How to remove greasy stains from the wallpaper?

How nice it is after just done repairs to admire the updated walls and how offensive when suddenly ugly greasy spots appear on them. Most often, such troubles happen in the kitchen, where food is prepared, and no one is safe from oil splashes or any other incidents. And if in the house small naughty people grow up, then the probability of the appearance of different types of spots increases many times. You need to be prepared for any troubles, and then no spots will be scary to you. Let's find out how to remove greasy spots from the wallpaper.

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Useful Tips:

• If you noticed greasy spots on the wallpaper, you should try to remove them as soon as possible, because they will attract dust, and after a while will become very noticeable. And to bring them out will be even more difficult.
• It’s easiest to work with vinyl-based wallpapers or nonwoven. They have a special structure that prevents moisture from penetrating deep into, and they can be washed. Care for such wallpaper is easy. Everything is more complicated if you have thin paper wallpapers. Here it is necessary to act carefully and carefully so as not to damage them. In such cases, when using liquids during cleaning, it is better not to rub the surface, but only slightly moisten it, since the embossed paper is very soft, the pattern may suffer.
• If you are not sure about the quality of your paper wallpaper, then it is better to use dry cleaning methods.

Important! Before any cleaning method, do a little testing: apply the cleaning agent to a small area in an inconspicuous place to make sure that the coating does not suffer during cleaning.

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Display greasy spots from the wallpaper

How to remove a greasy stain from paper wallpaper? These wallpapers require more gentle methods.

a piece of chalk

How to remove greasy stains from wallpaper with chalk?

1. Pour the chalk to a powdery state.
2. Apply powder to a greasy stain. Chalk absorbs particles of fat.
3. The remains of chalk can be brushed off with a soft brush.

Important! To speed up the process, you can pick up the powder in a cotton cloth and attach to the problem area, and then iron it with a warm iron.

Starch

Another effective way to combat greasy marks on paper and other wallpapers is starch, or rather, its mixture with water. You need to act like this:

1. Add a little water to the starch to make a thick slurry.
2. Apply this slurry to the contaminated area and leave for a day.
3. Dried starch can be brushed off.

Soda

There is another easy way to remove greasy stains from the wallpaper. Usual baking soda, which is in any kitchen, will help us:

1. Mix soda with water until a thick paste is obtained.
2. Wipe the stained area with this paste. It can be applied with a clean, dry cloth, sponge or rag.
3. When the soda dries and absorbs fat, you can brush it off with a soft brush.

Important! This is a universal remedy with which you can remove many spots. We talked about this in detail in our separate review. "Remove stain with soda".

Bread

Soft and fresh bread can also provide all possible assistance in removing stains of this kind:

• A piece of bread corresponding to a spot of size must be pressed to the surface and held for some time.
• If necessary, the procedure can be repeated, not forgetting to change the bread.

Heat treatment

A greasy stain can be removed from the wallpaper with a warm iron and napkin. You can also use toilet paper.In this way, fresh spots are best removed:

1. Attach a tissue to the problem area.
2. Heat the iron to a temperature of about 40 degrees and iron the area through a napkin until all the fat has passed to the napkin.
3. Do not forget to periodically change the napkin.
4. After this procedure, you can wipe the traces with an ordinary eraser. Only this must be done very carefully so as not to get a hole in the wallpaper.

Important! When using the iron, monitor the temperature and avoid overheating. Be careful, and if the napkin is stuck to the wallpaper, do not pull it with force, but moisten it with water. This happens if the iron is too hot or you are ironing the cloth too long.

Gasoline Plus Starch

If no method has helped, then you can use heavy artillery. To do this, you need refined gasoline and starch:

1. Pour two teaspoons of refined gasoline with starch until a thick mixture is obtained.
2. Apply to problem areas and lightly rub.
3. Remainder of the mixture with a brush or a clean cloth.

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Other oil residue removal methods

The following methods are not suitable for thin paper wallpapers, but they work fine if you have wallpaper based on vinyl or non-woven. With these wallpapers, fresh greasy stains can simply be washed off with a damp sponge. But if the stain is old, then this focus will not work for you - here you will have to use more aggressive means.

Detergent

A grease stain can be washed from the wallpaper using detergents such as dishwashing liquid, washing powder, liquid soap:

1. Dilute means in a small amount of water.
2. Blot a sponge or soft cloth in it.
3. Wipe the problem area, just do not overdo it.
4. Rinse off any remaining product with a clean, damp sponge.
5. If necessary, the procedure can be repeated.

Laundry soap

This universal tool will help us in the case when the question arises, how to clean the fat from painted wallpapers:

1. Soap a sponge with household soap.
2. Apply the resulting foam to the problem area and rub lightly.
3. Rinse off the foam with a clean, damp sponge.
4. If necessary, repeat the procedure.

Important! If all the methods used are unsuccessful, do not worry. There are other options for hiding the stains on the wallpaper. We talked about them in detail in our special posts:

• What can be hung on the wall?
• Wallpaper Paintings.

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In this article, we have offered you different ways for any situations with wall coverings. Now, nothing will stop you from keeping them clean for as long as you don’t get tired of their design.