How to clear the Wallpaper from dirt
Wallpaper – the most common type of finishing material that is used for different areas. It is not enough just to buy and pokleit them, you need to know what to do and what tools to have for cleaning the surface of various kinds of stains that can occur.
Types of Wallpapers ↑
Now the market offers a huge variety of chemical products for cleaning the whole house, and Wallpaper is no exception. But, before buying a particular chemical, you need to clearly know what type of coating to be clean. Wallpaper are:
- Paper
- Non-woven
- Natural
- Vinyl
Each type requires special cleaning, not least in the choice of plays and the contamination – it may be just dust and dirt, and can be more serious stains from the glue, grease, wine, ink and ink. Removal is performed and folk ways, including the use of baking soda, salt, vinegar, hydrogen peroxide, starch, citric and oxalic acid, potassium permanganate.
Paper and natural Wallpaper ↑
Paper Wallpaper is relatively inexpensive, so the majority of those who make repairs, paste them in a totally different space, from bedrooms and ending with the bathroom. This coating requires very delicate care, the wet method is not suitable.
Struggle with simple pollution ↑
The most simple is the technology of removing dirt and stains, which implies using a dry brush, which you want to walk across the surface of the Wallpaper thereby removing mild dirt and dust. This should be done at each cleaning.
Often on the paper covering the finger marks appear, which spoil the appearance, especially actual this problem is for families with children. Prints are easily removed with an eraser stationery. You need to treat every spot, but, in order to avoid damage of the coating, the method is tested on an inconspicuous area of the Wallpaper.
Tips for removing difficult stains ↑
Difficult to remove Wallpaper stains from marker, paint, glue, a pencil, but it is still possible. If after the first time to remove the contamination failed, you can try to do it again.
Perhaps the most oldest and effective way to clean the Wallpaper from grease, pencil and ink can be called the use of breadcrumbs or stale wheat bread. In the first case, a small piece of fresh bread applied to the pollution and wait for his clarification. In the second, crunches performed top-down until then, until it will absorb all the fat or leftover marker from Wallpaper.
Perfectly removes oil stains plain paper. Only need to apply to contaminated site a sheet of white paper or cloth and hold them with a hot iron several times. The stain will soak into the paper, and Wallpaper will remain pristine.
Grease stains absorbed in various fine powder, it can be starch, soda, talcum powder, which is poured on the surface and after a short exposure to resemble Wallpaper dry brush.
Ink and felt tip, you can gently remove with a cloth moistened with ethyl alcohol or ammonia. If the first aid kit neither one nor the other, the rescue citric acid or vinegar. But much to wet the surface of the Wallpaper is not recommended, as there is a risk not get the stain and spoil the paper texture. After processing spot promatyvaya dry cloth and let dry naturally. It is worth remembering that the Sharpie water-based, easy to clean in soapy water, but the figure made by the marker alcohol-based, will be printed with a Wallpaper only with alcohol.
A special place is removing the glue from the Wallpaper. In practice, the excess dried adhesive after the repair is impossible to get off. But you can reduce their visibility possible. To do this, old spot treating with warm water from a spray and leave for 10 – 15 minutes. After erase moisture with a soft cloth. This treatment will lead to the fact that part of the stain is gone, and it will become less noticeable.
Now gaining popularity is the wall-paper, decorated with metallic foil. To clean them a lot easier, and spots in a texture absorbed longer.
- The surface of the Wallpaper is processed with a vacuum cleaner.
- Preparing a light soap solution and subsequently applied on a soft sponge.
- Contaminated surface is cleaned with a damp sponge, and the excess water removed with a clean dry cloth.
Shoe cover made from natural materials such as straw, bamboo and so on may be carried out only in dry form, and very neatly. You should not overdo it and RUB the dirt with a stiff brush, it is best to use pen that allows you to dust off your Wallpaper without injury to the fibers. Remember that any natural material surface has a special protective layer that is easily dissolved by moisture. Unfortunately, if these Wallpapers are ruined by spots of glue, permanent marker or pencil, then save them will not succeed.
