Household hits online- Advice Please!!!

[sweetnpetite]

This may seem like a strange place to ask, but I'm never let down when I ask for advice on lit.

Does anyone know how to get black hair dye stains off from a white wall?-- without damaging the wall!

 

[Svenskaflicka]

White paint?

Sorry, I'm not all that good in chemistry.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

black is hard to remove from white. Its also hard to cover. You might try Kaboom or oxyclean mixed in boiling hot water. But you might find they only smear. It really depends on what the wall is constructed of.

-Colly

 

[cloudy]

This may seem like a strange place to ask, but I'm never let down when I ask for advice on lit.

Does anyone know how to get black hair die stains off from a white wall?-- without damaging the wall!

I forget who makes it (maybe it's a "Mr. Clean" brand), but there's a thing called something like a household eraser that you can get at the grocery store in the same aisle with all the cleaning stuff. I haven't found anything yet that it won't take off walls, and I have three kids.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Re: Re: Household hits online- Advice Please!!!

I forget who makes it (maybe it's a "Mr. Clean" brand), but there's a thing called something like a household eraser that you can get at the grocery store in the same aisle with all the cleaning stuff. I haven't found anything yet that it won't take off walls, and I have three kids.

...and how many did you have before you used this product on them?

 

[cloudy]

Re: Re: Re: Household hits online- Advice Please!!!

...and how many did you have before you used this product on them?

You promised not to tell!!

 

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[Weird Harold]

Does anyone know how to get black hair die stains off from a white wall?-- without damaging the wall!

Bleach might work, but it depends on the type of wall and the type of paint/surface your'e dealing with. The label of the hair dye might offer some clues as well.

My daughter has a book, How To Clean Almost Anything, that is just filled with answers to problems like this.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Successful removal depends upon the kind of paint and the kind of surface your stain is on.

If you know what paint was used, someone from a paint store which handles that brand should be able to give the best advice.

Find someone like a supervisor, not just any doofus who can run a till.

 

[sweetnpetite]

It's not wallpaper, its drywall with latex paint-- standard apartment building wall. oh and I got some on the plastic lightswitch cover too I think.

 

[sweetnpetite]

Find someone like a supervisor, not just any doofus who can run a till.

That pretty much applies to everything, doesn't it.

 

[sweetnpetite]

If it's painted plaster or drywall and none of the cleaners work, first paint over it with "Kills" (white shellac). You might need two applications, depending on the wall color, and then repaint.

If it's wallpaper, you're probably screwed. (Sorry).

After I asked, my boyfriend came home and then said this was what he was planning on doing anyway.

He apparently didn't want to let me in on this, because he wanted to make me suffer for staining the wall, and because i told him I could get it out-- eventually.

Thanks everyone and what the hell. if yo've got good clean-up tips you want to post, go for it. I'm sure they'll help someone, and probably me, in the near future

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

. . . if yo've got good clean-up tips you want to post . . . I'm sure they'll help someone . . .

All Temperature Cheer in cool water will remove every discernable trace of bloodstain, except from the Crime Scene Investigation’s Laboratory.

 

[sincerely_helene]

Surefire!

This may seem like a strange place to ask, but I'm never let down when I ask for advice on lit.

Does anyone know how to get black hair dye stains off from a white wall?-- without damaging the wall!

Sledge Hammer.

 

[jthserra]

Your best bet is to listen to Lime...

The product is Kilz, available most anywhere they sell paint. Try several coats and hopefully it won't bleed through.

How big is the stain? If it is smaller than a dime you might try to gouge it out and then fill the gouge with caulk or spackle. If the wall is textured, they sell a texture that comes in a spray can, it works pretty good. Whatever you do to the wall, you will need to paint over it.


jim : )

 

[Lisa Denton]

This may seem like a strange place to ask, but I'm never let down when I ask for advice on lit.

Does anyone know how to get black hair dye stains off from a white wall?-- without damaging the wall!

Simply take the person with the black dye hair, dye their hair white and chain them back to the wall and do the same thing again, might work.

 

[R. Richard]

Some years ago I lived in a condo where some idiot rented to three 18-year-old kids. They drew on the walls with Magic Marker. The walls were dry wall and they first sanded the walls heavily, then they used a primer coat, then they used two coats of (off)white. The paint did cover pretty well, but if you looked at the walls in bright daylight from just the right angle, you could tell that something was wrong.

 

[doormouse]

White paint?

Sorry, I'm not all that good in chemistry.

Everytime I see your posts I feel like licking something

 

[doormouse]

on a serious note, try toothpaste, if nobody has already suggested it.

 

[doormouse]

Re: Surefire!

Sledge Hammer.

Sorry, but LOL!!

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I really don't think you'll be able to remove black hair dye from a wall painted with latex. The dye is designed to penetrate and hold on tight and latex is very porous paint. Soap and water are exactly the things that hair dyes are designed to resist, as well as chemical bleaching agents and sunlight. Otherwise they wouldn't be very good dyes, would they?

Cover it with Killz and paint over it.

---dr.M.

 

[Donna Williams]

Stain Remover

One of the best products found in most hardware stores is

"Goog Off" (especially for crayons on walls)

"Goo gone" is supposed to be another but I haven't tried that.


Donna

 

[millennium_bard]

There is a glycol/ether mixture sold in the US under various brand names. In my area it is marketed as "Awesome".

I have used it to take off a lot of stains and marks that other cleaners have failed with.