If your favourite mirror has broken, it needs only to be thrown out. The benefit, in shops, products of the different size and configurations are offered – you can even order the necessary option under old frame. However when the glass surface loses the attractiveness, and on covering of silver alloy (amalgam) there are small scratches, it is possible to try to restore mirror and to do without the next purchase.
It is required to you
- - Means for cleaning of mirrors
- - Bulb
- - Sponge, rags, cotton wool, newspapers
- - Water
- - Ammonia solution (or gasoline and burned magnesia)
- - Chalk
- - Vinegar
- - Foil
- - Transparent adhesive tape
- - Scissors
- - Silicone sealant
- - Toothpicks
- - Wax and turpentine (as necessary)
Instruction
1. Give to mirror initial purity and transparency if it has very much become soiled and has grown dull. For this purpose it is possible to use special means for cleaning of glass surfaces and to work according to the instruction. There are also many make-shifts by means of which hostesses clean mirrors. For example, • it is necessary to cut bulb and with effort to wipe with it places on glass cloth, zasizhenny flies.· it is possible to clean dim mirror the sponge, the wetted in mix of water and ammonia solution or the purified gasoline and burned magnesia (all in equal parts). • Add to 200 g of water on the 2nd tablespoons of pounded chalk and vinegar. Carefully mix the mix which has reacted. After grout washing remove liquid from deposit and use it for cleaning of strongly polluted mirror surface. Be attentive – means should not get on amalgam or wooden frame.
2. It is possible to restore mirror with the scratched inner side by means of foil. Take for this purpose only ideally smooth leaf from new packing – even small wrinkles on patch will spoil impression of mirror renovation. You will find strip of foil of slightly bigger size, than scratch; paste it by means of transparent adhesive tape.
3. Use silicone sealant for priming of scratches on silver amalgam. It is necessary to clean carefully the field of damage by mix of water and alcohol and to wipe dry. After that begin to fill accurately cracks with silicone, working with the ground wooden sticks (it is possible to take toothpicks). After drying of means carefully remove surplus and wipe the restored mirror damp, and then with dry rags.