Vinegar Damaged Glass

ABN

Got some internal doors with glass panels that have a frosted finish.

Cleaned them today with a vinegar solution which seems to have damaged the coating and they look awful. There is no beading, seems the doors are built around the glass, so it can’t be taken out and replaced.

Anyway to repair the damage or at least make them look better?

vaio

I'd be surprise if the "damage" was real, tried cleaning it with pure water?

ABN

Have tried many things to wash it off so yes it would appear to be damaged.

I can see where the solution was sprayed on and then ran down the glass. Those areas that show the damage. Where it was then wiped over, as you would while doing the cleaning, doesn’t seem to show any damage.

P.S It’s only the frosted area that has been effected. The plain glass area between the frosting and the “painted” pattern where the cleaning solution ran down is fine.

DirectDebacle

Frosted glass is produced by either sandblasting or etching with acid. It would take something far more aggressive than vinegar to damage it. Most likely it is not frosted glass but something sprayed on to plain glass to imitate frosted. There are products available to imitate frosting on glass. Look here.

ABN

Thanks.

What you say makes sense. Will have to try to remove the frosting and spray with that stuff.

Not sure how best to make a template to mask off the areas we don’t want frosted though.

Doozergirl

ABN wrote: »

Thanks.

What you say makes sense. Will have to try to remove the frosting and spray with that stuff.

Not sure how best to make a template to mask off the areas we don’t want frosted though.

Newspaper and masking tape.

ABN

Doozergirl wrote: »

Newspaper and masking tape.

If only life were that simple.

The glass has a painted design on it with a gap of unfrosted glass. Its that which needs it be masked off.

DirectDebacle

If you can't mask it and agreed it will be difficult, consider cleaning everything off the glass and start afresh. There are a wide choice of stencils available so do your own frosted design.

roswell

probably a film or a spray just scrape it all off and choose a new design

lindens

if you take a panel that is undamaged and tape a plain piece of white paper to it does the design show through? if not tracing paper. then copy the design, cut it out as a stencil/template and re-frost the glass