How can you address glass etched by hard water?
Question:Glasses washed in our disk washer develop a haze (or etching) on them over a relatively small amount of time. In AZ, we have hard water but we have a water softener. Dish washer appears to be "staining" glasses. Dish washer is a Bosch (doubt that matters)
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My experience is that, once etched, glasses cannot be repaired. To avoid etching them, use a bit less dishwasher detergent, avoid lemon dishwasher detergent, and if all else fails, handwash the really good ones.
Address them as SIR.
Try C.L.R.. (calcium, lime and rust remover)
Try diluted bleach.
Soak them in vinegar and then rub them dry with newspaper.
I just moved and all of the glasses that I thought were ruined with etching now look brand new. It definitely has something to do with the hard water. Not sure how to address it other than to try and make your water softer. I have no clue how that works though.
Soak them in an acidic solution - C.L.R, as another poster suggested, or perhaps white vinegar and water - then wipe them clean. Try a rinse aid, like Jet-Dry, to keep them from redeveloping the scale.
we have well water. that happens each time the softener runs out of salt or when we catch it off cycle. there is a great product called glass magic. i use it in the second wash and it really helps. sometimes you can just wash them a couple times when you're sure there is salt in the softener and it will come off on it's own. the only other thing i know is to let them soak in the sink wiith vinegar and water.
I have never heard of being able to remove the haze/etching for glasses. I would hand wash glasses in the future.
How are the rest of your things doing?
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