How to Clean Your Ceiling Fans Quickly and Easily

Ceiling fans have some good and bad qualities to them. They provide a way to keep the air in a room fresh, and to cool the house in the summer. Ceiling fans are also famous for collecting dust. Worse yet, any dust that collects on ceiling fans will likely end up being tossed all over the room by the blades. Fortunately, it’s not that hard to clean ceiling fans. Most of them do not require that you clean them with soap and water.

Ceiling fans that get the occasional maintenance cleaning do much better than those that do not. If you keep the dust from piling up on the blades, you’ll find that you need to get the ladder and rag out less frequently than you would otherwise. The best tool for cleaning ceiling fans is an extendable dusting tool that is sold at most hardware and discount stores. This duster allows you to reach ceiling fans that are mounted on high ceilings without having to use a ladder.

If you have to clean your ceiling fans more thoroughly, you can use mild soap and water. It doesn’t take long. The blades on the ceiling fan, particularly those surfaces facing the direction of rotation, are usually the toughest parts to clean. Give them a good scrubbing with a rag. Make sure you dust them off before you use water, however. When your ceiling fans have been cleaned off, you can simply run them for a while to dry off any water that may have remained on the blades.