If glass corrosion can not take place in a dynamic environment, and only takes place in the IGU and the following methods can not remove “hard water” stains on side one (the outside facing pane with the hard water spots) such as:
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[]Glass Renew System
[]OneRestore
[]pH Neutralizers
[]Pastes
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If non of the above do NOT even make a dent then what exactly has happened to the glass if its not corrosion?
Thank you in advance. Have a productive week everyone.
My experience with “Get The Fog Out” or removing fog and moisture from IGU units is this. After two years (In this area) of an IGU being failed you are going to have permanent staining and or silica haze where the glass has started to erode from the interior of the glass and onto side 2 or 3 of the glass inside the IGU. The only fix at that point in a brick.
In colder climates like Canada you may get a 4 year time period before you need the brick to repair the unit.
Sorry Randy, the question was about hard water stains on the outside. Such as if a sprinkler hit the glass for 30 years and nothing is getting the stains off.
Sorry, but thats not true. A scratch removal machine was used on the site in question already, of course it will get it off eventually but it won’t look right. Way to far gone.
I just need to know how the process works (how the staining gets so bad like that). I’ve found some good reading on Wikipedia and some glass restoration sites but it just don’t seem to apply to this type of stain at all.
Anybody? Any thoughts?
Anyone at all? Is the way its worded hard to understand?
Thanks, that was a good article, however it appears the writer may have the same problem I do. The paragraph where I should have gotton my answer was here where it says this:
“Whenever foreign materials are introduced to the glass such as hard water (etc…) a reaction occurs known as mineral deposits.”
Huh? Thats not a reaction. This is what I was looking for. Because if its not corrosion, what is the description of that “reaction”? This is the answer I’m looking for.
Thank you again though. That really was a good article.
A scratch removal machine was used. No I don’t believe it was the glass renew machine. If that offended you my apologies. Just looking for an answer if anyone has one. Didn’t want to get into the differences of the different machines or imply that Cole’s system don’t work, on the contrary, he’s a good man and so is his product.
I didn’t want to find out what will take off the staining, I wanted to find out what the process is called if its not corrosion that takes place on the outside pane when chemical or other means will not get the staining out. There must be a reason why acids wont work. There must be a reason why the etching gets so deep that a machine won’t be able to get it out.
I am not sure as to the scientific theory why this type of staining happens, but it is to my knowledge that the glass renu will work just fine. Glass Renu is proven to get the deepest of scratches out. Just my .02.
Silicate staining and deeper etching, is tough to remove. Pool water staining…causing river bedding on the exterior…looks like drips of water but the stain is clear…is an etch where the glass surface is now uneven. Resurfacing works. Same as silicate staining…once you get enough glass stock removed…and your surface is evened up…problem solved. Full resurfacing takes time to do it completely correct.
