If you have glass end tables in your home you know all about fingerprints, smudges, and all sorts of streaks and lines that likely drive you crazy, as they mar the look of that beautiful glass. So you haul out the glass cleaner, squirt out a few sprays and wipe up the glass, making it look beautiful again. What you may not realize is what you are really doing to the rest of your glass end tables with those glass cleaner sprays.
While glass cleaner is great for making glass look crystal clear, it is not meant for most other surfaces. As a matter of fact, it can make a mess of wood and other finishes on your furniture. This makes for a difficult situation as most glass end tables are made of more than just glass. Even if you are overly careful with those glass cleaner bursts, some of it is inadvertently going to touch more than just the glass top of your glass end tables. So, how do you undo the damage that is being done?
First you have to figure out what kind of damage the glass cleaner has caused. Often when it is sprayed on wood, there are little white spots left behind. It is possible that these are not actually spots caused by the chemicals in the glass cleaner, but by the water in the solution. Water on a wood surface is never a good mix, and if it sinks in, it can leave the trapped water showing itself as those white spots. Getting rid of these spots is something that has puzzled many an aggravated furniture owner. Some swear by a new line of products that are in home improvement stores, which are pre-oiled rags that claim they will help you get rid of the spots if you wipe it over the affected areas. In some respects this makes sense. If you can get the oil to sink below the surface of the finish, it can displace the water, sending it out of the piece, and return the wood finish to it's original color.
If this doesn't work there are other options, but they take more care and consideration. If the white-spotted area has a lacquer finish, you can try lightly spraying it with a lacquer thinner. For a shellac finish, you can try spraying the area with denatured alcohol and shellac. Don't wipe or touch it. What you are hoping for is that the thinners will activate the lacquer or shellac just long enough for the moisture that is causing the spots to get out, and then re-harden and go back to it's original look.
For an oil-finished wood, you're going to have to pull out sandpaper or a pumice stone. Carefully sand the affected area just enough to get right of the white mark to disappear then re-oil.
If these options don't work, you may have to go to square one and refinish the wood portion of your glass end tables to get them to look as they did before the white spots showed up.
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