How To Clean Leaded Stained Glass Windows
Carol Price Canadian Education Centre Network - Burnaby BC Canada 2005.
How to clean leaded stained glass windows. The surface of stained glass is often filled with texture that unlike regular glass can trap and hold dirt. Mix some dish soap into the water dip the rag in and wring it out. Look carefully and you can see that the corrosion is on the edge of the soldered lead line.
Put rubbing alcohol 91 on cotton swabs. Clean the glass areas. The surface of the stained glass is not as smooth as regular window glass and can trap dirt more easily explains Steve Blyth president of the window cleaning firm JRacenstein Company.
How leaded windows are made. However at the same time you want to make sure that youre using enough pressure to actually remove any dirt and grime. Except for the smallest these are supported by metal bars or a framework called a ferramenta from the Italian for ironmongery historically made of wrought iron fixed into the.
Salt water in the air near the ocean may be a cause and there may even be some type of. To repair leadlights. The lead cames and soldered joints are all cleaned up and wiped down.
Use one for the cleaner and one for the calcium. I had an easy clean treatment applied to the windows when I bought them and wonder if the fix to remove this stain then will also affect the treatment. This article provides an introduction to the types of soiling found on the internal and external faces of stained glass when and how to clean them safely and sympathetically and the kinds of damage that can result from inappropriate cleaning.
Of course there are also more recent examples and craftspeople make a wide variety of beautiful ornaments out of leaded and stained glass. Or old toothbrushes For textured glass which is common in leadlight windows you can use an old or soft toothbrush. Since some older stained glass window patterns are held together with lead keep in mind that lead wont harm you if its just sitting there.