Does your shower glass look like this?
Shower Glass Restoration
Don’t be embarrassed as most chemicals you buy from the supermarkets don’t have the natural ingredients to remove the build up of soap scum or hard water stains.
Glass to the human eye looks clear hence we can see through it and to touch it feels nice and smooth.
But glass under a microscope is actually porous, hence when minerals from the water come in contact with the glass some will embed themselves into your glass along with the soap scum making shower glass cleaning extremely difficult.
Where does your water come from?
You maybe surprised that we all don’t drink or shower in the same water in Auckland. The fact it is if you live in Onehunga or surrounding area’s your water comes from a natural spring in Spring Street.
Shower Glass Cleaning in Mangere Bridge (this shower glass is only 2 years old)
Lots of calcium present in the water due to the water mains being 70 years old
Once upon a time water was also taken from Western Springs, although now all water is drawn either from Hunua and Waitakere Ranges reservoirs.
This being the case your shower glass cleaning will take longer to clean due to the fact we have to remove not only the soap scum but all these minerals that are present within the water.
So we may need to view your shower first, before we give you a quote for your shower glass cleaning.
Why does this happen?
In simple terms water molecules and glass have similar polarities and deep within a water molecule there are positive and negative ends.
When a surface has such polar properties it is referred to as being “hydrophilic”.
This property will cause the negative end of one molecule to be attracted to a positive end of another molecule just the same way a magnetic works with a positive and negative field.
So if you wonder why shower glass cleaning takes intense scrubbing to remove the soap scum and hard water from your shower you are now a little wiser – those damp positive and negative molecules.
How do you remove the soap scum and hard water build up?
We use a proven and tested product that we import from the USA.
This product is a micronized mineral powder that is super fine, 100% natural, acid and chemical free organic polishing compound.
The powder is then mixed with water and then pasted on to the shower glass.
After a few minutes the paste will dry and bond itself to the glass.
Then the exciting part begins where we use a commercial water safe shower glass cleaning polisher to remove the compound.
This process can take anywhere between 1.5 – 3 hours depending on how much soap scum and hard water build up you have on your shower.
Depending on how old your shower is and the thickness of the glass the results will vary.
Overall you will have a much cleaner shower than you had before and if you want to save time and money shower glass cleaning, we recommend that you have your shower sealed with our hydrophobic coating.
Below is a 15 year old shower that we restored at the Metropolis Building in Auckland.
This shower glass cleaning took about 4 hours including putting our glass coating on to the shower glass to make it easier to keep clean.
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Shower Glass Cleaning in Kaiaua.
This is a 25 year old shower glass and the customer is on bore water, hence the shower glass is heavily stained. After 5 hours machining the glass we able to bring some life back to it and then coated with our shower glass protection.
Have a look at the video and see the before and after results.
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