Uh-oh. I just sharpie'ed my whiteboard!
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I talk about everything to do with the office and today I'm going to talk about how to get rid of that pesky
permanent marker on the whiteboard
Whiteboards are probably one of my favorite tools next to Post-It notes for collaborating and brainstorming but inevitably
Somebody will come to your office and use a sharpie marker
on the dry erase board and it becomes a bit of a nuisance because of course it's hard to erase. In this video
I'm going to share with you three different ways to get rid of the pesky
permanent marker on the whiteboard. To demonstrate this I'm going to draw three different boxes using my permanent sharpie marker.
Alright as you can see here, I have three boxes, of course
I used my permanent marker on there. The first method of getting rid of permanent marker on your whiteboard is using rubbing alcohol
Now you don't want to use just any rubbing alcohol. This one specifically is
99% alcohol. There's others that are 70% pretty much anything over 90% alcohol
will do the trick on erasing the permanent marker on your whiteboard. So for this
let's just open it up. All I do is dab a little bit on my microfiber cloth
And we'll get rid of this first box and it comes off quite nicely
There you go works like a dream
That's the alcohol
The second method if you have this lying around in your boardroom is just using hand sanitizer
The hand sanitizers will work. Maybe not as quickly as the rubbing alcohol, but it will work
So let's squirt a little bit on our cloth
And let's get rid of
The marker here
The hand sanitizer works quite nicely as you can see works really well
But it's not just not as it's a little bit more thicker
I guess then the alcohol, you know, it works quite nicely. You can see here
There's no residue left behind. The fun way is an easy one
Now if you don't have rubbing alcohol or hand sanitizer at your board room
Chances are I'm going to guess you'll probably have a dry erase marker because you are of course whiteboarding.
Now all you have to do in this case is take your dry erase marker and
go right over top
like so so essentially the solvent in the dry erase marker will
Get rid of it as you can see here comes off cleanly, but it smudges a little bit more
then the other two methods but
Looks pretty clean to me. Now out of the three methods
my preference is
using rubbing alcohol
Even better if you bought a little spray bottle
What I would do is always keep the rubbing alcohol in a little spray bottle next your white board
So if there's anybody that comes out and you know uses a permanent marker on the white board
it's not a big deal anymore because you all have to do a spray some rubbing alcohol right on the white board itself and
My suggestion to you would be using a microfiber cloth
I do feel that the microfiber cloth performs way better on a white board because it does collect the dust
And of course, it is dry erase so I do find that it works way way better
So give it a try if you feel so daring take your sharpie marker
Put it on the white board. You can either use alcohol
Hand sanitizer and
finally your regular Expo dry erase marker and all three methods will remove your
Permanent marker from the whiteboard. Thanks for joining me today guys
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