Preparing for a feast or receiving guests is often accompanied by the question of how to clean crystal at home. Moreover, it needs to be done quickly, efficiently and with minimal time expenditures. In everyday life, crystal dishes are used infrequently, so it gradually fades, becomes covered with traces of yellowness and a dense whitish coating.
To cope with these phenomena is not so difficult as it seems, you just need to find the right tool. With the right approach, you can achieve an attractive shine and pure ringing, even from the cheapest and oldest product.
In order not to damage the whimsical subjects, it is necessary to take into account the basic rules for the care of crystal:
- The material is adversely affected by temperature changes, it becomes even more fragile from this effect.
- Regardless of the means by which it is decided to clean the crystal, the water is taken slightly warm, not higher than 35ºС.
- Ware, chandelier or vase of crystal can not be left to dry naturally, on the surface will remain stains and stains. Clean products dry with towels or napkins made of microfiber, this material does not leave villi.
Advice
To not particularly bother, the crystal can also be washed in the dishwasher. But this permission applies only to not very expensive products without a persistent plaque or yellowness. It is recommended to use the approach if you need to wash the products after a feast or wash away the fresh dirt.
Choosing the right tool based on the type of contamination
Before you wash the crystal with one of the "grandmother's" methods, it is worth considering that for this manipulation, powder formulations that scratch the surface of the glass and soap solutions( they leave matteraid).
- To wash off dust and update the crystal vase or dishes, you need to use a profile glass cleaner. We take the pelvis, better, if it is made of plastic, lined with a soft cloth, pour a concentrated solution and carefully immerse the crystal products. We leave the container for several hours. Then take a soft cloth and clean all the furrows and elements of objects. For the appearance of a beautiful shine, the crystal must be rinsed in water with the addition of vinegar, citric acid or ammonia.
- To wash the plaque, which often covers the crystal vase because of the constant action of hard water, you need to use a solution of organic acid. At home, most often used acetic, citric or oxalic acid. The selected product is diluted with water to form a solution, it should be slightly acidic. In the composition we place the dishes, we leave it for several hours. After that, we add half a glass of rice or peas( we can manage with potato peelings), cover it and start shaking it. After removing dirt, rinse the products with lukewarm water.
- The most persistent contaminants are limescale. It is attached to the crystal so tightly that during the removal process it can provoke the formation of scratches. To prevent this, you need to wash the dishes Coca-Cola or its fizzy counterparts. Just pour the drink, leave it for a few minutes and wash it off with warm water. This approach is also effective in the presence of stains from red wine.
- A vase covered with shaded greens will save soda. Pour warm water into the container and cover the soda powder at the rate of a tablespoon of the product in half a glass of liquid. We are waiting for several minutes, cover the neck and several times vigorously shake the product. After this treatment, we rinse the vase with a weak solution of vinegar.
It's hardest to cope with carved surfaces. Here all the same rules apply, just need to additionally connect the machining, during which microfiber is used.
Specificity of cleaning crystal chandeliers
To wash dirt from a crystal chandelier, you do not need to remove the product or disassemble it. To carry out manipulation is not recommended to use the listed folk remedies, it is better to purchase a profile product. It is applied abundantly on the product, and on the floor you need to lay out a few towels, which will drip excess product. After a certain time, we wipe the details of the object and wash them with clean water.
In extreme cases, a chandelier, and other crystal dishes, you can wash with ammonia. In a large basin with warm water we divorce half the glass of alcohol, mustard powder and vinegar. Aggressive and not very attractive to the appearance of the mixture is absolutely harmless to glass and is capable of eliminating pollution of any degree. It is used for soaking or wiping products with their subsequent rinsing.
