How to Clean Knurled Handles: A Complete Guide

Knurled handles have a textured structure, which helps grip handles and avoid slipping your hand. These handles have angles and crossed structures, which enhance the luxury look of your home's interior.

With time, as these door handles have textured designs, it is more likely that they will be filled with dirt, sweat, and oil residues. Due to this, it may cause problems with proper gripping, and their look will be destroyed. To avoid this problem, you must know how to clean knurled handles and their regular maintenance procedure.

This guide will provide you with a detailed guide about cleaning knurled handles.

Importance Of Cleaning Knurled Handles

As you know, knurled handles have a textured structure, which has small pits that will be filled with dust, stains, and sweat over time. Sweat can cause the rusting of these handles, so it is important to clean them to have a clean look and avoid slipping off your hand from the handles due to dust on the handle.

If these door handles are not cleaned for a longer time, then dirt deposited in the pits of the handles and sweat can cause the permanent rusting of the door handles, which may destroy the whole outlook of your door, and you have to change the whole handle which is a costly process. To avoid this, clean the knurled door handles regularly.

Material Required For Cleaning

For cleaning knurled handles, you will need the following material:

• Toothbrush
• Warm Water
• Mild Soap
• Microfibre Cloth
• Gloves

Steps Of Cleaning Knurled Door Handles

Following are the detailed steps for cleaning the knurled door handles deeply.

1- Examining The Door Handle

When you start the cleaning process, first of all, examine the knurled handle carefully so you will know that it just needs surface cleaning or if there is any rust or stains that cannot be removed from simple cleaning. This examination will help you in selecting the material required for cleaning.

2-Cleaning Dust

After examining the door handle, you can easily estimate that you have to clean the dust on the surface before doing any deep cleaning process. This will include:

• Use a toothbrush or any soft brush to clean the surface of the dirt from the handles.
• You can rotate the brush in a circular motion to clean the dust stuck into the pits of handles.
• After this, use a microfiber cloth to remove all the dust from the surface.
• This procedure will help you deep clean these handles.

3-Prepare Soap and Water Solution

For this solution preparation, you just need a bowl of warm water and a small amount of mild soap. This solution will help in removing any stains on knurled handles. The soap should be mild. Otherwise, it can damage the surface of the handles.

4-Deep Cleaning The Handle

To deep clean the knurled door handles, follow the following steps:

• Take a toothbrush and dip it into the soap solution.
• Now gently scrub the knurled handles by focusing on the small crossed portions.
• If there are any tough stains, apply more pressure on that area.
• Do not use steel wool because it can scratch the surface of the handles.

5-Washing With Water

Washing the door handles with water is essential because it will remove all the remaining waste from the surface.

• After cleaning with the toothbrush, wash it with the water.
• Wipe it with the microfibre cloth and completely dry it.
• If you do not completely dry the handles, it may cause rusting.

• After a few minutes, use a toothbrush and rotate gently on the area. It will take some time.
• After this, remove the rust spray from the surface handles with the help of a microfibre cloth.
• Now, examine this area to find out if the rust is completely removed.
• If rust is still present, then repeat this process once again.

6- Final Wiping

Most people think this is an extra step, but according to us this step will help your door handles last longer and have a cleaner look.

• After this whole process of cleaning, once again, wipe the surface with the dry microfiber cloth.
• This final wiping will help to remove any moisture from the surface of the handle. Now, your door handle is neat and clean. 

Maintenance Tips For The Knurled Door Handles

To keep your knurled door handles neat and clean for a longer time, you have to do the following tips:

• Regularly clean the door handles with the wet microfiber cloth.
• Keep these door handles dry after each light cleaning.
• Try to wipe it with a dry microfiber cloth after every use or once a day.
• Regularly inspect for rust. If you inspect the rust at an early stage, then you can easily clean it.
• Protect the door handles from the sweat and water.

Conclusion

It is concluded from the above article that cleaning knurled door handles is the easiest method, and you can do it easily at home. The cleaning of these handles improves their look and also increases their lifetime.