窓ガラス拭き Cleaning Up the Window Glasses

先日来窓ガラスを順に拭いていますが、あまりの数の多さに作業がはかどっていません

日本の家屋やビルの窓はアルミサッシを使った引き違い戸がほとんどですが、これだと窓を開けても窓の面積の半分しか開きません

しかしソロモンの家の窓はほとんどがルーバー方式で、開けば窓の面積全部がオープンになりますので風通しは大変よく、南国の生活の知恵から生まれた工夫です

問題は手入れですが、各家庭には普段家で過ごす娘や主婦などがいて、その人たちがこまめに拭いて手入れをしています

普通外国人はメイドを雇って家の掃除や洗濯を任せますが、私の場合には経済な余裕もありませんので、入居当初に電気掃除機を購入してメイドを雇っていません

大家さんが雇ってくれたガーデンキーパーが週に2回庭の掃除と草むしりなどをしてくれますが、家の中には入ってほしくないので、庭だけにとどめています

写真で窓拭きをする前と後の違いがわかりますでしょうか

拭いた場所はあたりが明るくなったような気がします

しかしこのガラスが窓1か所あたり4枚から8枚で、全部で26か所あり、その合計は約300枚になります

これを12月の初旬から順に拭き始めましたが、今日はすべてを終わる予定です

Before                                                                       After

 

Since beginning of this month I had been wiping the window glasses of my house but they are plenty number of glasses and it is not finished yet.

The windows of Japanese houses and buildings are almost the slide type with the aluminium sash and in this case when opening the window the half of the window still closed and not able to be full opened.

Windows of Solomon Islands buildings are almost louver type that could be fully opened which can get good breeze.

It is the sense of the South Pacific life.

The problem is the maintenance and general Solomon home there are several persons who are staying at home like the daughters and wife and they will clean it up every day.

Usually the resident foreigners employ the maid and they are doing the house cleaning and washing.

However in my case I bought a vacuum cleaner instead of employing the maid by the economical reason.

Only I ask to the garden keeper who is employed by the landlord to clean up only outside of the house because I don’t like to accept to enter the room.

Is it be recognized the difference between before and after cleaning on the pictures?

After wiping I feel it becomes little lighter around there than before.

However there are 4 to 8 glasses per a window and there are 26 windows and total of the glasses are about 300.

I started to clean since beginning of this month and I will accomplish all within today.