Rain Chains Gutter Guards

Green & Blue Patina Recipes
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You can progress the green patina color with these recipes from home product cleaners. Consider you will be using acidic cleaners and foods. In the inner country away from salt water the copper may take several years to turn green. Below is a recipe from your home garden and kitchen shelves. You just spray on the copper and let it activate itself. It turns Patina Green the color so many people love. We've included a recipe for a blue color, too.

These are all natural acidic mixes. So use gloves, eye protection, long pants and shirts for covering your sensitive body parts.

For the mixing: You will need a plastic spray bottle recycled and rinsed out clean. Or be careful and apply with a damping of a cloth. (Wear gloves)

Please read about these cleaning products below at www.wikipedia.org for your uses and self education.

Make sure copper is free from oils, chemicals, and dirt. Make sure it is clean.

Simple recipe for Green:

1 Tablespoon of ammonium chloride (sal ammoniac) refer to Wikipedia.com
1 Tablespoon of salt
1 ounce of ammonia
1 quart of warm water.

Mix and apply lightly. Let dry naturally. Apply to desired coloring.

Simple recipe for Blue:

Eliminate the ammonium chloride above. Spray with vinegar first. Then spray with the blue recipe and enclose in a plastic bag to let it activate to the copper for desired time. Then take out of enclosure and let dry. Continue process until desired coloring.

You can experiment with light mixtures for other coloring. We found these on the World Wide Web.

The use of these recipes are in your hands for coloring your purchased rain chain products. www.rainchainsgutterguards.com and www.supercleangutterscreen.com will not take any returns or responsibility after your or someone elses use of these metal coloring recipes on products purchased from us. Test before application.

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