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Removing paint from glass

My neighbour recently had the back of her house painted and the builder has managed to pebble-dash all 3 of my ground floor windows with specks of yellow paint. Does anyone have any idea how to get this off, without destroying the glass ? There is no point in me trying to get her to pay for the repair, as she refused to even admit her builder had caused it. We do not see eye to eye. Thank-you

Silver_Star9 Wed 14/05/08 09:59

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4getmenot
Wed 14/05/08
10:06

http://www.freewindowcleaningtips.com/paintrem oval.htm

Loads of other solutions if you put getting paint off glass in google. xx

tezestwing
Wed 14/05/08
10:27

Hi Silver you can get razor blade type holder scrapers from paint or B&Q outlet and just scrape it off could be a bit long winded but it should work try a a small area first but it shouldn't mark the glass HTH Tez

4getmenot
Wed 14/05/08
10:28

Nooooooooo, above link says dont use them as they scratch

tezestwing
Wed 14/05/08
10:28

sorry link beat me to it Tez

tezestwing
Wed 14/05/08
10:31

read on a bit apply wash liquid Tez

Tetjam
Wed 14/05/08
15:13

Take her to ******* court. What a bitch.

Silver_Star9
Wed 14/05/08
17:10

Question Author

Hi All,

What a fantastic response - thank-you all so much. I will follow all the good advice at the week-end and fingers crossed it will come off. I wish I could find a way to convince her to take responsibility for this, but she will not. All it would have taken to avoid this, was some warning, some newspaper and blue-tac and my windows would have been protected. Sadly she is not the type to ever consider her neighbours.

Thanks so much to you all and to your wonderful community.

karelat1
Thurs 15/05/08
01:49

hi,

to answer your question, this will work.

you can get specialist glass scrapers that wont scratch glass; they are called HALOGEN HOB glass scrapers (designed for halogen hob tops - but they are fine on windows too), any others may scratch the glass.

use this and a bit of WD40 on the window. and it will work a dream. you will have to clean the windows after though, as WD40 is lubricant based.

hope this helps :)

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