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Often after a new building has been constructed, the builders employ cleaners to tidy up the building so it is clean for the hand over. Sometimes these cleaners accidentally miss parts of windows that are left with all kinds of stuff on them, blocking sunlight and your view!

You can often find a window in any home that has a window manufacturers sticker, silicon, paint, render or white marker on it. I am going to teach your how to remove this yourself, you will need these items before we begin.

• Window Washer (sometimes called a scrubber)
• A squeegee – Low grade steel wool (I recommend 00 Grade)
• A 1 inch scraper blade with a new blade in it.
• Window cleaning bucket
• Cleaning solution (dish washing liquid works well).

Before you begin cleaning the glass, mix your solution into your bucket. 1 part cleaning solution to 10 parts water provides a good quality cleaning formula. If there is any large pieces of loose dirt on the glass, knock them off with your hand so they are not dragged across the glass and do not potentially scratch your new window.

Once you are prepared for cleaning, submerge your window washer in the water until its soaking wet. Apply the washer to the entire window, making sure that the whole pane of glass is wet. Then using your steel wool, scrub the areas of the glass with the debris on them in one direction only, making sure to remove as much of it as you can.

Steel wool should remove the majority of stuff on the glass that isn’t rigidly stuck to the glass. It won’t remove large stickers very well or big pieces of concrete, but it will loosen up the edges. If the glass still has something on it, then take your scraper blade and scrape the object of the glass using one direction scrape patterns. If the blade picks up any debris, it is very important that you clean the blade before you continue scraping. If you do not, the debris will continually be dragged back across the glass and may scratch your new window. Sometimes if you are trying to remove a large sticker, the blade will be able to peel up one corner of the sticker allowing you to peel it off the glass.