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In dreary and cold weather, when temperatures drop and it is much colder outside than in the interior, it’s time for housewives to start wiping the windowsill and the lower parts of the windows. Moisture on the windows, and above all on the windowsill, condenses and runs off. After a time when the windowsill is permanently damp or even wet, mold will sooner or later appear. This can be a problem because not only small children and allergy sufferers are affected, but mold can cause health problems even for completely healthy individuals. What helps? You’ll be surprised, but ordinary baking soda.
Useful helper in the household
Baking soda is a miraculous helper that cheaply and gently helps with the whole household. It can be used in the kitchen, but also for cleaning and maintenance, and it also finds its use in medicine. Baking soda is a versatile agent, moreover completely ecological, which will restore shine to dull surfaces, remove limescale from stainless steel, add shine to baking dishes, eliminate grime in the kitchen, and also odors in the fridge or pantry. Baking soda will also help with cleaning windows and prevent the formation of mold on windowsills. Don’t believe it?
How to clean windows and the windowsill before winter
Try a completely ecological preparation that you make yourself from the cheapest ingredients you have at home. Take powdered baking soda and sprinkle the windowsill, corners and channels on plastic windows, where most dirt accumulates and where condensed water runs off during cold weather. Sprinkle the areas thoroughly, then prepare vinegar which you pour drop by drop onto the baking soda. The mixture will start to foam, and the foam must get into all inaccessible places, corners and crevices between the window and the windowsill.
For finishing, use an old toothbrush
Let the foam work for a while so the dirt can loosen. Now take an old unused toothbrush and scrub all the places carefully to remove built-up dirt, dust and other particles that have gotten into the window and the corners of the windowsill. Finally take a table knife and a piece of cloth which you wrap around the knife. Wet the cloth and wipe away the loosened impurities. Thanks to the flat knife you’ll reach even the least accessible spots. After drying with a paper towel the windows and windowsill will shine, and they will fog up noticeably less thanks to the sprinkled baking soda.
