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Every so often I get something in to reframe and the customer asks me to reuse the glass.
I agree and take out the new glass portion of my price.
Then I actually make the new frame and realise the old glass is really grubby and I spend ages cleaning it or decide just to cut a new piece anyway neither of which I've priced properly.
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On our list of glazing options in our pricing software we have "use customers own glass" and that works it out to the same price/mark up as a new piece of standard 2mm float. That way if it's so grubby we don't want to bother cleaning it or we manage to break it then our costs are covered.
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I spent half an hour last weekend cleaning a sheet of glass. Brand new it was too.

Roboframer would have said "it will cost you more to clean that old glass than to install some new glass." I stopped recycling glass when I read that. And I don't have clients paying for it...
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Post by prospero »

Best way to clean manky glass is v.fine steel wool and white spirit. If the spirit doesn't shift the muck
then lighter fluid. I only tend to do this on old wavy glass which comes up a treat when thoroughly
cleaned.

If the glass is modern then I agree that it's faaaaar cheaper to cut a new bit. :D
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