Non-woven and vinyl Wallpapers ↑
Such surfaces must be cleaned much easier. On each roll there is a special marking, according to which remove stains:
- One wave of the square – these Wallpapers do not favor intensive wash, they wipe lightly with a damp soft sponge with no added detergents.
- Two waves in water to clean you can add a bit of soap.
- The three waves represent a solid Wallpaper that is the most resistant to humidity. They can be cleaned by any cleaning.
- The image combs with waves – it is possible to use a cleaning brush and a vacuum cleaner.
Rules wash Wallpapers ↑
Despite the fact that the interlining and vinyl – a durable coating, brushing them gently. You should follow the simple rules of cleaning, not to damage the surface and enjoy the view for many years:
- Wash quickly without too moisten the surface.
- Not to make the effort, as it is likely to damage the upper layer.
- After washing, Wallpaper cleaned with a dry cloth.
- To dry the coating should under natural conditions, no need to open the Windows and use a drying Hairdryer or other appliances, this can lead to peeling and shrinking Wallpaper.
Removal of difficult spots ^ the
If the surface still remains glue stains, fingers, pencil or marker, then you can display them the appropriate way.
When removing fingerprints on the vinyl and non-woven Wallpaper, unlike paper, can be in addition to eraser to use a melamine sponge. But the way in any case, first test on an inconspicuous area first. This sponge will easily remove children’s art made with a pencil or marker, and paint.
Grease stains leave the cover easy if you dip them in gasoline or mix of gasoline and tooth powder. The mixture is applied to the contaminated area and allow it to dry. The remains smachivaetsya brush.
To remove fresh and old stains from a felt tip pen, marker, coffee, wine, grease, adhesive, ink and rubbing alcohol, solvents, vinegar, citric acid, a slurry of starch and soda. A great tool is hydrogen peroxide. It is necessary to moisten a cotton swab in the solution and gently hold the lines in the pattern on the Wallpaper. After some time, the pollution will disappear.
Pretty easy to deal with almost any stain with oxygen bleach and powders, but they are used only on light surfaces. Special gel and pasty cleaners can help to remove the strong stains on the Wallpaper in places of constant contact with the surface (near switches, sockets).
Remove the modeling clay from Wallpaper ↑
This theme is familiar to all young parents whose kids have begun to explore the world. Is the baby overlooked as a nasty surprise correction which will take mom a lot of time ready. Before you clean the clay out of Wallpaper, it is necessary to determine further sequence of actions. It all depends on the kind of coverage.
Smooth Wallpapers ↑
The sequence is as follows:
- Remove clay with a Wallpaper scraper.
- Heat the remaining dirt with a Hairdryer and a subsequent promatyvaya it with a tissue to transfer her.
- The wetting of greasy stains with soap and sponge.
- Drying of the treated area hair-dryer.
Embossed Wallpaper ↑
In case of contamination of the exposed Wallpaper pattern uses a white clay. You need to do the following:
- Glue a white piece of clay to the existing stain and sharply torn off. Much mash it is not necessary, and glue directly to the existing pollution.
- The heated remains of the Hairdryer, and try to remove with a napkin. This can be done with a damp cloth when heated with an iron.
- Grease stain is washed with a sponge soaked in soapy water.
On paper and napkins should not be drawings and inscriptions in ink, as they can be stamped on Wallpaper. It is strictly forbidden to use the newspaper.
Wallpaper is a decorative coating that, perhaps, there is in each house. He has one negative is the difficulty of removing contaminants. If the dust can simply be brushed off or wiped clean, that children’s drawings with a pencil, and moreover marker or pen, can ruin the appearance of the coating so that’ll need to redo the repair. But you can always try them out. Importantly, for preserving the original look, you should try to clean the surface as soon as it was spoiled and to do it right, because regular care is much easier than re-repair.