What products are best for making house windows gleam ?

Use a bucket of hot water with a touch of washing up liquid, using a clean old cloth wash windows, use a Karcher window cleaner to take it off. Amazing. Karcher is the only investment about £18-25 but cloths I use are old t shirts being recycled, and we all have washing up lqd and water

Ps by silver I mean they' contain silver as an aid to cleaning ,( not duraglit?)

Well! For absolute years I've used a silver cleaning cloth by minky I got at Morrisons ! Smear free no product .just spray windows with water then clean off with these cloths . honestly they're like magic cloths!!!

I use a product called Nilglass and a window vac I got from Kleeneze. They do the trick. Spray on, vac off.

Another vote for hg and those cloths that look.like fish scales.

ajswan I bet you're mad at DH for washing widows in soap and water.

That typo really made me laugh.

I’d recommend a Kartcher window vac . We have large windows and my daughter uses one to bring up the windows sparkling clean in no time at all .

I do use the old newspaper trick .
Not vinegar though .
Hot water and washing up liquid followed by dry and polish with newspaper.
Done this for years. It beats anything else I have ever tried.
Give it a go !

My Window Cleaner does outside windows & I do inside. My Pop always used warm water & newspaper & dried with newspaper. I substituted kitchen roll for newspaper when we stopped buying newspapers. Proved just as good.

Water as hot as you can bare it. A tiny squeeze of washing up liquid if they are really dirty. Polish off with another microfiber cloth soaked in v hot water and squeezed almost dry.

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Many of us get our newspaper digitally now, don't think my ipad is going to help with the windows!

ECloth for me they are like magic.

I’m so glad it’s not just me who gets rubbery streaks with a window vac.

For a previous house with a large kitchen roof-light we bought a brush on a pole like the professionals use, it worked well as there was soft water.

We still have soft water now, him indoors didn’t exactly clean the windows, more he smeared the grime all over and left dirt streaking down - he meant well.

For outside - a bucket of warm soapy water with a glug ofwhite vinegar, a car sponge and a good quality squeegee followed by a polish with paper. O and a lot of elbow grease.

Inside same formula of water, soap, and vinegar in a spray, wipe off and polish with a microfibre cloth (the one for glass).

Phew! Now I’ve done them inside and out I’m done for…

Time for a small (medicinal) tincture I think.

A good old fashioned REAL Chamois leather that has soaked in vinegar and warm water and after wringing it out well it did everything in the house including the furniture. NO streaks and kept the dust off the furniture longer. Nothing needs going over with a duster afterwards when one of these are used.

I dont mean the fake wash leathers in the local supermarkets which go like a lot of slime.

I am having a massive disagreement with my OH at the moment because he washes the widows first with soap and water then uses glass cleaner to do it all over again, (Mr Muscle) he won’t accept that windolene etc are glass cleaners, driving me nuts!!! I said ‘would you thoroughly wash the dishes before putting them in the dishwasher!!!, eye openers, I only moved into his house 6 months ago.

Methylated spirit diluted in water.

window cleaner for outside and a good old fashioned chamois leather for inside

Water with a few drops of vinegar and scrim cloth. The problem I have is keeping shower screen clean, free from streaks. Not problem with limescale as water is soft.

I don’t know really why I’ve never tried it maggiemaybe maybe I should

The best thing to use is the distilled water that they sell at garages. You only need to liberally wet windows and then squeegee. It is what professional window cleaners use in my area and I see them forming queues early morning to get their water. You need to take a large plastic bottle as it comes out of a pump.

E Cloths for windows and plain water. One to clean and the other to dry. These cloths have changed my attitude to window cleaning. Also use the drying cloth on the shower door.

So long as I can see out of them I don't care.

My window cleaner only uses Fairy liquid in water, the windows come up a treat. I always used Windolene in the days.
Vinegar then newspaper were the order of the day when we were growing up.