An everyday tip for cleaning skylights and Velux windows is to wipe and dry with a broom handle. Conventional window wipers often leave stripes and streaks in the hard-to-reach corners of the outside area. With simple tools, cleaning windows is easy to do without a ladder. All you need is a broomstick, a microfiber cloth, and hot soapy water – a glass scraper or a simple razor blade will help with very stubborn dirt.

Cleaning the skylight

Anyone who has sloping walls in their home knows the problem of dirty Velux windows. Either the windows cannot be turned far enough so that you could get into every corner of the outside window when cleaning and there are streaks or deposits in the areas that cannot be reached, or the windows are mounted so high that cleaning is not possible without a ladder or stool, let alone removing more stubborn dirt.

Cleaning the Velux windows

Since I’m only 1.60m tall, I’ve always had problems reaching the upper window frontage. I used to clean the windows with one of the commercially available window wipers with a telescopic rod, but I always had the problem of the window corners not really being wiped clean, especially on the outside of the Velux windows. Today I use a simple microfiber cloth and regular hot soapy water – I wrap the microfiber cloth around a broom handle long enough for me to reach every corner. The pressure that you exert on the window with this handle is enough to easily remove even more stubborn stains and deposits.

Dry skylight

I do the same thing with a broomstick to dry the windows. Incidentally, the microfiber cloth absorbs so well that no streaks or streaks remain. The broomstick also gets into every corner of the window when drying, from the outside and from the inside. The entire window area is quickly dried in this way.

Remove stubborn dirt

Very rarely there is dirt on Velux windows that cannot be removed with normal hot soapy water, for example, deposits such as cement or fungi that also settle on roofs. For this purpose, you can easily use a glass scraper for a ceramic hob in the lower area of ​​a Velux window. But you can’t get to the upper area again. For this purpose, I bought very simple razor blades, which I carefully hammer into the handle end of the broom with the help of a hammer. There they stay firmly in place, allowing the deposits on the glass surface of the Velux window to be scraped off.