Scratched Glazing

[torn]

Can anyone offer any advice on how to remove scratches in glazing? (caused by painters not taking care when rubbing down the timber windowframes with glass paper). Some are quite deep, you can feel the scratches with your finger nail !

I have heard that 'Jewellers Rouge' can remove scratches, this is a powder you mix into a paste & try to polish out the scratches.

Any other methods apart from replacing the glazing.

thanks

 

[Richard C]

Jewellers rouge will only remove very light scratching, if you can feel scratches with your finger nail there is nothing that will remove it. It’s going to be pretty much a case of live with it, get new glazing; perhaps you can get the stupid idiot painters to pay for it, they obviously don’t have a clue!

 

[torn]

Thanks for that Richard.

You have confirmed what I was thinking.

Unfortunatly the painters deny scratching the glass & are blaming who ever cleaned the glass. Its all getting rather nasty.

 

[Richard C]

They are just being prats & trying to bully you, hoping this will make you go away, are they from a "reputable" (supposedly) company or just chancers you met in the pub looking to make some money?

Ask them to explain what they think you may have cleaned the windows with that would have scratched them so badly in such a small area, why the scratches are restricted to the immediate area around the frame (usually within 20mm), why they are straight & parallel with the frame & not all over the glass; assuming this is the case! Atmospheric dust will scratch glass during general cleaning over time, more so if they are not properly washed before a squeegee or shammy is used but it will take many years & the scratches will be in the form of random swirl marks rather than straight lines. Such scratches will not match or be as deep as the scratch pattern cause by careless use of abrasive paper when decorating; the material used on sandpaper or wet/dry paper is far more abrasive than general dust.