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Cleaning mirrors and glass?

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  • 07-02-2019 8:40pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 4,812 ✭✭✭


    I don't know where the appropriate place to post this is...

    What is the best way to clean glass and mirrors inside a house?
    I use a squeegee and washer for windows and that's fine, but I feel like I'm missing a trick on the glass in my doors and kitchen units.
    Some of the panels contain stained glass or are frosted.
    Is there a special sort of cloth I should use to wipe glass and mirrors?


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,691 ✭✭✭4ensic15


    Addle wrote: »
    I don't know where the appropriate place to post this is...

    What is the best way to clean glass and mirrors inside a house?
    I use a squeegee and washer for windows and that's fine, but I feel like I'm missing a trick on the glass in my doors and kitchen units.
    Some of the panels contain stained glass or are frosted.
    Is there a special sort of cloth I should use to wipe glass and mirrors?

    Vinegar and newspaper is the way to do it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,812 ✭✭✭Addle


    But will that mark the frosted glass?
    And smell?
    I don't want my house smelling like a chipper!


  • Registered Users Posts: 958 ✭✭✭fatbhoy


    Windolene, of course. :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users Posts: 37,295 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Addle wrote: »
    I use a squeegee and washer for windows and that's fine, but I feel like I'm missing a trick on the glass in my doors and kitchen units.
    Some of the panels contain stained glass or are frosted.
    Is there a special sort of cloth I should use to wipe glass and mirrors?
    If this is for the inside of the oven; baking soda and then vinegar does a good job on baked in stains.


  • Site Banned Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Dakotabigone


    Mirrors generally don’t get dirty unless you have bodily fluids being flung, fired or discharged at them.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    Damp short hair/pile microfiber cloth, followed by drying with a dry short hair/pile microfiber cloth. There's no better outcome. Forget all the rest, they are rubbish.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,079 ✭✭✭dancingqueen


    Vinegar doesn't leave a smell - you can get a white vinegar spray by Stardrops in EuroGiant or Mr Price for 1.50 and it's brilliant. I have also gotten window/mirror wipes cheaply in these kinds of shops for day to day wiping. You can often get particles of toothpaste on mirrors and indeed condensation. I second the microfibre cloth - I don't buy newspaper but my mother always used it when I was growing up and it is also very good.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,812 ✭✭✭Addle


    My bathroom mirror gets grubby.
    Mirror over fireplace gets v dusty.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,079 ✭✭✭dancingqueen


    Addle wrote: »
    My bathroom mirror gets grubby.
    Mirror over fireplace gets v dusty.

    Quick spritz of vinegar spray and a microfibre cloth would work on both


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 38,571 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    Try truwash.

    Been using it for the last month in the house and in the car. Brilliant.

    https://www.martinservices.ie/truwash2.html


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  • Registered Users Posts: 561 ✭✭✭HiGlo


    Damp short hair/pile microfiber cloth, followed by drying with a dry short hair/pile microfiber cloth. There's no better outcome. Forget all the rest, they are rubbish.

    This is pretty much what I do...... Use a damp facecloth to wipe down mirrors and then dry with a hand towel. No smears, marks, anything.... Just perfect, clean mirrors.


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