Advice on Lead Leaks!

[Jago]

Hi everyone

I have a new job which has a 30 panel slanting glass roof at the back of the property.

Thing is there is a lot of lead around and above glass.

Overtime the lead appears to have leaked and stained a kind of mottled haze on the glass.

What has caused this and is there anything I can use or do to improve it? (Other than wash it with pure)

Thanks

 

[spruce]

We had a similar thing with a conservatory glass roof @Jago . The lead had stained and etched into the glass and this was well out of our realm of expertise to rectify. The lead staining appeared to have build up layers of mineral staining. This customer turned out to be a one off as he wasn't impressed with our efforts.

I would have thought that in this case the cheapest and most effective solution is to replace the glass and the lead flashing.

I recommend you be upfront with the customer and advise that you will not be able to make any appreciative difference to the contamination on his windows. If its a new customer then I would offer a clean as normal and then walk away from it. The gulf between what the customer expects and what you are able to deliver is too wide.

You may even find that your customer ends up to be so dissatisfied with the result that he will refuse to pay you.

We now longer have lead water supply pipes to our homes due to the characteristics of lead contamination in our water supply. When you look at that glass you can see why.

 

[Clisty1989]

If you can reach with a ladder, you could try unger rub out. I've heard cillit bang works, bit I've never tried it so not 100% sure

 

[Jago]

We had a similar thing with a conservatory glass roof @Jago . The lead had stained and etched into the glass and this was well out of our realm of expertise to rectify. The lead staining appeared to have build up layers of mineral staining. This customer turned out to be a one off as he wasn't impressed with our efforts.
I would have thought that in this case the cheapest and most effective solution is to replace the glass and the lead flashing.

I recommend you be upfront with the customer and advise that you will not be able to make any appreciative difference to the contamination on his windows. If its a new customer then I would offer a clean as normal and then walk away from it. The gulf between what the customer expects and what you are able to deliver is too wide.

You may even find that your customer ends up to be so dissatisfied with the result that he will refuse to pay you.

We now longer have lead water supply pipes to our homes due to the characteristics of lead contamination in our water supply. When you look at that glass you can see why.

Thank you very much Spruce

I read your response on my way to the job this afternoon (not whilst driving)

Very helpful and the customer accepted the problem was there before I started.

It did look good

From a distance