Samples (
Anything that produces an antistatic effect will repel dust on wooden blinds and hopefully, prevent the speed at which it builds up on the blind in future.
Whether you have real wood blinds or waterproof faux-wood blinds, a light dusting with a cloth or a feather duster is usually sufficient to clear away any dust in situ; you can also use the small, soft brush attachment on your vacuum cleaner to go over the slats too.
How you clean or dust your wooden blinds and what you use to do this can have an impact on how fast the dust returns to the blind as well; and this blog post will tell you what repels dust on wooden blinds most effectively, and your various options for doing this.
How do you keep wooden blinds dust-free?
Opening and closing your blinds regularly will help to ensure that dust doesn’t really get the chance to build up in the first place, and reduces the frequency at which you need to dust them. However, you do still need to dust your wooden blinds occasionally nonetheless; and you can wipe them over with a damp cloth now and then too, although you should take care not to get them overly wet, as real wooden blinds are not waterproof.
What repels dust on wooden blinds and keeps it off?
Anything that has an anti-static effect will help to repel dust from wooden blinds and keep it off, and there are quite a few options available to you here. Many furniture polishes/waxes and wood-specific cleaning sprays contain an anti-static agent, so these are worth looking out for. Also, simple anti-static sprays can be used after cleaning and dusting to lengthen the time for which your blinds should stay dust-free.
Whatever you use to dust the blind with, such as a cloth or duster, should be anti-static too; some cleaning cloths and dusters will specify this, and microfibre cloths are fine as well.
Additionally, you can use a tumble dryer sheet to wipe over the slats of wooden blinds; these will both remove dust and produce an anti-static effect to help to keep it off.
How do you keep wooden blinds dust-free in unused rooms?
Really, the simplest way to keep wooden blinds dust-free is to open and close them each day rather than leaving them in situ for long periods of time. If you do have wooden blinds in a little-used room and so, don’t open and close them often, we still recommend operating them (opening, closing, and rotating the slats) at least once a week, both to reduce dust build up and to prevent the operating mechanisms from eventually seizing up.
Also, if you do leave your blinds in one position most of the time, having the blind either fully open with the slats stacked flush, or the blind closed with the slats all lying vertically will reduce the available surface area there for dust to build up on.
