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Painting over sticky surface
illumintai
Posts: 57 Forumite
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
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
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Try some white spirit first.0
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Moving out of this house... Got no food or drinks I'm afraid... (Am a student)
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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:0 -
I was going to say WD 40 tooPlease forgive me if my comments seem abrupt or my questions have obvious answers, I have a mental health condition which affects my ability to see things as others might.0
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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 ?
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square_bear wrote: »Try some white spirit first.
:jillumintai 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:0 -
Don't even know white spirit is.... lol0
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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 . . .0 -
I like the thanks button, but ,please, an I agree button.
Will the grammar and spelling police respect I do make grammatical errors, and have carp spelling, no need to remind me.;)
Always expect the unexpected:eek:and then you won't be dissapointed0 -
Obviously not studying common knowledge.I can afford anything that I want.
Just so long as I don't want much.0
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