WASHING WINDOWS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 529, 5 December 1928, Page 9

WASHING WINDOWS

HINTS THAT HELP Most people think they know how to wash windows, but a contemporary, the “Decorator,” assures us that In this, as with everything else, there is a right and a wrong way to go about the work. This is the right way: Choose a dull day, if possible, or at any rate a time when the sun is not shining direct on the windows, for under such conditions they are apt to dry with dry streaks as in bacon, no matter how much they are rubbed. Take a painter’s brush and dust them inside and out, washing all the woodwork inside before touching the glass. The latter should be washed slowly in warm water diluted with a little ammonia. Soap should not be used. Use a small cloth with a pointed stick to get the dust out of the corners, and dry with a piece of soft cotton cloth —not linen, as it makes the glass linty when dry. Polish with tissue paper or old newspaper. You will find that this can be done in far less time than ■Mien soap is used, and the result will be brighter windows.

< Dates for Tenders

December 6, at 12 noon.—Additions to Taneatua School (near Whakatane): alterations to Opotiki School; removal and re-erection of Whangarei Manual and Technical School Building. Auckland Education Board. December 7, at 2.30 p.m.—Erection of brick and reinforced concrete warehouse in Anzac Avenue. Basil Hooper, Southern Cross Buildings. December 13, at 12 noon.—Erection of shelter shed at Peria School, Mangonui; erection of shelter shed at Mfngateparu School, Morrinsville. Auckland Education Board. December 13, at 12 noon.—Erection of additions to Takanini School; erection of additions to Raglan School; erection of additions to Mangere Central School. Auckland Education Board. December 18, at 12 noon —Er.- -n of bank premises in Dominion RqsukL JD* B. Patterson, Shortland Street.