Cleaning Glass

[Rick Hughes]

I recently bought a large 2nd hand greenhouse ...and after good advice here got all the glass home without a single breakage. Green house has now been erected ..... but before I refit all the glass, (>

100 panes) thinking about best way to clean it. As it's been in a greenhouse for a few years it's green, cruddy and probably brittle. It did get a wash down as each pane was taken out .... but certainly not clear glass at present.

Suggestions .... ?

I have a pressure washer ... but that may be a tad risky ?

Hot water & Jeyes fluid ?

Wife, bucket & sponge ?

[Jonathan Ward]

Armillotox

Jonathan

[Nick Leverton]

Angle grind..... oh. oh well, there are still 99 more panes ...

Nick

[The Natural Philosopher]

pressure washer.

[tim....]

A lot of stuff will come off better with some brand of solvent, simple white spirit is usually strong enough.

tim

[Tabby]

Hair not really abrasive enough, tongue clogs too quickly.

It should come off easily enough if you wet it with a little detergent in water & let it soak a couple of minutes before brushing off.

NT

[Matty F]

Cerium Oxide on a wet rag.

[dennis]

If he puts clean glass in now he will need to shade it when the sun is out. It might be easier to leave it dirty until Oct/Nov. ;-)

[stuart noble]

Or white spirit plus whiting (aka the original pink Windolene, hopefully still sold by a few backstreet ironmongers). Can't beat it IMO

[Matty F]

It would be easier to clean the glass now before it's put on the glasshouse. Otherwise we'll be asked how to climb around on top of a glasshouse with a bucket and cloth.

[hugh]

In message , Rick Hughes writes

Autoglym glass cleaner for cars. Gets all the crud off the windscreen.

[Terry Casey]

Worthwhile looking at supermarket own brands - that's how I got my last couple of bottles of traditional 'Windolene'.

I think it's something simple like a mixture of white spirit and jewelers rouge, so you could mix your own if you can find the rouge, perhaps ...?

[Frank Erskine]

Yesterday I bought a bottle of "original cream" Windolene from Wilkinsons. I believe it's discontinued now, so buy up stocks while you can :-)

According to the online safety data sheet, it contains kaolin.