Comments | turk_diddler: A question for the gentle sex

turk_diddler

A question for the gentle sex

Jan 29, 2009 23:00

Ladies, a cleaning query, how would one go about removing wax crayon marks from wallpaper?

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turk_diddler January 29 2009, 23:08:11 UTC

Me? Sexist? But some of my best friends are women.

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turk_diddler January 29 2009, 23:14:12 UTC

Only when their pretty little heads forget to uphold the pretense that they are not so.

artemis_of_isle January 29 2009, 23:05:05 UTC

I think it's pretty easy but I am not gentle so better shup up now. :P

turk_diddler January 29 2009, 23:08:39 UTC

You do understand I was asking on your behalf...

artemis_of_isle January 29 2009, 23:22:35 UTC

oh, thank you for the consideration. You'd better have the hournor all together, asking and cleaning, sweetheart.

turk_diddler January 29 2009, 23:24:09 UTC

Just don't say I never do anything for you.

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eeeo January 29 2009, 23:31:25 UTC

1: Google is your friend.
2: Just remove the wallpaper, the stuff is typically hideous anyhow.

turk_diddler January 29 2009, 23:34:25 UTC

Oh we're definitely anti-wallpaper, after the rewiring it's all coming down. Until then it'd be nicer to live without the green scrawl.

eeeo January 30 2009, 04:45:17 UTC

Glad to hear it.

Maybe you could just get out the Crayolas and make it into a piece of artwork in the meantime.

bluehorse January 30 2009, 00:23:31 UTC

I know you asked for help from the gentle sex, but since my husband is busy vacuuming I decided to try to help you instead.

Here, take your pick:
http://g.s.scandoo.com/search?q=removing+crayon+from+wallpaper&hl=en&meta=on

turk_diddler January 30 2009, 13:38:08 UTC

Thanks, so many ideas, I'll print them out for Wenyu.

bluehorse January 30 2009, 21:21:41 UTC

Good luck!

Let us know what works, if it's not too much trouble?

turk_diddler January 31 2009, 11:06:14 UTC

When we get around to it, first we have a table to assemble today.

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ravenfeather January 30 2009, 00:49:40 UTC

*laughing*

I didn't click on bluehorse's link.. so it may already be answered.. but you place a piece of brown paper bag (absorbent) over the mark, and iron it with a medium heat iron. The theory is (and you can use this for candle wax too) that you melt the wax in the crayon by running the iron over it, and the brown paper bag is more absorbent than the wallpaper, and it lifts it off. Just keep moving the paper bag so you don't remelt the crayon back into the wallpaper.

*edit*

Oh.. this works gangbusters on carpet too!

turk_diddler January 30 2009, 13:36:03 UTC

Brilliant! Of course wax melts, it's so obvious now.

ravenfeather January 30 2009, 23:45:06 UTC

Since we women have been cleaning up after you men for so long.. you were right to ask us...

turk_diddler January 31 2009, 11:05:16 UTC

Well exactly, it's a bit like walking one pace behind us in the street, just the way things are meant to be.

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