How to easily wash the chandelier with your own hands: housewives tips
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Many will agree that the purity of the chandelier affects the mood in the house. Home lighting depends on how clean this interior decoration will be. In some apartments or houses, cleaning often goes around the chandelier. This can be explained by the fact that cleaning it is quite difficult - you need to follow safety precautions, and washing it is inconvenient. However, despite this, the chandelier needs to be cleaned regularly. How to do it best?
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So, you decided to pay attention to the chandelier and wash it thoroughly. When is this best done? The answer is obvious - during daylight hours. At the same time, you need to consider in which direction the windows in the room are directed in order to choose the time of day when the room will be as light as possible. Cleaning the room should begin with washing the chandelier, because during cleaning and processing the chandelier with water, dust and moisture from it will appear on the floor.
Before cleaning the chandelier, you need to assess the degree of contamination. If it is clean enough, then removing it is not necessary. If your lighting fixture is very dirty, you still have to remove it. If you do not remove the chandelier, be sure to turn off the electricity before this. In addition, you need to remove the bulbs and protect the cartridges from moisture. To do this, they can be wrapped with a film. For washing you will need:
- table or stepladder;
- an apron with pockets;
- gloves
- a film to protect the furniture in the room;
- clean water in a stable container (for example, in a basin);
- brush;
- dry and wet rags.
However, first of all, you need to take care of security, so it’s better to remove the chandelier. By removing the chandelier, you will protect yourself from electric shock. In this case, anyway, you have to unscrew the bulbs and protect the cartridges from water.
How to wash a chandelier without removing
If you still decide to go the simpler way and leave the chandelier in place, then the first thing, as mentioned earlier, you need to turn off the electricity in the room. Then you need to choose what to get to the chandelier. An ideal option would be a stepladder - it is stable, you can stand on it to the desired height, it is convenient to climb onto it.
If there is no ladder, in this case you can use the table, and if the height of the table is not enough, you can still take a chair. In this situation, someone must be there for security. Another important point: when working on a table or on a chair, you need to position yourself so that the chandelier is in front of the eyes, and not above the head. Otherwise, there may be dizziness due to the fact that the head will be lifted up and the muscles can squeeze blood vessels. As a result, you may be injured.
When using energy-saving lamps, you need to know that they are very fragile, so removing them is undesirable. It is better to wrap them in plastic bags fixed with tape.
How to wash a chandelier
To wash the chandelier, it is undesirable to use a soap solution. In this case, it will be necessary to rinse the plafonds several times with clean water to clean them of soapy stains. A soap solution can only be used to wash removed items (shades, pendants), which can then be washed several times then in clean water.
The best option for washing the chandelier are special aerosol cleaners. Such aerosols allow you to clean the chandelier quickly and efficiently. They are in every hardware store.
How to wash a crystal chandelier
If the crystal chandelier is in a room with hermetically sealed windows and good ventilation, then severe pollution does not threaten it. In this case, it can be cleaned with an anti-static panicle. Such a panicle not only removes dust, but also does not form static electricity. During cleaning, it is better to use cloth gloves so as not to leave fingerprints.
How to wash a crystal chandelier without removing it? How to wash it quickly? To do this, there is a simple way - using aerosol foam. You need to place a cloth under the chandelier and spray the chandelier with foam. Foam should drain onto the fabric.
There is a cheaper way. The chandelier needs to be disassembled and carefully washed each element of it with dishwashing liquid dissolved in water. Then all parts must be thoroughly washed with clean water and ammonia (100 ml of alcohol per 0.5 l of water). Instead of a solution of ammonia, you can use a dry, clean rag.