What products are best for making house windows gleam ?

A window cleaner! ?

You beat me to it GrandMattie !

i use the ocado window cleaning stuff but in all honesty it just smells like vinegar

I don’t clean them when the sun is on them because that makes them smeary.
If I do bother my favourite product which my window cleaner recommends is Elbow Grease.

A window vac really does make all the difference. I use a bit of Mr Muscle cleaner in the bottle (get the one with a squirty bottle as well as the squeegee vac bit) and it really takes seconds to clean a large window.

Mr Muscle glass cleaner, that is. The green liquid.

Microfibre window cleaning cloths and plain water. One cloth to clean, the other to dry.

Haha yes I already have a window cleaner! But I’m doing the inside

Warm water with dash of fairy and a microfibre cloth to wash and old tea towels to dry.

If the window panes are dirty, which often happens in windy and wet weather, I wash them first inside and out with warm water and washing-up liquid. Then using a different cloth I wash them in warm water and either vinegar or methylated spirit.

Then I polish them with crumpled up newspaper.

They need to be dried completely to avoid streaks and should always be cleaned in overcast weather, as they dry too fast if the sun is on them.

Why do windows have to gleam. Providing that they are clean and you can see out what more do you need?

Hot water, good quality washing-up liquid, old rags, followed by a microfibre cloth for drying/polishing. Or you can use scrunched up newspaper for that.

Old style pink Windolene. I found some in an independent hardware store and it’s magic!

ungers, wonderful, streak free and very good cleaner

I just could not get on with my window vac, however many times I tried, I still ended up with streaks from the rubber squeegee thingy!

I have a cleaner now who will clean my inside windows if I ask her to, I just tell her which areas not to do that visit to give her the time.

We've tried everything (including windolene) except a Karcher. Nothing works.
I think the secret is not to look at them when the sun is shining.

A window cleaner

Vinegar and a scrim.

I have just bought H&G window cleaner. It was on offer half price at Ocado, not cheap but brilliant. Guaranteed streak free. I always rate H&G products.

Window cleaner for the outside. DH and micro fibre clothes one wet for the inside.

We have wash leathers which husband bought online.
they work well (plus a bit of elbow grease) but might be unpopular in these days of animal rights.

Audi10

Well I think I’ve tried everything apart from newspaper and vinegar, what do you use to clean yours gransnetters?

Newspaper and vinegar.

Why haven’t you tried it, out of interest? We were taught this way when we lived in Germany back in the 70s, and have never used anything else since. A good shake of white vinegar in warm water, wipe it on, dry it off with crumpled newspaper till it squeaks. No smears, and no cost to speak of, either to your purse or the environment.

I'm going to try vinegar!

Fingers crossed, nadateturbe!