Home care question!

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 12:47 pm

How can I clean (cooking) oil stains off of a painted wall?

Just hypothetically speaking, you understand.

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 3:19 pm

What type of paint is it?

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 4:52 pm

It is: white paint!

gsdgsd · Post by **gsdgsd** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 5:06 pm

Have you tried the winning combination of Formula 409 + rag?

Casual Observer · Post by **Casual Observer** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 5:46 pm

At the dollar store, there is a cleaner called something like "Awsome" or "Awsome Orange". It works great on grease.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 5:47 pm

gsdgsd wrote:Have you tried the winning combination of Formula 409 + rag?

Formula what now?

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 5:49 pm

Casual Observer wrote:At the dollar store, there is a cleaner called something like "Awsome" or "Awsome Orange". It works great on grease.

This is why I never go to the dollar store with children. It can affect their spelling for years.

(Of course, I never go anywhere with children, so it's not a problem.)

(Then again, I never go anywhere with anyone, so there's really very little to worry about here.)

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 5:52 pm

White paint should remove the stain.

Vitriola · Post by **Vitriola** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 6:06 pm

Get off as much as you can with a solvent, then spray on bleach. That's what takes out mildew stains, might work on darkened grease stains.

Shut up, Bruce.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 6:56 pm

I think I'll make "Games" the topic of the first base and "Celebrity Home Care & Monologues" the topic of the second base. I don't mean to start 2005 off on a wrong note or anything, but topics like these are why nobody posted on your website after Finsternis and I got finished skullfucking it.

But I wish you the best of luck leaving!!!

Knuckles the CLown · Post by **Knuckles the CLown** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 7:01 pm

Vitriola wrote:Get off as much as you can

Whoa you should have stopped there. Semen is an excellent cover up and is free and fun to make!!

Knuckles the CLown · Post by **Knuckles the CLown** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 7:04 pm

How did you get cooking oil on the wall?Did one of your "creations" walk off the pan and try to murder you for preparing them in such a horrific way.

Octopus on burrito=You will die for this injustice!"
SPLATT!!!!

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 7:13 pm

If you weren't so mean to Ben's dishes he wouldn't be running for his life right now.

gsdgsd · Post by **gsdgsd** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 7:54 pm

pinback wrote:Formula what now?

4-0-9. It's in many fine stores, including, I imagine, King Soopers. Lovely white bottle with purple lettering.

chris · Post by **chris** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 8:02 pm

I'd be surprised if any kind of household cleaner will work...oil has a tendency to soak in, and once the paint is ruined in this way, the only solution is to repaint. You might try a little mineral spirits on it first....it's sometimes used to thin some types of oil used in woodworking (specifically tung oil), so it may work on your walls (the spirits shouldn't affect the paint itself, assuming it's latex).

If you have to repaint, seal the oil stains with a shellac based primer (like Zinnser BIN) before painting...that'll keep the oil from bleeding through the new paint.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 8:47 pm

Knuckles the CLown wrote:How did you get cooking oil on the wall?Did one of your "creations" walk off the pan and try to murder you for preparing them in such a horrific way.

It was... cat-related.

I'd rather say nothing more about it at this point.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 8:48 pm

If you have to repaint, seal the oil stains with a shellac based primer (like Zinnser BIN) before painting...that'll keep the oil from bleeding through the new paint.

Well, I'm outta this dump in a week anyhow, I just don't want it to affect my security deposit.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 7:18 pm

I wash the walls now..but I never sem to get them clean.

Use a utilty knife (the kind found on major airlines) and cut out the section of wall with the offending stain. Replace the hole with standard USG drywall and yellow fibertape. Use a generous amount of joint compound and sand to a smooth finish. repaint as desired.

This is 100% guarenteed to get rid of ugly, cat related, oil stains.

THE
YOU WERE COOKING
CHINESE, WEREN'T YOU
AARDVARK

nessman · Post by **nessman** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 9:58 am

Put a picture of your mom over it.

chris · Post by **chris** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 10:03 am

AArdvark wrote:Use a utilty knife (the kind found on major airlines) and cut out the section of wall with the offending stain. Replace the hole with standard USG drywall and yellow fibertape. Use a generous amount of joint compound and sand to a smooth finish. repaint as desired.

You're assuming that his walls are made of drywall, not plaster/lath.