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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Richard iSparkle on January 15, 2020, 11:33:15 am

Title: cleaning lead stains off a window
Post by: Richard iSparkle on January 15, 2020, 11:33:15 am

looking for a cleaning agent i can use to clean some leading marks off by hand and cloth. we have a bay window with a  small flat lead roof above it.

Title: Re: cleaning lead stains off a window
Post by: NWH on January 15, 2020, 12:21:57 pm

Soap up then bronze wool them just done some myself

Title: Re: cleaning lead stains off a window
Post by: Richard iSparkle on January 15, 2020, 12:28:46 pm

Quote from: NWH on January 15, 2020, 12:21:57 pm

Soap up then bronze wool them just done some myself

thanks

Title: Re: cleaning lead stains off a window
Post by: NWH on January 15, 2020, 12:32:40 pm

The ones I did were less than a year old and they’d already run,I told the lady of the house that need to come back to seal the lead.
They all bleed eventually but not in less than a year they normally go over the lead with a sealer to stop this happening in such a short time.

Title: Re: cleaning lead stains off a window
Post by: jd services on January 16, 2020, 10:01:57 am

I researched this on a chemistry website and found cilit bang does the job as well as anything.  I did a big victorian conservatory roof with stains from the lead flashing. I used the aerosol foam and and it work perfectly.

Title: Re: cleaning lead stains off a window
Post by: Richard iSparkle on January 16, 2020, 10:36:25 am

Quote from: jd services on January 16, 2020, 10:01:57 am

I researched this on a chemistry website and found cilit bang does the job as well as anything.  I did a big victorian conservatory roof with stains from the lead flashing. I used the aerosol foam and and it work perfectly.

thanks! which cillit bang though?

Title: Re: cleaning lead stains off a window
Post by: jd services on January 16, 2020, 10:59:27 am

I think it says limescale and scum. The foam one is easier to let sit on the stains for a while.

Title: Re: cleaning lead stains off a window
Post by: NWH on January 16, 2020, 11:01:45 am

I’d be careful with any product you could end up ruining the lead

Title: Re: cleaning lead stains off a window
Post by: Small but perfectley formed on January 16, 2020, 02:38:22 pm

Depending how old the lead mark is it won't come off it is a chemical reaction.

Title: Re: cleaning lead stains off a window
Post by: harleyman on January 18, 2020, 07:16:12 am

yep that's true I've got jobs with lead stains, I tell the customer about them before I commit to  take them on  I wont even bother faffing about trying to remove them, as I see it your there to remove dirt, bird shyte  not do a full overhaul your making a rod for your own back. the more you do the more they expect the longer it takes less time for other jobs to complete  you don't get better thought of.

Title: Re: cleaning lead stains off a window
Post by: Michael Peterson on January 20, 2020, 04:11:54 pm

limescale and scum lol i remove the limescale and i am the scum