Removing silicone from glass

[geraldthehamster]

Does anyone have any tips, please, for removing dried smears of neutral cure, low modulus silicone, from window glass?

Thanks
Richard

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Stanley blade

 

[crank39]

New stanley blade and glass cleaner or similar as lube

 

[Tigercubrider]

wd 40 as lube and a window paint scraper

 

[geraldthehamster]

Thanks chaps. It's mostly smears too fine to scrape with a blade. What's sort of working so far is lifting it off with dry kitchen scrubby pads, and kitchen roll, helped on with White Spirit when necessary. I'm going to be at this for a while, though

 

[Tigercubrider]

Make sure that you don't scratch the glass
It's easier than you think

 

[crank39]

Thanks chaps. It's mostly smears too fine to scrape with a blade. What's sort of working so far is lifting it off with dry kitchen scrubby pads, and kitchen roll, helped on with White Spirit when necessary. I'm going to be at this for a while, though

Are we talking roof glass or windows?

 

[geraldthehamster]

Are we talking roof glass or windows?

Windows. Quite big ones I fixed them into timber frames with Silirub-2; thought I'd made a good job of not getting it all over the glass, but have quite a lot of fine smears.

 

[Nige F]

Silicone disolving remover ? from screwfix for under £5. Tried it once on a bead - not brilliant BUT it'll be good for those fine smears.

 

[geraldthehamster]

Silicone disolving remover ? from screwfix for under £5. Tried it once on a bead - not brilliant BUT it'll be good for those fine smears.

Thanks. I'll try that, as I have to go to Screwfix to replace my compound sliding mitre saw that crashed into the ground when the garage door blew onto the table :-/