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CLEANING PAINTED WALLS
house cleaning
Cleaning painted walls is not always straight forward. Some paints are tough and benefit from being washed whilst other paint surfaces are easily damaged.
How do you find out?
Old paint is likely to chip off if handled roughly and matt and satin water-based paints can loose their top surface.
If you damage a wall whilst washing it, it is difficult to find an exact paint color to match the old one where you hope to make good the damaged bit.
What can we do?
Cleaning Painted Walls
Sometimes, using a rubber or eraser on stains will lift them but at other times the eraser will actually stain the wall!!.
Make it part of your cleaning programme, to dust your walls routinely. Dusty walls and ceilings attract further dirt to stick on them.
Try to avoid washing walls unless they are painted with gloss added paints or are made with wood panelling or something you know to be easily washable.
Before washing the walls in question, try your washing solution mix and your method on a wall that is a bit hidden from general view.
Washing Painted Walls
- Wear overalls if possible. To avoid water running up your arms, put rubber bands around the ends of your overall sleeves and wear rubber gloves!
- Protect the floor at the base of the wall.
- Dust the area well.
- Have two buckets, cloths and dry towels at the ready. One bucket should hold the solution and the other the clean water.
- Always wash walls starting at the bottom and working to the top. Using this method will avoid dirty water trickling down the walls in tiresome rivulets of grime that are difficult to remove!
- There are various commercially recommended wall washing solutions but you can also try home-made mixes. Make sure to read any given instructions on bottles and boxes first.
Home-made Household Cleaning Solutions
A squirt of your household general purpose cleaner into warm water
or
A small amount of sugar soap into warm water
or
a more complicated mix-
Add to 1 gallon of warm water, ½ cup vinegar, ½ cup baking soda and 1 cup of ammonia. Remember ammonia liquid is very smelly, so wear your rubber gloves and only work in a well ventilated room.
Washing, Rinsing and Cleaning Painted Walls
- Gloss painted window and door frames are is easy to wash, rinse and dry whilst washing walls requires more of a method.
- Wash the wall, area by area starting at the bottom and working your way up.
- Wash about a 1/3 way up and an arm’s length across, moving your arm in circular motions.
- First use a cloth dampened in your cleaning solution and then rinse the area with a cloth dampened in clean water and then dry the area with the towel.
- Work your way up to the ceiling and repeat this method along the walls.
Be very careful if using a Ladder.
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