Cleaning mirrors !!!

[Jethro_uk]

Hi all

any one got a whizzo tip for cleaning large mirrors (e.g wardrobe doors) ? I have tried vinegar, washing up liquid, milton, glass cleaner (tried that 1st actually :-)) ....

regards

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

Chalk board duster and then a wipe with a dustfree cloth. :-)

ahem! I hear they are going missing in schools.

-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

[david lang]

IME it's not so much what chemical you use to clean them as the absorbency of the wiper material.

Kitchen roll works a treat - the objective is to use something that absorbs the cleaner before it dries on the mirror surface.

Dave

[purple pete]

I use Mr Muscle window cleaner and kitchen towel

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

Do wear a vest as well. ;-)

-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

[Dave Liquorice]

Haven't been in school for a while have you. The only chalk in our local primary is in the art box. All active white boards and computer projectors now.

As for cleaning mirrors, elbow grease. IMHO you can't do it properly in one pass, clean with what ever gets the muck off, then clean the cleaner off, then polish. Kitchen roll is good for the polishing, just ever so slighly damp, start dry it'll pick up more than enough moisture from the glass.

[Andy Dingley]

Kitchen roll isn't dust free. Blue paper garage roll is better. If you're a mirror salesman, you start to notice this. Newsprint (no coloured ink) is great for _cleaning_ them, but if you want to leave them spotless, you need something really dust free.

Either meths or about 25% isopropanol works as a cleaner.

[biff]

[biff]

Meths really is an amazingly good solvent - and cheap. I use a bit of kitchen roll soaked in meths to clean glass in the windows I make.

[Brian Sharrock]

During recruit-training in the RAF we cleaned a lot of glass ... hut's windows and mirrors. What worked ... or stopped the DI screaming at us ... was ... newspaper! Scrunch newspaper into balls and, vigorously, polish off the water-vinegar cleaning solution. Discard used paper and scrunch up another pair of pages as necessary. IMHO, broadsheets work best ... :). One theory advanced was that the black newsprint was actually deposited into microscopic scratches/imperfections on the glass surface and produced a more perfect (shiny) surface.

[Stuart Noble]

Try fine wire wool. No liquid required.

[Owain]

Tippex(tm) thinners

Owain

[Bob Martin]

Shaving foam and a towel works great!

[Kalico]

On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 07:38:42 GMT, "Brian Sharrock" wrote: [snip]

I'll second that. Works a treat but be careful of rubbing any surrounding edges with it as it can mark light coloured surfaces.

I use it all the time and it can be better than kitchen paper towels are they tend to disintegrate and be dusty.

Rob

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