First try to scrape the surface of the sticker away if you can. Then spray the sticker with a lubricant, with something that you would use for hinges or for car parts. You can either scrape the most of the sticker out with a knife or with your finger nail. Or if there is very little of the sticker residue like I had just wiping firmly with a cloth will do the trick. Somehow the lubricant makes the sticker more brittle and also it allows you to get under the sticky surface easily.
Once you've got the sticky stuff out you can wipe the whole area with a regular cleaning product.
This lubricant removal trick works really well for those foamy double sided tapes that are sometimes used for attaching things on the walls. I very succesfully removed huge amounts of those from our kitchen tiles few years back.
Great tip! I hate sticker residue on anything and I'll always scrub like crazy to get rid of it but sometimes I am afraid to scrub to hard. Have a great weekend!
ReplyDeleteWith the lubricant you don't have to scrub that hard at all.
DeleteSome years ago a "Gelbsticker" (no idea what these are called in English, but it's a yellow super sticky piece of plastic that you can put into your plants against tiny flies, see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelbtafel) got stuck on my cats betty (don't ask ;-) ) and the packaging said you can remove it with white spirit or oil. As I didn't want to clean my cat with spirit I used some vegetable oil and it worked pretty well - I guess for the same reasons as lubricant works...ever since I remove residue from stickers and labels with oil.
ReplyDeleteOil makes lots of sense. I need to try that next time. I know I'm sick but I like the smell of the lubricant so I like to use it :)
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