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Old Style help needed - permanent marker on whiteboard surface emergency!

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  • meg72
    meg72 Posts: 5,164 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts I've been Money Tipped!
    Aw bless we didn't have white boards , oldstyle born and bred, but I have been very impressed using babywipes to remove inks from my stamps when cardmaking, , gives me :eek: to think what they do to a baby though.
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  • celyn90
    celyn90 Posts: 3,249 Forumite
    This used to happen a lot when I was teaching - vodka usually works, or nail polish remover.
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    :starmod: Whoever said "nothing is impossible" obviously never tried to nail jelly to a tree :starmod:
  • This happens more than it should at my workplace. Scribbling over the permanent marker with a whiteboard marker, wiping off, repeat as necessary, seems to work. It isn't perfect but it doesn't require anything that might inflict further damage on the whiteboard, or cost more money.
  • The Jml cleaning block thingies, sorry cant remember there name, they're white and you cut them to size. My dd wrote all over my computer screen years ago in permanent marker and these did a perfect job :) unfortunately they didn't work on the lounge wall :/
  • jackieblack
    jackieblack Posts: 10,493 Forumite
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    celyn90 wrote: »
    This used to happen a lot when I was teaching - vodka usually works
    Is vodka something a teacher would generally have, readily to hand? :D
    :rotfl: :eek: :rotfl:
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  • jackieblack
    jackieblack Posts: 10,493 Forumite
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    MSE_Andrea wrote: »
    Someone (we're mentioning no names - because we do know) picked up that permanent marker and used it on the "whiteboard" wall

    Oh, go on...... :rotfl:

    Was it :money:? :D
    2.22kWp Solar PV system installed Oct 2010, Fronius IG20 Inverter, south facing (-5 deg), 30 degree pitch, no shading
    Everything will be alright in the end so, if it’s not yet alright, it means it’s not yet the end
    MFW #4 OPs: 2018 £866.89, 2019 £1322.33, 2020 £1337.07
    2021 £1250.00, 2022 £1500.00, 2023 £1500, 2024 £1350
    2025 target = £1200, YTD £690
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  • WD40 is good for removing permanent marker. Worked for me on a kitchen worktop.
  • redruby
    redruby Posts: 7,317 Forumite
    Try perfume x
  • stellata
    stellata Posts: 326 Forumite
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    .....the clear gel stuff.
    It contains alcohol, works brilliantly as a solvent. Leave it on for a few seconds and wipe with paper towels. Then use flash to clean it off.
    It gets sharpie ink off lots of things.
    :)
    Magnolia Stellata
  • stellata
    stellata Posts: 326 Forumite
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    The cleaning blocks (melamine foam) are in wilkos at £1. Flash magic something :) theyre very useful.
    Magnolia Stellata
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