I use Sprayway and a micro fiber cloth for cleaning ALL windows.

Works miracles on my windshield!!!

I get it at Hobby Lobby w/the 40% off coupon... pretty decent price.
Sprayway

Outdoors I use a mix of water and white vinegar with a microfiber washer and squeegee. Indoors the same or for a quick wipe I'll use Sprayway glass cleaner.

I'm another Sprayway user. The active ingredient is denatured alcohol.

For the glass doors on the hutch spray your cleaning solution onto a cloth of some type until it is damp, beyond moist but not wet. Use that to wipe the glass then polish with another cloth while still wet. You must do this on both sides of the glass.

Glass Plus with newspaper for mirrors and windows.

Sprayaway with MF window cloth, wipe dry with MF glass polishing cloth. Squeaky clean, no streaks.

Sometimes indoor glass needs cleaned twice, once to dissolve the film, second to remove the film. The same film that forms on interior auto glass sometimes forms on interior house glass.

This last fall when I cleaned my windows (inside and out) I used old washcloths; initial clean with Windex/glass plus type cleaner (I had a couple of mostly used bottles of various brands) followed by a final spray and polish with Repel. I was very please with how they looked, and still do look even after all the rain, snow and wind we have had this winter.

first thought is YIKES, for heavens sake, NO! It's way to cold... ;) LOL

I use slightly soapy water with dish detergent Dawn, a second bucket with clear water and a shot of vinegar. Using two different rags to clean, and newspaper to buff.

That's really all that seems to be needed.

Moni

Olychick, I need an Eric! Do not like washing windows at all!

OklaMoni,

You got it! Two bucket was is always best.

Zep Foaming Glass Cleaner and a microfiber cloth. It is simply incredible. I use it on my car windows and not a single streak...it's truly amazing stuff. It even easily removes the old, dried bug guts from my headlights. Watch out if you use it on the sliding glass door, you may walk through it!

I think I got the recipe here.

• • 1
    cup rubbing alcohol
• 1/2
  cup ammonia
• 1/2
  cup vinegar
• 1
  tsp dishwashing liquid
• Pour into a half gallon jug and fill with water.

Stay away from Windex. It streaks.

The Zep is as good as the Sprayaway

"Let's wash the windows!"

Oh, let's not and say we did.

(Outside, I use the pressure washer. Inside, I use whatever glass cleaner I have on hand. If I had normal sized windows I would put more effort into it, but there are many and they are large.

What I have the devil of a time with are my mirrors. When I use anything on them they streak so I have to go over and over with plain paper towel. I don't get it...)

I'm with pennydesign! When it's a whole lot warmer than it is now, I use the alcohol/vinegar/cornstarch and water mixture with newspaper.

I need an Eric to wash my windows. Lol

Where can one acquire some of this "Eric"? Is it something one can use elsewhere in the house ?? I do enjoy a multi-purpose product...

I use plain water on my windows and a microfiber cloth. Clean and never any streaks. I do one window every Saturday at least inside as the weather in Pa doesn't allow for cleaning outside of the windows in the winter. The window above the kitchen sink gets washed about twice a week as its my view into the woods. Two or three times a year I wash all the window frames you know the metal the window slides up and down in. I clean mirrors the same way.

Water and a squeegee.

Well, Penny, he does wash my mirrors, once changed a light bulb for me and also washed the inside of my car windows!

I use Windex inside the house - just spray it on paper towel if it can't get on wood. House windows, inside and out are done by Sunshine window cleaners!

Water and a microfiber cloth and then wipe with a dry one immediately afterwards. Works for mirrors and windows.

DH does our window and he mixes his own: 1/4 c. alcohol, 1/4 c. vinegar, 1 Tbs corn starch, a few drops of dawn (optional) and 2 c water.

arkansas girl - ditto for me

Another Sprayway fan here. I learned about it some years ago at the KT. I get it at Walmart.

Marcy, you had to remind me! Maybe I’ll work on them in the spring. We’ve only had one rainstorm this winter, which spots up the windows. All Californians are hoping and praying for more. Wait!! Maybe if I wash them it WILL rain!

For me, the hardest thing to get off is dog nose marks. Vinegar seems to do the best. Car window and one house window where he can look out.

Indoors: Plain water on a microfiber towel followed by a dry microfiber towel.

Outdoors: Vinegar to get the calcium off followed by the wet/dry microfiber towels.

Vinegar and water with a little bit of alcohol to help it dry quickly, applied with scrunched up newspaper. Here's a story, just a little one, but it was touching to me. Many years ago, probably in the late 1980s, I washed the windows in my aunt Ruth's sunroom. There were a million of them! My cousin Michelle, Ruth's granddaughter, popped in and chatted with me. One day not too long ago, Michelle, now a grown up successful professional woman, posted on Facebook that she knew how to wash windows because her cousin Sylvia taught her.

Socks posting of dog nose prints reminded me of how when my kids were young, they would snack on a piece of bologna. But, they realized it would stick to the door wall (slider). I would have to wash off large round greasy spots on the windows!

I too want the multipurpose version of Eric. I don't enjoy washing windows or vacuuming! I read a consumer report which concluded that original Windex did the best job. Go figure.

Norwex! Wash with one cloth and dry with other....never any streaking! I was reluctant to spend that much on two pieces of fabric but so worth the money! I ordered mine online but DD bought hers at a Norwex party.

I use vinegar and water inside and out. I like old towels to clean and dry. My husband uses a squeegee and I hate the horizontal streaks.

My windows tilt in, so I never clean from outside.

A squeegee cleaning requires some learning and high quality tools and lots of towels to avoid streaks and messy sills.

If you have ever watched a window washer in action most use a squeegee but they overlap the strokes rather than just doing a stroke and moving down to the next wet area. Most that I have seen do several strokes then wipe the squeegee which helps.

I make a cleaning solution of 1 cup rubbing alcohol, 1/2 cup ammonia, 1/2 cup vinegar, 12 tbsp dishwashing liquid, and fill with water in a half-gallon jug. (a Cranberry juice container works perfectly).

Put in a spritz bottle and I use it to clean windows, car windows, mirrors, bathroom counters etc.

Spray with Windex; Wipe with paper towels. Same procedure for my car windows.