Urgent Help!!!!

Tondella

I'm moving from my rented flat tomorrow, and giving it a thorough clean today.

I've found a patch of melted leg wax on the laminate floor behind the bin and can't get it up despite scrubbing and scrubbing - please can anyone suggest a way of getting it off before i have to pay for a new floor to be laid out of my damage deposit? I'm desperate

Thanks in advance

suep

All I can think off is to cover it with either a brown paper bag or greaseproof paper and rub your iron ( med heat ) over it, it works with candle wax so it might help. If not I'm sure someone else will think of something brilliant.
Good luck
sue

Penelope_Penguin

Tondella wrote: »

I'm moving from my rented flat tomorrow, and giving it a thorough clean today.

I've found a patch of melted leg wax on the laminate floor behind the bin and can't get it up despite scrubbing and scrubbing - please can anyone suggest a way of getting it off before i have to pay for a new floor to be laid out of my damage deposit? I'm desperate

Thanks in advance

Sorry to hear that, Tondella. Is it a patch of raised wax (that you can scrape up carefully with the edge of a blunt knife) or an oily stain that's soaked into the laminate (no idea what to do there)?

Best of luck with the move, Penny. x

brazilianwax

try baby wipes (gets it off skin too).

woofwoofwoof

I know its leg wax, but the way to remove candle wax is to put some brown paper on top of it and iron over it (using an iron obviously); don't have the heat too high. As I said, I know its leg wax but if you heat it up you should be able to get it off.

Tondella

It's essentially a sugary glue - It's sat on top of the laminate, but there isn't enough to be able to scrape it off (especially not without damaging the laminate) the iron thing might be worth a go ... or else i thought maybe nail polish remover - that's what people recommend for chewing gum isn't it?

lil_me

Nail varnish remover might remove the top layer of coating off the laminate, I wouldn't try it without checking on an unseen area first.

soappie

Really hot water to melt it a tad and then wipe up with paper towel/loo paper?

MrsTinks

Seriously try baby wipes or baby oil - small bits first!
Or maybe one of the halogen hob scrapers? Carefully obviously so you don't damage the floor underneath.
I would tend to opt for a careful application of a hot iron too with something to absorb the melted wax...
Or maybe the other extreem... try icecubes to freeze it and make it easier to scrape?

ZIZA

I work in a beauty salon and we have this problem all the time so we use white spirit and that seems to do the job

frogga

My DD says "If it's leg wax a spit and rub should work!"

Charming!!:p