WASHING WINDOWS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19014, 9 November 1923, Page 8

WASHING WINDOWS.

Windows are best cleaned with warm water containing ammonia. But if the glass has become very dirty a paste made of whiting and water, rubbed omapd allowed to dry before being removed with a soft cloth,' will be found effective. Windows should never be cleaned when the sun shines upon them, or they will dry streaky. A cloth fixed upon a stick is sometimes useful when cleaning windows. But there is a little contrivance sold, shaped like an arm. which is better still, ns it enables the outside to be done as well. There are several preparations made to prevent the steaming of windows, but few of them are successful. The real remedy is belter ventilation. Window glass is either sheet or plate, the latter being the more expensive. Plate glass is much thicker than sheet glass, and consequently heavier. Heavy windows are somewhat troublesome, but (ho great advantage of plate glass is. apart from the better appearance, that it deadens sounds from outside. A room fitted with plate glass windows is always much quieter than one in which the windows are of sheet glass. Glass can lie frosted with a solution of Epsom salts in beer and polished with rouge powder.