Window Track Cleaning

Cleaning my window tracks seriously grossed me out.  They are such a neglected spot in my house and I have not deep cleaned them since we moved into the house.  They were overdue for some deep cleaning.  I found this pin and decided to try the window track cleaning section out.

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Supplies I used (Tupperware is holding vinegar)

Disgusting!  No judging please!

It worked well.  I will have to say that since this is a deep/detail cleaning it might take a little bit longer than a few minutes and if you are a perfectionist like me it might take you 30 minutes a window.  I wanted ALL the dirt out of there.  Here are some tips that made it faster and easier for me that I learned along the way:

1.  To get along the tiny tiny grove on the left just use a paper towel dipped in the vinegar.  Run it along the grove and it will pull everything up.  You can run a dry one along there after using a wet one as well.  I repeated this process a lot because I kept getting stuff that was way deep in there.  I tried to use toothpicks and it did not work as well.  It was much slower too.  

So gross!

2.  Toothpicks come in handy when you need to get in tiny corners.  Like the one the arrow is pointing to below.  I actually dipped the Q-Tip in the vinegar and put it in that hole to soften everything up and it did pull some of it out, but not the tiny corners.  So then I wrapped a paper towel around a toothpick and dipped it in the vinegar and got the tiny corners. 

3.  The center part with all the streaks was the hardest part.  Those streak marks were on there and did not want to leave.  I set some paper towels dipped in vinegar on there and left them.  Then I came back and scrapped them off with a mini metal spatula.  They came off much easier if I did that rather than just trying to use elbow grease.  I think that would have taken FOREVER.

So there you have it.  Please tell me that mine aren't the only ones neglected.