DIY Cleaning Hard Water Off Exterior Windows

This Labor Day, we labored away, cleaning our exterior windows. We just moved into a new home and we have to put in some elbow grease to sparkle it up. Lucky we found a way to remove hard water stains naturally and easily.




Here's a closer look at the grossness.  Here's what we did.


Spray window with DIY Natural Hard Water Solution. Recipe below.
The hard water solution is made up of 3 parts; vinegar, dawn dish soap, and lemon juice. Fill a spray bottle half full with vinegar. Fill the remaining half of the bottle with one part dish soap and one part lemon juice. 

Let set for 10 minutes and then get a bucket of water to dip into and a stiff bristle brush, and scrub away. 

Squeegee in downward strokes.

Wipe off excess water.

Dry with a dry rag

There you go! We had to do one window twice because the hard water was so bad, but I think they look beautiful! 


On a side note, I got the idea of the hard water solution somewhere on Pinterest, and sadly I did not pin it, thus I don't know who to give credit to. But since I couldn't find that pin again, I had to just improvise and I bet my ratios are a little different. But whoever discovered that these 3 ingredients go together well is a genius. 

Stephanie