How to clean wallpaper from plasticine?

In a house with small children, anything is possible. Therefore, the question of how to clean the wallpaper from clay is not surprising for many mothers. Mom should be able to do everything: clean the wallpaper from plasticine or a marker, and wipe the doors with the ceiling, if necessary, from any dirt. And also wash, wash, cook, clean, and so on ad infinitum. But at the moment we’ll look at how a tricky way to save the wallpaper that has been damaged as a result of an unsuccessful experiment is from plasticine adhering to them. Such finishing coatings are different - the most difficult thing is with paper coatings that cannot be washed and which will stain anyway, even if all of our manipulations are successful. Methods of dealing with adhering plasticine, first of all, differ, depending on whether the materials are smooth or embossed.

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Smooth coatings

The easiest way, of course, is to remove adhered clay from smooth materials that do not have a relief pattern. How to wipe plasticine from such wallpapers?

• Using a scraper, remove the top layer of adhered clay from the surface of the wallpaper. Try to do this carefully so as not to scratch the coating and not smear the sticky mass even more on the surface of the wall.
• In the second step you will need a hairdryer. With it, you need to warm the affected area. Remove the melted mass with a clean cloth or paper.

Important! Do not use newspapers or napkins with a pattern or texture for these purposes, or you will aggravate the problem, and you will have to think later how to remove traces of improvised means.

• Instead of a hairdryer, you can use an iron, ironing a problem area through a napkin. Change the cloth periodically until all traces are completely removed.
• After all these manipulations, it remains only to remove the oily stain. You can remove it with a soap solution. Moisten a sponge in a soap solution and treat the problem area, then you can dry this place with a hairdryer and evaluate the result of the work done.

If the first time you could not completely remove all the traces, then leave the wallpaper for a while, then try again.

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Embossed materials

If somehow we figured out with smooth materials, then what to do with embossed materials? How to remove plasticine from such wallpapers? There is a method for this case. To do this, you will need a piece of white plasticine, and it is not necessary to knead it first, that is, it should not be soft:

1. First you need to glue a piece of white material to the problem area directly on top of its unlucky “brother” and tear it off sharply. This must be done several times until the bulk of the mass stuck to the walls is removed.
2. Now you need to warm this place with a hairdryer and get it wet with a napkin.
3. A grease stain can be cleaned with soapy water or white spirit, and then dried.

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Useful Tips:

• In some cases, you can try to freeze the plastic mass with dry ice, then remove, and wash the stain with a soap solution or any dishwashing detergent.
• If all else fails, then this area can be glued with the same wallpaper. True, if you glued the wallpaper for a long time, then it will be striking. In this case, you can simply decorate this place in any way: a vase with flowers, a picture or another method convenient for you.

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In this article, we examined some of the simplest but most effective ways to clean clay from walls.We hope that with these recommendations you were able to restore the purity of the finishing materials pretty quickly.