How do I clean candle wax off of a wall?
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Heat and Detergent in equal measures. If you can heat the area and then hold kitchen towel over the area that will take most of it. Then detergent (washing up liquid) will do the rest.
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this is gonna sound weird but it works...use a hair dryer to melt the wax...surprisingly it works...don't ask how i figured it out.
this is gonna sound weird but it works...use a hair dryer to melt the wax...surprisingly it works...don't ask how i figured it out.
Scratch off what amount you can.
Then take a piece of brown paper (bag), lay over the area and heat it up good with a blow dryer. Keep pressing the paper against the area as the wax begins to melt from the heat.
The paper will "wick" the wax onto it.
Remove the final residue by rubbing it out.
Scrape as much off as you can, while it is hard, then use a heat gun, or a hair dryer, to remove the rest.
It will probably leave a stain due to the wax, but you can use some cleaner to get most of it off.
Then you need to use a good primer, like Kilz and then touch up paint.
That should do the trick.
Not sure if this will work but I used to use this method to get candle wax off of a table cloth and doilees (however you spell it.. those round, croched things your grandmother has on her table and dresser!)...
Heat up your iron... take a paperbag and rip it or cut it so you have a sheet about the size of a piece of legal paper... put it on the wall over top of the wax.... place the hot iron on the paper and lightly run it over top of the paper a few times... move the paperbag piece around so the wax lifts.... being careful not to re-melt the wax you've already removed on to another spot on the wall... try using several different paper bags.
You can also try using a lamp with a 60w or 100w bulb and a table knife or even a spoon... heat the wax and lift it with the utensil.
Good luck!