how to clean cloth blinds

westend wrote:

NYCGirl wrote:
As a test, soak a slat or 2 in cold to lukewarm water with powdered bleach and ammonia added

Do you ever see a chemical reaction when you do this?

I've noted a chemical reaction in the sense that the 2 products,oxygen bleach and ammonia, deodorize + bleach nicely BUT not the noxious and quite possibly fatal gas one gets when mixing chlorine bleach w/ ammonia(DON'T DO IT!!!); the 2 bleaches have different chemical compositions:).

Oh and I learned that the gas made by combining Clorox and ammonia is opaque white courtesy of one of my sons.
Sooo many reasons to wonder how he survived being a teenager and and why me too:h.