How to Get Water Color off the wall

[MeMeMookieeee]

My kid has her own wall and its covered with water color pens and crayon. I
mean COVERED.

I'm moving and want to paint and am unsure how to get all this off the wall.

If I paint, will the watercolor pens bleed through?

Do I need to seal it first, if so with what?

ANY Help appreciated to mememo...@aol.com as I don't read this NG much

THANKS
Christine

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Glad I'm not the only one with a budding artist. My kids did the same to
there bedrooms.....dining room...and living room. I repainted them. We had
marker on our wells and that bled through, so I'm assuming your pens may to
the same. As for the crayon post of it covered but needed a second coat. I
have an easy way of getting crayon of the wall. Take a big rectangular
eraser and erase. Sounds silly but it works. Bleach water helps fade, or
remove markers. I was also repainted with Kids room paint so I wouldn't have
to worry in the future.

Mother of 4

MeMeMookieeee <mememo...@aol.com> wrote in message
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[TheMommieHere]

If you go to your local paint store, you should be able to find TSP (tri-sodium
phosphate) - a chemical used in detergent that painter's use to clean walls.
Mix it according to directions with water and wash down the wall. That will
probably get off a lot more than you think it will - and Simple Green sprayed
undiluted and allowed to sit will get off a good part of the crayon. After
that, I would paint the wall with a good oil-based primer like Kilz, then paint
over it or leave it for the next homeowner.

My kids decided that the antique wallpaper mural needed some new creative
touches. We had moved a dresser in front of it to make it (so we thought)
inaccessible, a problem they solved by climbing up on chairs. Eventually, we
got the "washable" crayon off, with the advice of the guy in the paint store.

You have my sympathy!

Aka Nee Nee
Official Nee Nee to Jen-Jen, formerly the Monster Baby
and Kay-Kay, formerly the Lizard Baby
("Hey girls, it's TOO quiet in there")("Get your feet out of your sister's
oatmeal")

[Laura Killian]

The Crayola website has a whole section on removing their products from
places they shouldn't be. The site's a pain to get around in (or maybe
I'm intolerant - programmers hate mediocre software more than other
people do) but here's the direct link:

http://www.crayola.com/canwehelp/staintips/stain.cfm

Best of luck!

Laura K.
(who can't keep the little one from decorating herself with markers or
the big one from melting crayons in the easy-bake oven...)

[H Schinske]

>The Crayola website has a whole section on removing their products from
>places they shouldn't be. The site's a pain to get around in

I've heard that they recommend WD-40 to get crayon off.

--Helen

[Tracey]

Try "Simple Green" I buy it in concentrate form at one of the warehouse
clubs and use it for almost all of my cleaning.

MeMeMookieeee <mememo...@aol.com> wrote in message
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[TheMommieHere]

>Try "Simple Green" I buy it in concentrate form at one of the warehouse
>clubs and use it for almost all of my cleaning.
>

It's amazing stuff, isn't it? I started using it years and years ago when I was
moving into a place with a really filthy stove, and decided that if it worked
on my car's tires, it might work will on the stove crud. The only recommended
use that I `don't` use it for is washing windows - no matter what I do, it
streaks. But anything that has oil or wax or grease comes right off with the
stuff.

I have some major allergies and sensitive skin and I can't use a lot of
commercial cleaners (like pine-based stuff, or Top Job or Fantasik or 409)
without wearing gloves and a face mask. The Simple Green has never bothered me,
and it works. I even just used it to shampoo a carpet (because I was out of the
normal detergent) in the kitchen hall that was truely filthy from the kids and
animals, and it worked just fine!

[Rosalie B.]

"Tracey" <Pep...@Prodigy.net> wrote:

>
>Try "Simple Green" I buy it in concentrate form at one of the warehouse
>clubs and use it for almost all of my cleaning.

Not sure if it is still true, but Simple Green used to have a different
formula in Canada from what it was in the US>

Also the name is misleading a bit. It isn't simple and it isn't safer to
drink or anything than any other cleaner.

grandma Rosalie

[brid...@ix.netcom.com]

If it hasn't set in too much yet, you can try blotting it or using very
mild soap on a sponge and scrubbing lightly. I'm assuming you're
talking about kid's watercolor - the cake stuff - and not the stuff in
the tubes. I am a graphic artist, and I know that the tube stuff is
more concentrated. Get that on clothes, and you're out of luck
(speaking from experience).

Bridget in Connecticut
Mom to Patrick John
Born 2/13/2000 @ 9:41PM
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[mgord...@my-deja.com]

Chris, if you go to a paint store, they will tell you what to wash the
walls with. You can buy TSP (trisodium phosphate) in many places and
that will remove anything greasy such as crayon that might prevent
paint from adhering. If the markers are water based, a scrub with TSP
in water (wear gloves) should be enough before painting to prevent
bleed through.

MEG