Cleaning Painted Walls

EndlessStruggle

I'm going to test it and see how I get on. Will get some stardrops too as have read some threads on here for both products and can definitely find uses for both. Will try that one too and see which gives me the best result.

lostinrates

Washing up liquid.


I use this where my dogs rub or lay against walls, in warm water with a microfibre cloth. It removes the dirt and the grease from their coats. Commercial sprays lighten the paint and leave faint bleached streaks and sugar soap is roo abrasive.

Limana68

Sorry to hijack this thread but I keep hearing about Stardrops- can someone tell me what they are and where I can buy them as they sound like just what I need!
Thanks

newbutold

Limana68 wrote: »

Sorry to hijack this thread but I keep hearing about Stardrops- can someone tell me what they are and where I can buy them as they sound like just what I need!
Thanks

It is a multi-purpose cleaning agent. Try wilkinsons or home bargains.

http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?q=stardrops&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=14353617110901169954&sa=X&ei=N4qMT9e5B8L58QPI2fG8CQ&ved=0CCIQ8wIwAQ

Ruby789

Hi all,

Is there any way of cleaning white painted walls which are grubby? I tried water and a cloth but that just spread the dirt round and it now looks worse.

I'm renting else I'd give it a fresh coat of paint. Letting agent could care less.

Thank you

babyshoes

Sugar soap is the traditional way to clean paint. Most hardware or DIY shops should stock it.

Ruby789

Thanks babyshoes.

I will head to Homebase tonight and see if I can find it. Never heard of it before!

pigpen

if it is matt paint wiping it will bring the paint off and using sugar soap will be worse.. as spend the money on sugar soap and cleaning stuff you may as well wipe the walls with washing up liquid and buy cheap white paint and slop that on!!

Ruby789

I didn't manage to find any sugar soap last night. It is matt paint that I am looking to clean up.

It's a real pain of a room to paint so i'll only paint it as a last resort. As soon as I touch any part of the room with fresh paint, the rest will then look worse, so its all or nothing. And, since the letting agent and landlord have never maintained anything in my 5 years there and it wasn't even freshly painted when I moved in either, I'm reluctant to leave it in a better condition than I found it out of principle.

Will give washing up liquid a go then. If it looks bad then I will have to paint it I suppose.

Sethisis

I use baby wipes on my walls (same issue, rented flat, the walls were a bit grubby to begin with, I really don't want to fork out to paint the place)
Baby wipes seem to clean most stains without rubbing the paint off.