Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: mike richardson on December 21, 2010, 05:04:14 pm
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1 of my employees allegedly SCRATCHED THE GLASS on a customers conservatrory windows yesterday!! does anybody know if its possable to polish the scratches out.?? he was using a pole but he said as he was cleaning it it was freezing on so i presume it was ice scratchin the glass
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ask a glazier if you know any
they will know for sure
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Seems doubtful to me that ice would scratch glass.
The most common causes of scratches are:
Grit.
Metal instrument.
And yes scratches can be polished out, provided that a) its not very deep and b) it's not toughened glass.
http://www.rejel.com/category/52.aspx
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It depends how deep the scratch is. I have had the same complaint a few weeks ago and have bought a kit of the net {cerium oxide/drill bit and pads}. My plan was to try it on a peice of glass at home and see what happens. I decided to give it a go and if no joy, replace the pane. Will try it over the next wek or so and see what happens.
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1 of my employees allegedly SCRATCHED THE GLASS on a customers conservatrory windows yesterday!! does anybody know if its possable to polish the scratches out.?? he was using a pole but he said as he was cleaning it it was freezing on so i presume it was ice scratchin the glass
You say allegedly. You must go and have a look, before you promise anything tio the custie. Ice alone would not scratch glass. It may just be a mark that will buff off, but from the inside looks like a scratch. I hope that your employee realised to stop cleaning as soon as he saw that it was freezing up! It may have been an almost invisible hairline crack that with water getting into it and then freezing has expanded it!
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thanks let know how it goes, i honestly think the employee was using the edge of his brush to remove the ice and thats how he scrctched the glass. but he swears he didnt, lol .,ye right .
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thanks let know how it goes, i honestly think the employee was using the edge of his brush to remove the ice and thats how he scrctched the glass. but he swears he didnt, lol .,ye right .
Seriously I wouldn't let this one clean unsupervised in this weather then.......trying to remove ice of the window ??? ??? ???
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similar thing happened to me and a winow fitter i know gave mw some jewelers rouge, its a powder to mix in to a paste . worked real good, customer happy afterwards. its cheap to buy on ebay
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Hi,There are several options!Glass Scratch Repair kits,
You can use with MI4 Thread Polisher,that is a rotary machine you can get from Machine Mart,internet or depending on how deep, Band Q in the trade section sell
small scratch repair kit you can use on a normal drill!About 20pounds cheapest option.