First of all - the main thing: the curtains need to be changed (and therefore be washed or cleaned at least twice a year. The rest of the time they will benefit from a regular airing of the room. Open the Windows and let the curtains palowoda in the wind for several hours. So unobtrusive you'll shake off the dust from them, and at the same time refresh the air in the house.
In the cleaning
Blinds of all kinds (up to tulle) you can get the dry cleaning. Besides, some of the cleaning company, along with cleaning and washing Windows offer an additional service for dry cleaning of curtains. In this case, you don't have to leave the house and even to remove the curtains from the curtain rods. If your curtains from expensive natural fabrics - they direct route to the dry cleaners. In other cases, it is possible to do the Laundry.
In the Laundry
Washing can survive curtains made of synthetic or blended (they should be at least 10% synthetic) fabrics, as well as kitchen curtains made of cotton. Because the event is usually extremely rare, and the curtains really want to return to the pristine purity and freshness - there are some General rules that apply to all types of curtains:
Before soak, curtains need a good shake out the dust (this is best done on the street - but the fit and balcony).
- Before washing them should be soaked in either plain water or water with added detergent - sometimes this procedure should be repeated two or three times, each time changing the water (depending on degree of contamination).
- After washing, thoroughly rinse the curtains. Otherwise, the contact residues of detergents with sunlight, the fabric can fade.
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Curtains and Drapes
If you do not enter the national team in weightlifting, it is best to take the thick curtains and Drapes in the cleaning, especially if you do not know the composition of the tissue. If you do decide to wash - will have to do it carefully, and then, long and tedious. To get rid of stubborn in heavy material dust, curtains must first be soaked several times in plain cold water (you can add baking soda or salt) and several times in lukewarm water with powder. After that hand or gentle machine wash with gentle means. Do not scrub, boil. Rinse in warm, then cold water. And no squeezing! Let the water drain out, so as not to damage the texture of the fabric and not to stretch it.
Velvet fabric. Velvet curtains, cleaned from dust with a brush, then wipe with a soft woolen cloth soaked in gasoline, and dried. Then again clean woolen cloth, but dipped in wine alcohol.
- Tapestry. This material prescribed dry-cleaning brush or a vacuum cleaner. You can also wipe the tapestry with a slightly damp sponge.
The flock. To remove the dust you can use a vacuum cleaner, a sponge or a soft brush for clothes. Regular care for the curtains of the flock will retain their silky luster.
Tulle, silk, organza
Thin nature, and therefore treat them to be extremely carefully.
Pre-soaked them in cold water (to remove the dust, you have to change the water). But do not abuse time: if synthetic curtains will stay for a long time wet, they may be formed of folds, which are not amenable to smoothing.
Then the curtains are washed manually when the water temperature up to 30 degrees. If your washing machine has a mode with delicate wash with prohibition pressed, you can use it. Because blinds and curtains are usually very rumpled, before loading into the car put them in a pillowcase. Wash separately, making sure that the weight does not exceed half the recommended rates of loading. Iron organza and tulle at the lowest temperature.
By the way, a great way to avoid Ironing - hang the washed curtains on the window wet.
How to return to the tulle white: "old wives" remedies
- Darkened and yellowed cotton tulle soak before washing in salt water (1 tablespoon salt to 1 liter of water).
In hot water, add 1 tbsp. of ammonia, 2 tablespoons of 3% hydrogen peroxide, and lower it carefully straightened tulle for 30 min, then rinse well.
Kitchen curtains
Kitchen curtains a lot easier to deal with than others. Usually they are made from inexpensive cotton or synthetic fabric that can withstand frequent washing. Here are a few simple steps:
- To kitchen curtains lighter washed out, soak them overnight in salted cold water, and then add salt to the powder in the wash.
- Calico curtains washed in cold salted water, rinse in water with vinegar.
Cotton always sits, and the color still fades. So when you select a wash temperature of not more than specified on the label.
Note!
Before sewing the curtains, soak the cloth, then to not have trouble with shrinkage when washing. Or hem the curtains with solid stock.
Now, when you hung clean curtains and white tulle, take them critically - maybe we should replace the usual window decor to something more bright and early spring?
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