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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: glen parva on December 15, 2009, 04:35:40 pm

Title: how to clean lead marks off
Post by: glen parva on December 15, 2009, 04:35:40 pm
hi just been to look at a job there are 25 windows all with lead marks on them all the lead has been removed would they just wash off or would something eles be needed

cheers john  :)
Title: Re: how to clean lead marks off
Post by: Martin ccs on December 15, 2009, 04:38:11 pm
hard to say how easy it would come off but i would prob try a good soapy mopping and a use a wc scraper.
Title: Re: how to clean lead marks off
Post by: GWCS on December 15, 2009, 04:46:34 pm
is it actually lead marks or adhesive?
Title: Re: how to clean lead marks off
Post by: glen parva on December 15, 2009, 04:50:25 pm
is it actually lead marks or adhesive?

i think its a build up of muck and adhesive  it would not rub off with a cloth though
Title: Re: how to clean lead marks off
Post by: GWCS on December 15, 2009, 04:54:39 pm
you need an adhesive remover try along the lines of titan labs oil flo - maybe some solvent upvc cleaner, white spirits etc..

prob take a good few hours for 25 panes.
Title: Re: how to clean lead marks off
Post by: elite mike on December 15, 2009, 04:56:16 pm
hi glen

i done a 3 bed semi with the lead like that

took around half a day

i used some meths with zero grade wire wool,

in a certain light you can still see where the lead had been

i think its called photo effect
Title: Re: how to clean lead marks off
Post by: jonnyald on December 15, 2009, 05:11:56 pm
hi glen

i done a 3 bed semi with the lead like that

took around half a day

i used some meths with zero grade wire wool,

in a certain light you can still see where the lead had been

i think its called photo effect


whats photo effect?
Title: Re: how to clean lead marks off
Post by: [GQC] Tim on December 15, 2009, 05:12:34 pm
If you use meths, I would use goggles. Get some in your eyes, and it's not good.

Try some oilflo first.
Title: Re: how to clean lead marks off
Post by: john tomkins on December 15, 2009, 05:25:48 pm
If you use meths, I would use goggles. Get some in your eyes, and it's not good.

Totally OTT, I've never seen a tramp wearing goggles, and they bathe in it ;D
Title: Re: how to clean lead marks off
Post by: elite mike on December 15, 2009, 05:33:21 pm
hi glen

i done a 3 bed semi with the lead like that

took around half a day

i used some meths with zero grade wire wool,

in a certain light you can still see where the lead had been

i think its called photo effect


whats photo effect?

its where some glass, eg sealed units with a tint retain the image of the pattern

of the lead on the glass
Title: Re: how to clean lead marks off
Post by: 1wayno on December 15, 2009, 08:47:56 pm
how much u recon ur guna charge for it?
Title: Re: how to clean lead marks off
Post by: glen parva on December 15, 2009, 08:53:55 pm
i was thinking around the £75.00 mark

but still unsure how long it will take