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?

 

[dishman]

Are you sure it is not faux frosted? As in a very fine stick on layer with a frosted effect. Or can you feel that the glass has actually been abraded/roughened in the frosted areas?

I do not see why vinigar would react with glass, unless it was a fine layer of another material on top of the glass as I said....

 

[ABN]

It was a bog standard mid ranged pine Homebase door so assume they would use the cheapest / easiest method.

So not sure whether its faux frosted or abraded. All the frosted area feels very slightly “rough” and can’t feel a lip at the junction of the plain glass and frosted area (assume I would if it was faux frosted) so assuming it’s abraded.

Is there an easy way of telling for sure?

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.

 

[WalksWithTurkeys]

Is it this one?

http://www.homebase.co.uk/en/homeba...rative-glazed-knotty-pine---686mm-wide-893826

This is silkscreen printed which I assume to be inked. Were there care instructions with the door? I suspect you have dissolved the ink, so you really can only clean it all off.

 

[ABN]

Thanks

Yes think it is that door, just different glass pattern. Our doors are 10-15yrs old so any cleaning instructions have been long lost/forgotten.

Have found some frosted glass spray on amazon, expect its sold elsewhere as well, so will try to get the old stuff off and spray with something like that.

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

 

[foxhole]

Have you tried a clean with warm soapy water, if the cloth used was not new you may have deposited it's contents on the rough surface.

 

[ABN]

The damaged areas are where the vinegar enriched cleaner was first sprayed on and the runs that caused.

That was then wiped over the whole area as you would when cleaning. It only really shows in the areas where the cleaner was in high concentration before wiping. So don’t think it was caused by a dirty cloth.

Over the years has had many different cleaning stuff on it including white spirit after painting the doors. Really surprised that adding vinegar has had the effect.