Taking care of your environment begins with proper maintenance of your home.
Cleaning, repair and replacing of the different equipments and materials in the home is a necessary step in ensuring your home looks good.
Home windows give you the light, act as ventilation or and provide privacy but when they are not maintained they can change the interior and exterior's beauty of your home.
Wooden windows rot with long exposure to dampness, painted windows peel off with time, whatever design, color or material of window you have, they always need maintenance.
When you decide to take care of your home windows there are things that you should always remember.
Do not wait until your windows are rotten, rusted and cracked.
You can repaint formerly painted windows and window frames, filling up cracks or holes in the wooden windows, soak with wood preservative, sand smoothing and paint.
For aluminum windows you can scrub with bristle brush and detergent, polish with steel wool and coat with paste wax.
Washing your windows should be done once in a while depending on the type of window or how long it takes to accumulate dirt.
If you have a big home with many windows you can divide the rooms and decide where to start from on different days.
Dusting, cleaning with sponge or cloth in a solution in circular motions and drying with squeegee, paper towel or newspapers are the basic cleaning steps in cleaning a glass window.
The frames of your windows should also be cleaned and wiped to remove accumulated dust.
If you have home window tinting the maintenance is the same as the glass window.
Do not use hard or harsh materials on tinted windows because they scrub off the tint.
Home window tinting has improved the look of homes that you should not use ammonia based products because they react with the tint.
Vinyl windows are maintenance free and are good to use on the parts of your home where you can't reach for instance the higher parts of the room if you have high windows.