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Does the Mrs Hinch tip for cleaning blinds with a dryer sheet work? Yes, for certain types of window blinds.
The phenomenon that is Mrs Hinch is something that long confused me, with my core takeaways being: Mrs Hinch. Likes cleaning for some reason, appears to be quite good at it. Has a huge social following due to said flair for cleaning.
Seriously, what a time to be alive. When life gives you lemons, make “this one cool hack to remove grime from grout” with them. More power to the woman, and I’m not even being sarcastic, which is unusual for me. I’m still somewhat confused that you can now get hugely Insta-famous (and presumably rich) for being an excellent cleaner though.
On which note, here at English Blinds we get a lot of questions about how to clean window blinds, so I’ve been searching online to see if there are any tricks we’ve been missing, and then trying them out.
This hunt for new tips and tricks to clean blinds ultimately brought me to Mrs Hinch. Cleaning window blinds is something she’s got views on; one of which is to try using a tumble dryer sheet to clean window blind slats.
So, is the Mrs Hinch window blind cleaning tip for using a tumble dryer sheet on blind slats sound or not? Read on and I’ll explain all.
Mrs Hinch’s tip for cleaning Venetian blinds: Use a tumble dryer sheet
Mrs Hinch’s advice for cleaning window blinds with a tumble dryer sheet is a hack for cleaning Venetian blinds. They’re the blinds that are constructed of horizontal slats, almost always made of enamel-painted aluminium when just referred to as “Venetian blinds,” but also available in real wood and faux-wood variants too.
While cleaning Venetian blinds is fairly simple when you’re just dealing with dust rather than grime, the downside of this is that actually dusting a thing can produce static that quickly attracts that dust right back to it.
For this reason we’ve long recommended cleaning Venetian blinds with a microfibre cloth or something else specifically designed to reduce static; but Mrs Hinch’s Venetian blind cleaning tip involves using a tumble dryer sheet instead, as these are designed to reduce static build-up in the tumble dryer.
I had a go at this myself, in one of the dustier areas of the workshop; because while dust seems to accumulate at home in about 3.5 minutes, when you’re actually trying to make dust do something, it apparently takes weeks to mobilise its troops.
I took three sets of aluminium window blind slats and dusted each of them, one with a feather duster and the other two with two different types of tumble dryer sheets. After a week, while the slats I had dusted with a feather duster had indeed grown a relatively impressive fur coat, the other two sets were faring a lot better.
Also, if you’re keen to know what brand of tumble dryer sheets help to reduce static on window blinds most effectively, Poundland’s own cheap version and the rather more spendy Lenor option both came out exactly equal.
But if either Poundland or Lenor are reading this and want that to change, feel free to ask for my Venmo.
Does the Mrs Hinch tumble dryer sheet cleaning tip for blinds work?
So, does the Mrs Hinch tip for cleaning Venetian blinds with a tumble dryer sheet work? Yes, this is good. Am impressed. Beginning to understand the hype about Mrs Hinch a little bit now, ok.
Obviously the tip on Hinching your blinds with a tumble dryer sheet is only good for blinds made of hard slats, being aluminium Venetian blinds and wood or faux-wood blinds. It won’t work on fabric blinds (such as Roman or roller blinds) for obvious reasons; nor vertical blinds made of fabric rather than of PVC.
Aside from those caveats, this hack on dusting Venetian blinds with a tumble dryer sheet is solid, will help to reduce static and so, dust, and won’t damage your window blinds. Mrs Hinch for the win.
