Welcome to Cleaning Moments with Linda.
My name is Linda Pearce and I'm a Norwex Independent Sales Consultant.
Way back in July 2008 when I attended the Norwex
party I didn't want to attend, I actually ended up placing a one hundred dollar
order and in that order was a Car Wash Mitt - actually it was a Bathroom Mitt
that could also be used on the car. So my consultant delivered the order one
afternoon and I was very excited about using the products and I thought
"hey, I'm gonna give this Mitt a go on my screen" and it was the fly screen right near my kitchen
and although my friends consider me to be a clean freak I clearly had not cleaned my
fly screens before - if you had seen what the Mitt looked like once I was done
It was so pitch-black so my Green Mitt was black all except for this
little bit of stitching down the center of the Mitt which helps that stay on your hand so...
I showed Pete, my husband, and he's like "oh yeah you know let's
just see how good it looks in the morning" - well in the morning I'm like
"honey you can see out!" So it did an amazing job and you know the other great
thing that happens when you Clean your fly screens is that you improve air
flow into your home, so that's really great for summertime - not so great for winter.
One time I had a host call me and she said, "Linda I've got a complaint!"
I'm like thinking on no, what is it? and I'm like oh tell me what it what is it
and she's like, "well I've got so much cold air coming into my home now since
you cleaned my fly screen!" It was the middle of winter I'm like oh gee I'm so
sorry yeah so but it is good if you've got young children as well to keep your
fly screens clean but I remember my children when they were little you know
standing at the front door with their mouths and tongues on the screen
and it's really really not lovely if you think about how dirty these screens can get
You know I sell a lot more Norwex Car Mitts for flyscreen cleaning then for car cleaning -
and once you see this demo you'll understand why.
So here in Australia most of us have flyscreens and you may think
"well hey, I gurney mine so they're clean!" Well, I've actually found from experience
where I've had hosts that have said to me, "oh Linda, don't worry about cleaning
the flyscreen today at my party because my husband gurney-ed them just yesterday"
and I'll say, "oh look, can I just have a go at doing the inside and we'll see how
see how it turns out." And every single time I've been able to clean quite a bit
of dirt from the inside of the screen that they didn't get off with the gurney.
So, when you're cleaning a screen with the Car Mitt you want to wet it under the
tap first so wet it - give it a good wring out. If you clean your fly screen with a
dry Car Mitt, what will happen is you'll get a whole heap of dust just
flicked out on to you - it's really not very pleasant.
My other tip when it comes to cleaning fly screens that are really dirty you know
there's so much build-up of dirt on there that you can't see that there's holes in the screen anymore
you want to make sure that you're keeping your mouth shut when you're cleaning that
cleaning a screen like that because I learnt at my very first party over ten years ago
that if you are talking while you're cleaning a screen that's that dirty that
those bits of dust will roll up and they'll end up dropping into your mouth
and that's also not very pleasant so I've gone through this experience to
share this vital information with you so it doesn't happen to you.
So when I'm cleaning the screen not only do I have the the Car Mitt damp
but I know that if I want to clean the screen that and it's a security grill like this
that I want to be doing the outside first because these long shaggy
fingers Chenille Microfiber fingers they hold a fair bit more moisture than the
flat side does and so when I'm running over the screen like this over the grill
it's actually going to leave quite a few droplets of water and and I'll be able
to remove them when I come and do the inside So when I'm cleaning the outside of the grill
I'm actually going on the diagonal because all of these bits of
metal are on the diagonal and so that will give it a really great clean.
I'm actually going to just do a demo on the inside for you so that you can see
how effective this Car Mitt is. So I'm just gonna start wiping
just up and down like this. Now if you're doing your kitchen flyscreen
you may find that there's a buildup of grease that's combined with the dirt and so
it may take a couple of goes with your car Mitt before you remove all of the build-up but
I'm just going to do this small section here and we'll just see how that looks and - Ta Da there you go
that's pretty pretty cool hey now I would just with this Mitt finish wiping
this whole screen over and now I would just take it to the tap - run it under the
water - rub the Mitt against itself so that little bit of friction combined with the
water will help remove the build-up of dirt and then I can go on to the next
screen - and once I've done all the screens in a home or in my home I would
just throw the Mitt into the wash. The other great thing that you can do with
the Car Mitt is to clean your window tracks using the end of the Car Mitt.
So I recommend when you're cleaning window tracks that you've vacuumed the tracks
out first to remove the bulk of the dirt and the dead flies!
So you just go along like this the fiber will get down into your window tracks
and those parts that are hard to reach so for the very corners you may find that you need a
an Enviro Cloth and I often just use a chopstick to get the cloth right into
the corners but yeah it just does a phenomenal job.
If you've used the Norwex Car Wash Mitt successfully to clean your flyscreens
I'd love to hear about it - please comment below and let both myself and the other viewers know
how effective you found this product to be!
If you've got any questions about Norwex or any of the other products in our range,
please feel free to contact me via my website LindaPearce.com.au
or contact your Norwex Independent Sales Consultant