Artificial snow makes an easy and fun way to decorate your windows, patio doors and storm doors during the Christmas season. Unfortunately, the time is upon us that it is time to get rid of both the holiday pounds and the artificial snow that we added over the holiday season.
Here are some ideas on how to clean up your windows without making an additional mess.
Loose Snow on Your Windows
For the snow that is loosely attached to your window, or just lying on the sill or on the ground below, use your vacuum cleaner to get it up. The best attachment to use is the small one that attaches to the vacuum hose with the bristles on it. This way the bristles can loosen up the little artificial snow particles a more so that you can get as much vacuumed up as possible.
Firmly Attached Snow on Your Window
For the rest of the artificial snow that you can’t get off of your window you can wash it off. While many people scrape the snow off their windows, this isn’t as good of an idea as people think. First, with scraping you are taking the chance of scratching the glass. Second, the snow that you scraped off has to go somewhere and usually that is all over the place; creating another mess for you to clean up.
Instead, spray the snow with a window cleaner that is dispensed from an aerosol can in small sections at a time. Let the cleaner sit for about 30 seconds and then take a paper towel that is folded or crumpled up and rub the cleaner into the artificial snow with medium pressure until it starts to come off of the glass.
Repeat the above steps until all of the snow is off the window.
Protect the Areas around Your Window
When you are cleaning up artificial snow the way explained above, there should be very little, if any, cleaner and wet snow dripping off of your windows. However, it is always best to take precautions and protect your wood sill and carpet below your window.
So, after you are done vacuuming the area around the windows, put down towels on both the carpet and the window sill. That way if you do have anything drip off your window on accident, the area around it will already be protected.
Source: eHow.com
