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A Wipe Across the Front Is Not Cleaning a Venetian

Blinds are the thing everybody means to get to and nobody does. The dust builds evenly across every slat, so there is nothing to compare it against until you clean one and hold it next to the next window.

Richmond is single-fronted Victorian cottages, terraces and converted warehouses, packed tightly between Bridge Road, Swan Street and Church Street. Narrow, deep floor plans and very little off-street parking.

The narrow plan concentrates traffic. In a single-fronted cottage every person walks the same hallway line from the front door to the kitchen, so the wear pattern is sharper here than in a wide suburban house. Traffic-lane greying is the number one thing we are called about in Richmond.

A lot of Richmond carpet is laid straight over the original hardwood boards with minimal underlay. That changes how much moisture is safe to use, so we run drier and put more air movement in rather than saturating a floor that has nowhere to drain.

Vertical blinds fail differently from venetians. The vanes collect dust along the leading edge, the weights and chain at the bottom gather grime, and the carrier track above jams with the same dust, which is why old verticals start dropping vanes long before the fabric itself has worn out.

The part that matters is the edges. Running a cloth across the face of a venetian moves dust from the middle of each slat and leaves a dark line along both edges, which is why home-cleaned blinds still look grey. Slat by slat, both faces and the edges, is the only method that actually works.