Journey with Confidence RV GPS App RV Trip Planner RV LIFE Campground Reviews RV Maintenance Take a Speed Test Free 7 Day Trial ×
 

Go Back   Montana Owners Club - Keystone Montana 5th Wheel Forum > GIRLS gone MOC > House Keeping
Click Here to Login

Reply
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread Display Modes
 
Old 03-27-2008, 03:44 PM   #1
Mrs. CountryGuy
Montana Master
 
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: _
Posts: 5,238
M.O.C. #6337
Day night shades, a cleaning solution or two

This has been something that has bothered me for a while, not long ago, there was a thread about it,and there was a suggestion to use "distilled" water, or someething like that.

In the meantime, we have done these two things lately, and they seemed to have helped.

1.) Dusted the shades with my felt hat cleaner. Sometime along the way, somewhere, I purchased a hat brush, to clean my black felt hat. The Texas dust really shows on that black, and this soft brush works great on it. PLUS, it is long and not very wide. I found it worked great to rub off dust, sure, it went other places, OUCH, but, it got the shades looking better.

2.) We had a few small stains on one of the blinds, in the kitchen area, obviously, we splashed food on them somehow, got nice orange colored stains. Last week Al said, enough, I am gonna try this: Mixed up some Oxiclean, blotted it on, with another cloth behind the shade. He blotted several times, then sprayed lightly with some clean water and blotted more. Then put the shade UP till it dryed. Stains are gone, and I don't believe there are any water marks, at least I have not seen them yet.

So, there ya go, for whatever it is worth.
 
Mrs. CountryGuy is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-02-2008, 02:58 AM   #2
Snowhawk
Montana Fan
 
Join Date: May 2006
Location: North Ridgeville
Posts: 373
M.O.C. #5774
Send a message via Yahoo to Snowhawk
Good ideas Carol... I'll have to try that! I recently had to restring one of our shades because one of the strings broke. The company sent us new strings (although the paperwork indicates that the string should be all one piece... I received two.) It's not really hard and was a lot easier to do with a large yarn needle to thread the string through the holes.
If anyone else ever needs to rethread one of those shades... let me know if you need help. Getting the valance down was a real bear... but has to be done because the shades are not mounted the way the manufacturer recommends. They are screwed in! grrrr
Snowhawk is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Cleaning day/night shades brooksider Maintenance 1 09-02-2013 12:29 PM
Day/Night Shades lestx General Discussions about our Montanas 18 07-30-2013 12:58 PM
Awning Cleaning Solution klandry Maintenance 2 10-17-2009 03:48 AM
Day/night shades otto0813 Montana Problems, Problem Solving & Technical Help 2 11-24-2006 02:21 PM
Cleaning the day/night shades Montana_3045 It's a Dirty Job but Someone has to do it! 11 03-21-2005 07:46 AM

» Featured Campgrounds

Reviews provided by

Powered by vBadvanced CMPS v3.2.3
Disclaimer:

This website is not affiliated with or endorsed by Montana RV, Keystone RV Company or any of its affiliates. This is an independent, unofficial site.


All times are GMT -6. The time now is 08:19 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.9
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.