How to wash a crystal chandelier with pendants?

Crystal chandelier has always been a symbol of luxury, taste and refinement. She attaches festiveness and solemnity to the interior, adds artistry. Dazzling crystal shimmers under sunlight and artificial lighting. However, over time, falling dust, all this beauty fades, ceases to let light in full. Dust heats up and gives off a musty smell, and the chandelier of a beautiful interior element turns into a dangerous thing for your health. Any hostess starts to wonder: "How to wash a crystal chandelier with pendants?".

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General rules for the care of crystal

To ensure that your chandelier is pleasing to the eye and has served for a long time, follow certain rules:

• During cleaning, dust the dust with a special soft whisk.
• Clean the base of the appliance with a dry, clean cloth from plaque and dirt.
• Periodically treat the surface with special anti-static sprays. The resulting layer will repel the dust.
• If you leave for a long time and do no dry cleaning, then make a protective cocoon round the chandelier: wrap it with a clean sheet. Upon arrival, gently remove the cover, mark the dust residue with a panicle.
• Never use a vacuum cleaner for cleaning - you can damage the fragile crystal parts of the chandelier.

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Prohibitions

To properly wash a crystal chandelier with pendants, one must know not only the basic rules and recipes for washing, but also have information about what to do absolutely not worth it. Restrictions are as follows:

• To clean the crystal, do not use abrasive and aggressive detergents, soda ash and soap. Abrasives and soda scratches the surface, and after soap there is a greasy film. This leads to a loss of brilliance of the crystal products.
• You can not wash crystal in hot water, because of the high temperature, microcracks form. The result will be deplorable: a chandelier or dishes will fade, eventually cracks will lead to the disintegration of the product.

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Methods for cleaning the crystal chandelier

There are two ways to tidy up delicate splendor. Which of them to choose is the business of every mistress. Everything depends on the degree of contamination, such as the lighting decor, the availability of free time and the type of facilities at hand.

Dry cleaning method

If the chandelier is covered with a small layer of dust, this method will be more effective. Wipe all crystal parts with a dry soft cloth. You can use a special brush with soft bristles - duster, which has antistatic properties.

Act very carefully, because even touching each other, the suspension can scratch and crash.

Important! The crystal of the highest quality can only be cleaned in this way.

Wet cleaning method

To clean the crystal chandelier with pendants, follow these instructions:

1. First, disconnect the power supply from the common shield or unscrew the plugs.
2. Remove all parts of the chandelier, fold it in a plastic basin and wash with special or home remedies.

Important! Some secrets will help you to wash the crystal chandelier safely:

• Iron pelvis is better not to use, so as not to break fragile details.
• The entire process should be carried out in soft, lint-free gloves to avoid oily fingerprints.
• The water temperature should not exceed 27 degrees, otherwise the crystal will fade.

1. When you wash the suspension, rinse them in cold water with the addition of 9% vinegar. Such a trick will make the crystal incredibly shiny and radiant.
2. Washed pendants spread on a clean soft towel in a row.
3. Fixing elements and a metal basis wipe a solution of water and ammonia. Bronze is easily cleaned with a mixture of tooth powder and ammonia.
4. It is easy to handle difficult places with a toothbrush and toothpicks.
5. Spots from flies wipe with vodka. After all, wipe dry all parts.
6. Assemble the chandelier.
7. Do not turn on the light for a couple of hours, let all moisture evaporate.

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How to wash a crystal chandelier without removing it from the ceiling?

What if the chandelier does not understand and there is no way to remove it from the ceiling?- Do not worry, there is even a way out of this situation. Although the whole process will be more time-consuming, but you can proudly show your friends and mother-in-law a radiant splendor.

Important! Be prepared for painstaking work, the ladder-ladder will have to be repositioned more than once.

Method 1

How to wash a crystal chandelier with pendants without removing from the ceiling:

1. Unplug the chandelier from the power supply.
2. Prepare a solution of water and ammonia: for 1 liter of warm water, add one tablespoon of ammonia.
3. Gently rub each crystal element with a soft, clean cloth soaked in a solution.
4. We also process metal parts in this way.
5. Move around in a circle, gradually clearing the crystal chandelier from dust and dirt.
6. Then wipe dry.
   

Method 2

A special tool can be used for cleaning by weight. In this case, follow the following instructions:

1. Place newspapers on the floor under the chandelier, cover with dry rags. These preparations are needed not to spoil the floor covering.
2. Apply copiously a special spray to all parts of the chandelier.
3. Wait for the time specified in the instructions - usually it takes 5-10 minutes.

Important! The product reacts with dust and dirt, dissolves them and flows down. Do not be scared when the dirty liquid gets poured - this clever substance has done an unpleasant job for you. You will only have to wipe the chandelier dry, collect dirty newspapers and wash the floor.

After a few hours, you can turn on the light again and enjoy the iridescent reverberations of the crystal miracle.

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How to properly wash the crystal so that it shines?

You started a grand cleaning and decided to wash not only the crystal chandelier, but all the vases, glasses, wine glasses? Then for work. Armed with our advice on how to wash a crystal chandelier to shine, you can easily cope with this task:

• Prepare a solution of 1 liter of warm water, 1 tablespoon of vinegar and 0.5 tablespoon of salt. Wash the chandelier for them, wipe dry. Such a solution will help to cope even with a green bloom in the vases after the flowers.
• Decanters, wine glasses, wine glasses from the spots of juice and wine soak in a warm soda solution for a couple of hours. Then rinse in water with the addition of vinegar, be sure to wipe dry.
• If the crystal is cloudy, first soak in a dishwashing liquid, and after rinse in water with vinegar.
• With strong contaminants, a potato broth will cope. Put the crystal in a warm potato bowl for 30-40 minutes. The procedure is completed by rinsing.
• Potatoes will help in another case. Ancient crystal is used to turn yellow over time. Cut the raw potatoes and chop the product. Then rinse in a solution of blueberry. In the absence of such a weak solution of green is suitable.
• You can clean pots or pendants with potato starch. Pour it on a soft cloth, and then wipe them thoroughly.
• Your wine glasses are clean enough, but for some reason they do not shine? Do not worry: wipe them with alcohol and wipe dry with a soft flannel.
• Please note that products with gold-plated elements are washed in clean warm water with further rinsing in an acetic solution.

Important! Crystal never leave to dry like ordinary dishes. After rinsing dry with a lint-free soft cloth.

Gentle care and correct treatment will help your chandelier and crystal dishes shine, delight you for many years and create the atmosphere of a beautiful holiday. And with our advice, you can easily cope with this task.