Removing tomato based stain from PVC tablecloth - Any tips?

busymumof3

Hi there
I bought a new light coloured PVC tablecloth a couple of weeks ago. The kids have already redesigned it in fetching shades of tomato colours!
Does anyone have any ideas for removing these. I have only tried with hot soapy water but to little effect. Don't really use any chemical cleaners so natural remedy preferred if possible. Do any Kim and Aggie desciples use the MSE site??

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comping_cat

I think you will have trouble removing tomato stains, best to try and remove it asap. If it has already been there a while, the only thing i can think off is ammonia, which is good for difficult stains, but i fear you may already be too late.

squeaky

Tomato is a difficult one. An older thread on getting tomato sauce out of a T-shirt might help though once you've stained PVC that's usually it.


Removing tomato sauce

Ticklemouse

I have a pvc tablecloth - a nice white one with a raised texture Tell me about kids and tomato based stains :mad: Weetabix is a nightmare too - but mainly because if the texture.

However - here's how to clean it off (and do your bath at the same time )

Fill bath with warm water and good old fashioned bio washing powder (I keep a box of Tesco value stuff in my bathroom cupboard just for this purpose) Fold the tablecloth so that it sits at the bottom of your bath and soak in the solution for as long as you can - you may want to turn it over a couple of times. Make sure you swish it around to get the water into the folds. You can even rub at the maeks after a while - but I find the mostly come off on their own.

Rinse and hang to dry - I hang over the shower rail to drip dry, as the back is cloth and holds the water. When it's nearly dry I hang over a suitably large radiator as the heat makes the plastic very soft and you can straighten any creases out - in summer you could hang on the line in the sunlight.

I haven't had to resort to anything like bleach and my tablecloth has always come out sparkling white. You also find that you can give your bath a quick wipe around and that's lovely and clean too

HTH

exlibris

The instructions for my food mixer say rub stains with a little cooking oil. I have tried this to remove carrot stains from the white hard plastic bits when washing didn't work and it was successful. It might be worth a try if the tablecloth is damaged anyway.

busymumof3

Many thanks for your tips. I will try then in turn. So far, baking powder and salt paste, toothpaste, and astonish paste have not worked. May be my imagination but I think stains have faded though. I like the idea of leaving to soak in the bath with bio detergent. Next on my list of attempts I think!

rainbowkanga

Think it depends on the quality of the pvc cloth - those methods get stains out on my best cloth but for the kids I have a cheap pvc cloth and once stained by tomato it fades but never completely goes. I generally give them a shelf life of about 18mths (Dunelm sell selection by the metre, can do my large table for £8), then cut them up and use them for other uses! I've got little kids and guess they won't make the complete mess they do at meal times for ever! My best cloth I spent more on per metre - and its more fabric than pvc feeling and stains do come out with bio powder

madmims

Hi everyone - I was reading everyone's comments this morning to see how to get my red stains out of my plastic tablecloth. Firstly I covered the stain in vinegar for about a minute so not sure if this had anything to do with it but I wiped it off and the stain was still there. I then sprayed some Dettol mould and mildew remover spray which has bleach in it. I sprayed the whole area and left it for about two hours and the stain has completely gone!! Good luck to everyone else. Hope it works on your stains.

TravellingAbuela

I give a quick blast of Domestos spray bleach cleaner and leave it to do it's work. That usually removes bolognese stains on mine when the DGD's have done their best to destroy it.

Mummyruns

I thought my lovely cream coloured PVC cloth was ruined forever due to some tomato stains that didn't seem to go away despite a lot of soap, friction and elbow grease, but... after reading this thread I sprayed some Dettol mould and mildew remover spray on the tomato stains and when I went back three hours later, the stains had disappeared! Disappeared!:T