How To Remove Paint Stains From Wood

How to remove stray paint stains from wood

The reader's photo, of the chair with stray paint. (Reader photo)

Question: How can I remove white marks on the legs of a favorite armchair? Information technology is but v years former. I'one thousand guessing the marks were made by a vacuum cleaner, but it'due south puzzling because there are matching marks on the dorsum of the chair. I don't think it's paint rubbed off from the wall.

— Arlington

Answer: From the pictures you sent, it does announced that the white marks are pigment. If you're sure the chair didn't touch a newly painted wall, perhaps pigment transferred from a dropcloth draped over the chair? That tin happen when someone isn't careful to always keep the make clean side facing the surface that's being protected.

Whatever the crusade, your challenge now is to remove the paint without damaging the cease on the chair. Offset your handling on the back of the chair. One time you figure out what works, tackle the white spots on the legs in forepart.

Two relatively mild solvents that sometimes dissolve h2o-based pigment are alcohol and ammonia. For the alcohol, yous can use either the denatured type, which is sold equally a solvent in paint stores, or rubbing alcohol, which is available at pharmacies. Alcohol-based mitt sanitizer also works. Moisten a cloth with whatever solvent yous're using, press information technology against the pigment for a scrap, then rub. Use a nighttime-colored cloth so yous tin see if information technology picks up any of the white paint. If you run across a smear of white but need more muscle, switch from a cloth to a scrub pad.

If that doesn't work, try one of the products sold for lifting paint spatters, such as Goof Off Pro Strength, Oops All-Purpose Remover and Cleaner, Mötsenböcker'southward Lift Off #5 Latex Paint Remover or Krud Kutter Tough Task Citrus Remover.

If your efforts to remove the paint besides lighten the wood colour, touch upwards with a piddling woods stain, dabbed on with a small-scale paintbrush. Or use a product such as Minwax Wood Finish Stain Markers. (Examination first on the back of the chair.) Subsequently getting the color to match, or if yous just demand to deal with areas that look ho-hum because of all your rubbing, effort touching upwardly the wood end with shellac, which sticks to most piece of furniture finishes. After the shellac dries, rub lightly over the patches and the surrounding wood to even out the sheen.

Question: I have a small clear glass bullpen (circa 19th century) with a scratch on one side. Is there a company in the area that can smooth the scratch out of the glass?

— Arlington

Try Giovanni Nason, possessor of Giovanni Nason Drinking glass and Crystal Restoration Center in Potomac (301-340-2624, gnason@comcast.cyberspace). If the scratch is on the exterior, it should exist relatively easy to buff out, he said. He estimated the cost at $xl to $80, depending on how deep the scratch is. But if the scratch is on the inside, "it'southward a trouble," he said. A buffing bike couldn't reach in that location.

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