Removing Danish oil from window glass

[joechip]

Hi all, I am wondering if there is anything I can use to soften it to get it off the glass or am I stuck with it now. it's quite hard on the glass.

Our carpenter gave the oak windows a coat a couple of months back and it seems like he missed in quite a few places and hit the glass. :roll:

For anyone that remembers the thread on my cottage renervation back last autumn I will have updates and photo's soon. A lot has gone on since then and i've spent most of the winter in the caravan in the garden. Not an experience I want to repeat in a hurry I might add.

We have ended up pretty much gutting the main part of the cottage due to most of it being beyond repair. After taking down a sagging ceiling we discovered the joists from the floor above were just about hanging inside their slots in a rather rotten central beam. Quite scary when you see what you had put down to 'character' only a few weeks before with 'wonky floors'. We can now actually walk into the corners of the upstairs rooms withouth wondering if you are about to make an unscheduled appearance downstairs.

Only a week or so before the plastering team arrive to lime plaster the upstairs! :mrgreen:


Project thread (missing pictures will be back soon)
http://www.periodproperty.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8571

 

[biffvernon]

Alchohol. Then scrape with a sharp blade. I find a very sharp chisel is useful as the handle is in the right orientation to the blade whereas a craft knife is the wrong way round.

If it doesn't work just drink the alchohol to make the rest of the view look blurry to match.

 

[Lime]

If the glass is flat a stanley blade held in the hand (with tape over the back edge of blade to prevent cuts) can be used.
(I would not soften it with alcohol first)
Work towards the edge of the glass.

 

[Schoolmarm]

I would buy a cheap black plastic blade holder and blade thing that is commonly sold for cleaning the glass top of oven hobs. It puts a stanley blade in the right direction. Plus you can get the blade nearly parallel to the glass.

 

[Carol]

You can get paint scrapers which are basically Stanley knife blade holders which for clumsy folk like me are much less lethal than Lime's suggestion ( but he can probably do it that way!)

(See schoolmarm's above! Us womenfolk obviously think the same way, perhaps it is having to do those educational Risk Assessments!)

 

[Cloudscape]

I've been cleaning the odd splodge of linseed oil off my windows. A blade does some of the work. Then I use small pads of very fine wire wool and apply fingertip pressure. It's very effective. I've done it with Danish oil, paint, glue and unidentified old gunk in the past. Just be sure to clear all the dust and wire wool fragments away afterwards