Regular maintenance helps preserve your blinds but you can also spot clean any stains or marks with soapy water.
How to clean vinyl vertical blinds the easy way.
Begin by dusting vertical blinds and cellular blinds with a feather duster or the brush attachment on your vacuum cleaner.
Wet a car washing brush and brush the blinds from side to side and then turn them over and brush the other side.
For tips on how to dust and wash fabric vertical blinds see cleaning vertical fabric blinds below.
If you still need additional cleaning after dusting wash or spot clean blinds.
Don t use water on wood blinds.
Follow the manufacturer s directions for cleaning the type of blinds you have.
Vinyl blinds splattered with grease such as in a kitchen require a bit more cleaning than blinds that are simply dusty.
While vertical blinds gather less dust than horizontal blinds they still get dirty over time and need to be cleaned every so often.
Use caution when handling the vertical blind vanes the tabs at the top of each vane can break off if they are pulled too far in any direction.
The instructions below are for vinyl pvc plastic.
Open the blinds and dust them from the top to the bottom on both sides.
Put a few drops of dishwashing soap in a bucket of water.
Rigid vinyl vanes the most common and soft fabric vanes.
Since the blinds are vinyl they may be washed with a mild soap and water.
To clean metal and vinyl blinds follow this method.