Products Maintenance / Care and Cleaning
All Innovative Window Fashions products are made for a lifetime of wear-resistant, trouble-free performance. See the Care and Cleaning information on the following paragraphs for additional care and maintenance recommendations for most IWF products.
Recommended Cleaning Methods
Dusting: Regular light dusting maintains a like-new appearance for most blinds, shades, sheers, shutters and fabric panels.
Vacuuming: For deeper cleaning, vacuum gently with a hand vacuum cleaner. Most products may be vacuumed using a vertical stroke; however, do not use a brush attachment with Privacy Sheers, Solar Shades and Silhouettes shades.
Compressed air: or hair dryer COOL SETTING ONLY Using a low pressure setting, you can blow dust off all window coverings.
Spot-cleaning: Spot-clean shades and blinds with a soft cloth or sponge moistened with lukewarm water. Add mild detergent if needed. Blot gently to avoid creasing or damaging to the fabric. Rubbing can damage fabrics. Spot-cleaning may result in cleaner areas.
Notes:
Certain honeycomb: and rollers fabrics should not be spot- cleaned. Use cool, distilled water when spot cleaning silhouette window shadings, Solar Shades and or Sheer verticals.
Aluminum /2” blinds: Use an over-the-counter blinds cleaner with a soft cloth.
Vinyl and aluminum vertical blinds: Reduce build-up of static electricity by applying a very thin film of detergent on all vanes.
Bathtub cleaning: Water immersion for Aluminum Blinds only. This method is used for aluminum blinds
Important! Honeycomb, Solar Shades, Silhouettes Shades, fabric-covered head-rails, fabric-covered valances or fabric-covered returns, should not be immersed in water.
Important: DO NOT USE IRON OR STEAMER FOR SILHOUETTES /VIENNAS/ SHEER VERTICAL, SOLAR SHADES, ROLLER SHADES AND SUN SCREEN SHADES AND FABRIC VERTICALS.
Steaming: Steaming can be done to remove wrinkles from some fabrics for your drapery only. A hand-held travel size steamer that provides continuous steam is best.
Care and Cleaning helpful hints
ALTERNATIVE Wood or Vinyl Products: Shutters
Wood or Hybrid Products
Cloth Tapes on 2” blinds
Fabric Shades, Shadings or Window Panels
Should you need further assistance, please contact us and we will be happy to provide further assistance.