[Jack Wallace]

Got a call last night from a long standing customer to say her windows were c**p.
Now I have to say I was intrigued as its very rare these days that I get a complaint, I called the lad who did the job, he said "the windows are new and he was not surprised to hear the did not dry well" he said there was something on the glass that would not shift but he did not know what it was.

I went to look today and could see the problem as I was driving up to the house and knew immediately what the problem was. The Gasket had so much oil on; it had leached over the glass and left the windows looking opaque. I have had this before but never as bad as this.

I ended up using a 2lt sprayer full of water with loads of fairy in to try and break down the grease. A good spray, leave to soak for 5 mins then wfp and loads of water to rinse.
It took 4 cleans and a whole bottle of fairy before it finally came anything like clean.
Not sure who the window manufactures are but will find out for future reference.
What makes it worse is I was meant to be playing golf this afternoon. 

[Daniel Watson]

pardon my newbie ish question but..

Gasket?

[jonnyald]

i came across new windows with LOW E  written in the corner. these also had some kind of silicone grease oozing from where the seals fit and were a booger to clean (trad) .  i went through 1 scrim per window as this silicone grease transfered window to window very easily.  i clean these every few weeks now and never detail the edges with the scrim

the glass looks as though its tinted (but it isnt tinted) im thinking thats how LOW E  glass looks 

[weetot]

Gasket?

[sherco]

Gasket?

The seal that hold the glass in place is called a gasket.

[weetot]

Oh

[Dave Willis]

bet the brush was nicely contaminated after that lot. Might get some more phone calls.

[Jack Wallace]

 Yes the brush was covered in it but a good swill in a bucket of fairy and a rinse sorted it out.

As sherco says, the gasket is the black rubber seal the glass is sandwiched between. it comes on huge rolls and is covered in silicon grease. The oil makes it easy to get the gasket in when building the windows but causes us problems later on.

I used to be a fenestration manufacturer so tend to use the terms still. I was involved in aluminium curtain walling mainly so used miles and miles of gasket, Horrible greasy stuff 

[tacky]

i thought we were on about cars for a minute ,im ok now