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Glass damaged by Sparks? Angle Grinder Debris on Glass?
Professional Weld & Grinder Spatter Removal Service, let us restore your glass
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You or someone on your team, at the project has been cutting metal, and the sparks have flown off and hit the glass within close proximity.
What are the options to you, where do you go? Here is one option – get one of our technicians in to remove the damage.
We offer a professional service to remove the metal particles and then take away the left marks on the glass (glass polishing as it is sometimes referred too); this service is an alternative solution to glass replacement.
The amount of spatter leaving spots, slag, pits or sparks in the glass can be reduced by changing techniques and equipment, but, regrettably, there are still those occasions where the particles cause damage to the surface, such as glass, which is within close proximity.
Searching the internet, or speaking with others, may bring up several options for removing spatter from the glass, from soaking the glass in acetone, using wax remover, scrubbing the particles with a brush, and of course our service – polishing the glass.
We highly recommend that if you have weld or grinder spatter/splatter on your glass, that you complete the first stage of our process - chemically cleaning the glass, as soon as possible.
This will stop the metal oxidising/rusting, which leads on to rust marks seeping down the glass and etching into it over time, due to cleaning and weathering.
We generally attend site and undertake the removal as a complete two-stage process, but we can offer the initial stage in our process as a standalone option.
How to Remove Spatter/Splatter from Glass
We use a two-stage process to remove weld and grinder spatter/splatter to achieve clear glass.
The first stage involves the removal of all the metal particles embedded in the glass and then chemically cleaning the damaged area to remove any remaining metal oxides, burn marks, slag or stains. This leaves the glass with small white frosted dots where the hot metal has burnt into the surface.
The second stage is to remove these frosted dots by abraiding the surface of glass to the bottom of the dots and then polishing clear with a compound, to leave the result of clear glass.
Our Glass Polishing process
So Why Get Chicago Glass in?
We can:
- offer you free impartial advice
- provide you with a free, no obligation quotation
- attend at a time that suits you; maybe when you are on-site, or when you are closed to avoid any disruption to your business
- attend out of working hours, evenings, early mornings or weekends
- send you an individual technician, or a team of technicians if you have multiple spatter across multiple locations
- to be on-site for you, within 48 hours (that is our aim)
- come to site, and remove the damage with the glass in-situ
- repair the glass, saving it from heading to the landfill
- offer what we feel is a fair price for the service we offer
It will be helpful to know the proximity of the person working to the glass, the size of area that has been affected, and if the dots are clustered or are sparser across the panel.
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We hold CHAS Elite, along with being members of the Glass and Glazing Federation (GGF).
