I remember when my father has his windows cleaned earlier this year and the guy had to go buy oven cleaner, what all is oven cleaner good for and is it safe for wood and other frames?
It was probably for the video near the stove or the bbq. Its safe for frames but its bad for you. any degreaser will work as well and smell much better
It will compromise the IG seal on the windows.
Waste of time. I had a guy come help me a few years back from another company on a hw job. He ranted and raved how well oven cleaner would work. I tried it and it did work, but no were near as good as a powder. Now the powered are good, but last year we bought some one restore. My employees came back ranting and raving about how amazing it is. Spray on, wipe off, spots gone. That easy. But the one did say she would have liked to had a mask as the smell was a little rough for her. Also she got some on her pants, bleached the hell out of them.
Sometimes its better to buy the product that is designed to do what you are looking to do. 1 gallon of oven cleaner on google is $40 to $60 bucks. 1 gallon of one restore $30 and change, diluted 2:1 your getting 2 gallons. We worked the whole year with one gallon. The cost is nothing compared to the customers happiness.
I totally agree ray. It’s interesting to see how people use different products to clean glass but I would rather use a PROFESSIONAL window cleaners application. I’ll leave the oven cleaner for ovens 
Folks would use oven cleaner for aluminum screen burn. As Tony posted, it’s bad for IGU seals and will stain other surfaces.
Back in the day oven cleaner was the bomb! A trade secret only window cleaners knew about. Well times have changed. Oven cleaner is obsolete. haha
Alright, whats the other product your talking about that you can get 2 gallons out of? And IGU seals?
Is there a problem you’re trying to solve?
BTW, IGU = Insulated Glass Unit (dual-pane window.)
I was going to say something along those lines… “modern technology,” huh?
Is “One Restore” better than “Safe Restore”? I did not find safe restore to be stronger then oven cleaner at all.
Oven cleaner is a dangerous chemical however. It is lye. What chemical is as strong?
One restore is safe restore. They changed the name. As far as the chemical makeup of the product? Could not tell you. I dont read that much into them.
Thanks. I don’t believe Safe Restore is as strong as oven cleaner but oven cleaner is a dangerous chemical.
Those were the days… Mixing TSP into my bucket and using Lye on windows (over cleaners active ingredient used to be lye) actually I never did use oven cleaner, it wasn’t strong enough we would get some real cleaning products from the Janitorial Supply I think it was marketed as a Range Hood Cleaner. almost as strong as Lye, but in a gel form so it would stick to the surface.
Thanks for the tip. Oven cleaner is mild lye. A strong solution of lye can eat your hand off in short order.
I think Eacochem has the msds on their website for all their chems. Mostly Hydrochloric acid.
Hydrocloric is a strong acid. Lye is a strong base, sodium hydroxide. Either one will do damage if you are not
protected.
Absolutely, always use protection when dealing with strong chemicals.
I should have said that the over cleaners I used back then were Lye Based so that it wouldn’t sound like I meant that “if it is an oven cleaner it has to be Lye based”
Just for reference you are right, I was referring to Sodium Hydroxide, but Potassium Hydroxide is also called Lye and is what they burned the hardwood forests of North Eastern North America to get in the 17th and 18th centuries. Potassium Hydroxide if you don’t salt it makes a soft/ liquid soap.
Michael Kelly
The guy who trained me used oven cleaner… I always thought it was weird, but it did work a little bit. I was so happy when I broke away I could buy real tools and chemicals that worked a lot better.
With regard to softening paint, what works better? I tried Safe Restore and it didn’t work.
