Cleaning house windows and oven?

[smiles4u]

If using Windex window cleaner for the windows i too recommend using newspaper to buff it up shiny with ... It's a trick my Mum taught many years ago

... I buy the Windex ' Crystal Rain ' labelled spray bottle ... it's smells gorgeous (like a really nice room spray if you use indoors at some point ... say on mirrors) ... doesn't stink anything like the usual Windex smell !!

[DiannaQ]

you can clean windows with diluted white vinegar and newspaper and the oven with a bi-carb paste - that you mix up yourself and let it dry on the oven then come back and wipe off - bit a big job but then again cleaning an oven is - YUK!!!!!!! - wanna come do mine??

[Kazbah]

Windows - use tea leaves (used!) and newspaper, they come up sparkling. If you use vinegar on glass, always use a clean water damp cloth to remove vinegar residue as it can eat into the glass. Meths also works a treat on glass (I put a capful of meths in my windscreen washer water to leave it streak-free).

For the oven glass, paste of bi-carb and lemon juice, leave it for a while and remove with plastic scourer then newspaper & water. The rest of the oven the same

Actually, lemon / lime or grapefruit are all good for cleaning.

[Lulu]

Leave a bowl of water in the oven and turn it on low to loosen to hard bits - there is no need to use those horrible caustic chemicals.