Care of PVC windows (plastic windows)

Buying plastic windows for yourself, you must first of all consider that if they are properly followed, they will serve exceptionally long. Some of our citizens still believe that once they install PVC windows, you can do only one thing - wash them, and nothing more.

But, in fact, the situation is somewhat more complicated: for example, it was necessary to look after wooden windows for every year in the form of chipping and painting with varnish, then taking care of plastic windows requires a different approach, you need to start doing everything step by step.

First you need to start with the glass. Windows that have PVC profiles can be washed with any detergent that our chemical industry produces. Special sprays are sold, which must be applied to the total area of fiberglass windows and then carefully wiped with a dry, soft cloth.

But when it comes time to wash the frames of fiberglass windows or, more correctly, profiles, caution is needed here. It is strictly forbidden to wash the profiles with any cleaning agents that have gasoline or acetone in their composition. If you mistakenly use them, you can irretrievably corrupt profiles. To achieve perfect cleanliness, it is better to use special cleaners, which are made on the basis of ethyl alcohol. In this case, you can already firmly be sure that small degrees of ethyl alcohol will not cause damage to the plastic surface of the profiles.

The same liquid can be laundered and drainage holes profiles. It will be useful to carry out even in frosty weather, since the non-freezing liquid will not allow ice to form, capable of breaking the fragile internal parts of the plastic parts. If you regularly do not wash the drainage channels in plastic windows, the condensate forming due to the difference in temperatures inside the house and outside, can turn into ice. And the ice, expanding, just breaks everything from within and, thereby, the integrity of the plastic windows is broken.

But plastic windows differ from wooden ones in that they have either rubber or silicone gaskets. That they do not become rigid, they need to be lubricated regularly. If the windows are rubber seals, you can use ordinary Vaseline, which must be applied a thin layer and then wipe off excess. But when there are expensive silicone seals on plastic windows, in this case you should buy only such mastics that are made on a silicone basis.

But where without the accessories? In the accessories of plastic windows it is customary to include locks, swivel mechanisms, handles, hinges. To ensure that the fittings can serve as long as possible, it should be periodically lubricated. A few drops of engine oil in any of the above mechanisms and then you can assume that the initial prevention of friction parts was successful.

Plastic windows have recently ceased to be a luxury item. They became the same everyday details as wooden windows. And if you carefully look after them, as it was written above, the period of their exploitation will increase many times.