Painting over sticky surface

illumintai

Hi,

Over the winter I covered my windows with plastic covers for insulation. I sealed the windows using dualsided tapes.

Now the winter is gone !

It took considerable efforts to take off the tapes but theres a lot of sticky glue left. Since I was gonna paint it over anyway is there much point in trying to completely remove the glues ??

Can I just paint over it ??

Pls help !
Thanks

square_bear

Try some white spirit first.

illumintai

Moving out of this house... Got no food or drinks I'm afraid... (Am a student)

Thanks

milfield

I've recently taken up my carpets which were stuck down with carpet adhesive, and boy is that sticky stuff! A quick search on the net indicated it is indeed a 'mare to remove but a site suggested WD40 or vegetable oil! Quick spray of WD40, leave for an hour and the stuff came off a treat. It breaks down the adhesive apparently so I'd guess it should do the trick for you.

It does a couple of thousand other things also:

http://www.wd40.co.uk/uses-tips/uses-tips-home/find-a-use.aspx

Enjoy! :rotfl:

Raksha

I was going to say WD 40 too

illumintai

Thanks.. but while taking of the tapes it took chunks off paints too... and I really left this til last minute and have to paint over it anyway... do u really not recommend painting it over ?

Thanks

societys_child

square_bear wrote: »

Try some white spirit first.

:j

illumintai wrote:

Moving out of this house... Got no food or drinks I'm afraid... (Am a student)

:eek: Do students really drink white spirit?:rotfl:

illumintai

Don't even know white spirit is.... lol

societys_child

Paint thinners

Whatever you do, never drink it :beer:

As for over-painting the sticky bits . . depends how bad it is . . and if you can get away with it . . .

cyclonebri1

illumintai wrote: »

Don't even know white spirit is.... lol

What exactly are you studying? :think:

27col

Obviously not studying common knowledge.