just imagine your dream home - beautiful carpet, freshly painted walls, and then -
you move in! yes that's right, no matter how hard we try,
life happens, and marks end up on our freshly painted walls. So today I want to
show you how I get marks off the walls so you can keep your dream home looking
dreamy.
Well hi everyone my name is Belle, and welcome to Hampton Your House. My channel
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that you will know when a new video is up. So I happen to be rather experienced
at getting marks off the walls! I have three small boys, and with all of the
wrestling and exploding and lightsaber fights that go on in our house, it seems
like they just look at a wall and new marks appear. I think also because we have
modern matte-finish painted walls basically anything that even lightly
brushes past the wall unfortunately you will leave a mark. I feel like the older,
shinier type of paint is slightly easier to clean as well but modern, matte
finish paint seems to be so thin that if you start rubbing at the mark you're
likely to take the paint off with it. But also here is a huge word of warning -
don't use a Magic Eraser to get marks off the walls! It's like very fine sandpaper
and the paint will come off your wall - and I say this from experience. So here's
how I get marks off my walls every month while still protecting the paint work.
Yes, that's right - I clean marks off my walls with a toothbrush and toothpaste.
Here's how it works. Grab a bowl of hot water, a toothbrush
with hard bristles, some toothpaste and a white cloth. You want the cloth to be
white because coloured cloths will sometimes transfer their colour onto walls which
you really don't want. Give the wall a quick wipe over with a damp cloth. This
should be enough to remove some of the everyday dirty marks.
For anything that doesn't come off with water, get the toothbrush, put some
toothpaste on it, dip it into the hot water and then start scrubbing the mark
on the wall. This will get almost all marks off - pencil marks, coloured marks from
painted toys, tough black scuff marks etc.
Some marks will come off very quickly, while others may take a little more
scrubbing.
Now with pen marks, toothpaste may get rid of it but if it's been there for a
while it may not. I had heard that rubbing alcohol will take pen marks off
but I have tried it, and on my walls at least, it does take the pen mark off - but
it also takes the paint off. So if you have a great suggestion for how to get pen marks
off walls, please leave it below in the comments section, I would love to hear it!
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