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For indoor cleaning of mirrors and such, I typically use a barely damp microfiber cloth. For windows in bright areas that tend to show streaks, I use Invisible Glass.
E-cloth for glass. No soap, no nothing but water and the cloth. You might have to do it twice if it's a really dirty window. But I do my mirrors and windows (inside) and it's great. Some of their products are not so hot, but the ones that work, they really work. I haven't paid for soap for floors or windows in like 2 decades.
I do remember years ago doing the newspaper with I think ammonia and water but since I found Sprayway ( not sure where I heard of it) that's what I use. I find it readily available now, HD, Target, Walmart, local supermarket. Good stuff!!
Yeah, the key is to recognize it is a DEEP clean, and not a regular clean. Once the glass is in shape, other techniques, such as simple water and a squeegee can keep it like that for quite a while. I guess it is similar to vacuuming a rug but only using a steam clean extraction on it when vacuuming isn't cutting it.
- and most glass would get nowhere near as dirty as my patio doors. The joys of country living.
For 15 years, I cleaned all the interior windows, including glass refrigerator doors and hood glass, in microbiology buildings (RML) every six months. The buildings were very old and therein unsealed, with open windows with not well fitted screens (some open with no screens at all).
The buildings were constantly infested with flies, beetles, hornets, etc. The labs couldn't use chemicals to clear the bugs out because the chemicals would disrupt their biology experiments, especially with their ticks. (mostly Lyme disease ticks). The flies were stuck on the glass in their small dried pools of mucky bacterial goo that invaded the flies and took over all the organs of the fly in a sequence whereby then were ejected from the body all at once, killing the fly instantly, leaving them in their last statued stance (all slightly different stances). This fly problem never showed up on the outside of the buildings, which I cleaned twice a year with a Tucker Pole (after removing all the screens and then having to put them all back up).
I gotta tell ya, I used strong ammonia solutions along with used green scouring pads before squeegeeing them off - and then going over them again with water to dilute the residues and then re-squeegeeing them (on the inside windows). There was a lot of insect fecal on the inside windows other than just the the flies' bacteria ejections.
For 15 years, I cleaned all the interior windows, including glass refrigerator doors and hood glass, in microbiology buildings (RML) every six months. The buildings were very old and therein unsealed, with open windows with not well fitted screens (some open with no screens at all).
The buildings were constantly infested with flies, beetles, hornets, etc. The labs couldn't use chemicals to clear the bugs out because the chemicals would disrupt their biology experiments, especially with their ticks. (mostly Lyme disease ticks). The flies were stuck on the glass in their small dried pools of mucky bacterial goo that invaded the flies and took over all the organs of the fly in a sequence whereby then were ejected from the body all at once, killing the fly instantly, leaving them in their last statued stance (all slightly different stances). This fly problem never showed up on the outside of the buildings, which I cleaned twice a year with a Tucker Pole (after removing all the screens and then having to put them all back up).
I gotta tell ya, I used strong ammonia solutions along with used green scouring pads before squeegeeing them off - and then going over them again with water to dilute the residues and then re-squeegeeing them (on the inside windows). There was a lot of insect fecal on the inside windows other than just the the flies' bacteria ejections.
I have a pretty good understanding of what you went through for those 15 years. As a kid, I was tasked with cleaning the interior lighting in a radio station set of studios, as part of renovations. There were two announcers who had been there forever and were chain smokers, the boss always had a cigar, and the lights hadn't been touched for years. There were fly carcasses and nicotine stains that colored the white of the fixtures to a deep brownish yellow.
It took buckets of sudsing ammonia and S pic & Span to get them back to some semblance of clean.
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