I don’t know what they’ve done to Windex but it doesn’t work any more.

What do you guys use?

The Windex multi-surface seems to streak. I thought the Windex Original (with Ammonia-D!) was still OK. I use it to clean dog nose prints from the storm door.

For washing the windows on the house, I bought one of these Libman kits. It has a concentrated Libman window cleaner and I've been really happy with it.

https://www.menards.com/main/g...5269&ipos=5&exp=true

Just the concentrated cleaner:

https://www.menards.com/main/g...5625&ipos=4&exp=true


If the windows are really filthy, sometimes I have a separate wet microfiber cloth just to get the major grunge off. Otherwise, I scrub the window with the fleecy thing dipped in the diluted cleaner, squeegee off the glass, and wipe the edges of the glass with a cotton cloth because the squeegee doesn't quite do them perfectly.


Goes super fast, no streaks.

We use white vinegar in water. We have a squeegee with a scrubbing cloth on one side. Works great. No streaks.

I almost never was windows and they don’t seem to get dirty.

J

I haven’t done window washing in quite a while but used to get great results with plain old ammonia and a sharp squeegee. Can’t recall if I diluted it. Sometimes you have to let the ammonia sit there for a bit.

I have a book on housecleaning written by a professional janitor. Good tips in there.

I'm in the vinegar and water club for windows.

This is, hands down, the best glass and mirror cleaner. It’s called sprayway. (This is coming from somebody who had to clean horse dust and bird**** off of arena mirrors)

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Sp...ner-SW050R/202742037

Back when I was in grad school, I rented an apartment with a huge mirror over the fireplace. The place had been a hair salon for years before they turned it into an apartment and the mirror was covered in a buildup of hair product goop. I spent several hours straight trying to get that mirror streak free and clean using several different glass cleaner products. A friend stopped over, saw me, and laughed -- he told me the key wasn't in the spray but in what you used to wipe. Told me to put away my paper towels and ball up some regular old black-and-white newspaper and wipe with that. I was totally skeptical - I thought newsprint would make the mirror way worse (think of how it turns your hand black if you handle it long enough!!!) but at this point, I figured anything was worth a try. He was right - ONE quick spray and wipe with the newspaper and that mirror sparkled like new. Now I use newspaper to clean my windows all the time - it works amazingly well with no streaking at all. Doesn't seem to matter what I use as cleaning spray - it works great no matter what. Give it a try!

That said, Invisible Glass in the aerosol can is my favorite glass cleaner -- it's foaming and probably a lot like the stuff Jodi recommended. I use it on the bathroom mirrors which I just clean with normal paper towels and not newspaper and it never streaks. Needs to be the aerosol version though - the liquid version in the spray bottle doesn't work nearly as well. Alas, we recently inherited a costco-sized refill vat of windex from my inlaws that will probably take me the rest of my life to use up so I guess I'm a windex girl now.

Spray aerosol window cleaner on bumper stickers to remove them.