subject: Repairing The Brass Curtain Rings [print this page] A lot of homeowners are now fascinated with brass curtain rings especially with the kind of elegance and classic style that it can provide to any window treatment within a room. There are cases when the real beauty of the brass rings comes out if they are being grouped and matched with the window treatment. But of course, the individual rings are in its self nice and elegant although without the window treatment it becomes bare.
Brass curtain rings will always be beautiful and elegant with its royal touch secondary to it being gold-like in color. But, without maintenance and any kind of treatment, they can also ruin the beauty of the window treatment especially when they produce stain. You can replace both the curtain and the brass rings but there is a way that you can avoid having to buy another set of brass rings.
If you invest a little time and attention to it, your brass rings will definitely be as good as it was before. But before anything else, let us list the items that you need. The things that you need in restoring your brass rings to beauty include polish brass, blocks of wood, small rubber hammer, old clothes and some UV resistant varnish or polyurethane.
Now, you can actually learn the tricks from your brass supplier but in any case that you dont the first phase would be the restructuring of the brass ring. You can restore the original shape of the ring by utilizing the small rubber hammer and blocks of wood. We all know that brass metals are soft and they can be easily bent out of shape with time. But, this does not mean you can just throw them out into the trash.
The next phase in the restoration would be to polish by using a good polish copper that you can buy from a brass supplier or from the store. Apply it on the ring by using your old clothes and follow the instructions included on the polish brass you bought. Restoring the old appearance of the brass ring may involve several coating especially when time has already passed by them.
Finally, you can apply a UV resistant varnish to keep the metal sealed and not exposed to air since the air exposure facilitates the distortion. You can talk to your brass supplier about any information that can let you restore the original beauty of the brass rings.
