Cleaning Painted Walls

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if you haven't got any sugar soap try a bit of stale bread rubbed on the paper that sometimes takes the grubby marks off

Whenispayday

Got someone coming to check my flat next week or so. I've managed to get the blu-tack marks off the walls using lemon essential oil and baby wipes!!!!, but the general vile-ness is proving a little bit harder to do.

The walls are painted magnolia

Does anyone have any OS suggestions as to what I can do? I do have soda crystals at my disposal

tattoed_bum

i dont know if it will work but you could try washing it down with some sugar soap ,if it's really that bad then i would be tempted to buy a £5 bucket of magnolia paint

kunekune

Let me know if the sugar soap works! We are in a rented four storey magnolia new build, and will be leaving in a couple of months. The paint does not wash, it just comes off - possibly cos it's on new plaster. If we repaint, we will have to repaint three flights of stairs, since not all magnolia is the same. And the chances of doing it - as amateurs - without then ending up with paint on the carpet is zilch. Oh, the carpet is a bit cheap too, and it has suffered quite badly from children and red wine (I swear by Vanish, btw, you can't really see where the wine stain(s) were). We'll have it cleaned but I am anticipating a bill for professional decorators and a new carpet. My only hope is that actually they'll have to get these things done anyway, because as with lots of new builds there is cracking between the stair frame and the wall, and various other bits of snagging stuff that aren't down to us. So we might be able to negotiate.

Pink.

Hi Whenispayday,

I'm a big fan of sugar soap...it really is good on painted walls and even on matt paint doesn't damage the paintwork.

There's an earlier thread with lots more tips that should help so I've added your thread to it to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

Absinthe_Fairy

Whenispayday wrote: »

Got someone coming to check my flat next week or so. I've managed to get the blu-tack marks off the walls using lemon essential oil and baby wipes!!!!, but the general vile-ness is proving a little bit harder to do.

The walls are painted magnolia

Does anyone have any OS suggestions as to what I can do? I do have soda crystals at my disposal

Hi, I am having the same problem with blu tack marks, I don't know how to get them off! How did you do it and where did you get lemon essential oil?

Thanks!

shopaholic232

what is the best way to do this as everytime i do it seems to make them look dull and dirty

mcjordi

try sugarsoap!

alittlebitofmagic

I'd only use something like sugarsoap if the paint was well applied etc, it can take it completely off, even a good microfibre cloth can!

I find that marks on gloss come off if you rub a bit of toothpaste on it. On emulsion a bit of cif/barkeepers friend removes any marks when you gently rub it on with a dry cloth. I then wash the whole lot, top working down with stardrops.

Possibly they look dirty as you are spreading the dirt away not taking it off?

I once rented briefly and it was not worth re-painting. The walls were filthy and not getting any cleaner. I dried the walls off with an old towel as I washed and the dirt on the towel was amazing, I think I'd have spent a day washing the wall to actually get all the dirt off, the towel worked really well.

shopaholic232

thanks thats great i will give it a go