clean the outsides of mine because I live in an apartment and I don't have a cherry picker.