help with a floor please

churchrat

not a catchy title, so many thanks if you are reading this post.
My problem---I clean the floof at my local church which is made of varnished wood that is "professionally" (ha) claened and I think wax polished every 3 mnths or so. Candle wax has been spilt on it and is always dripping from the candles the alter servers carry. I've tried scrapping it off but it scratched the floor and looked worse without taking off much of the candle wax. I'm a bit worried about using a warm iron, as I do on the carpet cos I might melt it. Any ideas gratefully recieved
many thanks CR:o

squeaky

Ouch!

How to get wax off an already waxed floor? Jeeze.

The only thing that I can suggest is that you have a tin of wax floor polish handy, use the ironing trick and then just polish any areas if you lift the original surface.

If there's a place that's not readily visible you could do a trial first to see how it goes.

M.E.

Try the hot credit card scrape!!!
Use an old bank card, dunk the edge in a cup of very hot water then use it, whilst hot, to scrape the wax off.
The heat will help separate the wax blob from the floor and the bendy plastic should not scrape the wood too much.

squeaky

Nice one

churchrat

many thanks and at last-- a good reason for owning a bank card:j

squeaky

If the floor was originally waxed there's a chance that the hot wax dripping on it will have melted it.

So I'd still try this in a non visible area and have your polish handy.

Anyway - good luck and let us know how it goes