No matter where the stickers on your furniture came from, you yourself stuck them there, the children did their best, or maybe the previous owner, you should be prepared for the fact that sooner or later you will have to remove them from there anyway. Over time, dirt begins to accumulate under the edges of any sticker, it itself deteriorates, wears off and fades, and, of course, no one wants to have such “beauty” on their pieces of furniture. Further in the article, we will analyze in detail how to remove stickers from furniture, both from varnished and matte surfaces.
Easy Deletion Problems
As a rule, when you are completely tired of the sticker, you take it by the edge and start to tear it off. But on the surface of the furniture, most often, scraps of the lower layer remain, which are very firmly attached to the adhesive base.
Althoughsometimes the sticker can be removed completely. But after a while, a dark gray spot of dust settled on the remnants of the glue accumulates in its place, which sometimes looks worse than the old sticker itself. To prevent this from happening, the glue on the site of the former decoration should be removed immediately, which will help you with the following tips on how to remove old stickers from furniture.
Use hair dryer
Hair dryer is a good and effective thing. It is clear that in order to get rid of an unwanted sticker, you will have to heat it up so that the glue, as they say, flows, that is, liquefies. This will make it possible to remove it from the surface immediately and completely, and not in parts and pieces.
But this stick is double-edged, since excessive heating can adversely affect the varnished surface. But you can remove stickers from furniture with a hair dryer without ruining the polish:
The main thing is to put the hair dryer on the lowest possible heat. In this case, you will have to hold it over the sticker longer, but the varnish coating will not suffer
- When the sticker is noticeably warmed up (you can try to touch it with the fingers of your free hand), pry off the edge with some sharp object, trying not to scratch the varnish.
- Pull on the raised edge of the sticker. This should be done slowly and without sudden movements. Only in this case there is a possibility that it will be removed, taking with it all the glue without residue.
- Now you need to wash the surface with soapy water and wipe dry.
- But if you felt glue residue in this place when wiping with a napkin, you will have to use other methods.
Construction tape
How to remove adhesive from stickers from furniture if the hair dryer did not help? In this case, construction tape will come to the rescue. It is not recommended to use the usual one, since the glue moves away from it quite easily and can remain on the varnished surface, further aggravating the problem. And in construction adhesive tapes, the adhesive base adheres perfectly to the material and is unlikely to remain on a cabinet or chest of drawers. You need to act as follows:
- In the place where there are glue residues from the sticker, tightly glue a small piece of construction tape, leaving an edge for which we will tear it off.
- It is advisable to stick another strip on top to make the adhesive tape thicker and more difficult to break.
- Pull the free end of a piece of construction tape. At the moment of tearing off, it will move away from the surface, entraining the remaining adhesive from the sticker.
If that doesn't help, move on.
Sunflower oil
Those who are interested in how to quickly remove stickers from furniture should try sunflower oil. It will not damage the lacquered surface, and after the removal procedure, it can be easily washed off the cabinet door or cabinet with soapy water or dishwashing detergent. The oil will help dissolve some types of glue,used in stickers. The process will look like this:
- Apply sunflower oil on the sticker or its remains and wait until they are soaked. Typically, in 5-7 minutes, the sticker will absorb enough oil to come off the cabinet without any problems.
- In case you only need to get rid of sticky marks, we also apply oil on them, but here it will be enough to wait 2-3 minutes. During this time, the glue will become thinner, and it will be possible to start removing it.
- Slowly remove the rest of the sticker and wipe the surface. Wash it all off with soapy water, and then wipe and examine. If roughness is felt at this place under the finger, repeat the procedure. If the glue residue still could not be removed, we resort to the following remedy.
Nail polish remover
It should be used with care. Although it is designed to remove nail polish, and the effect of ordinary polish is not so strong, you should manipulate a cotton swab dipped in it very quickly.
How to remove a sticker from furniture with it:
- Apply liquid to swab.
- Press it to the sticker or remaining glue.
- If this is a sticker, then we wait a couple of minutes and begin to wash it with the same tampon.
- In the case of glue residue, it is easier - they will be erased from the surface instantly.
- Then wash the surface with soapy water or dishwashing detergent.
Done! It remains to wait until everything dries, and then rub the varnished surface to a shine and that's it. Now the place where the sticker was will be indistinguishable from the rest of the surface.
Unvarnished furniture
If the sticker is glued on a flat, unvarnished surface, in no case should you resort to the option with sunflower oil. It will be absorbed into the wood, as a result of which you will not erase it later even with sandpaper. Then how to remove the sticker from the furniture? After all, even by wetting it with nail polish remover, you can get an indelible stain on this place from the sticker soaked into the wood.
In most cases, a hair dryer does a great job here. An unvarnished surface can be heated even harder, as a result of which the sticker with untreated wood varnish will come off completely without residue.
Acetone, alcohol or vinegar
If the glue still remains in some incomprehensible way, it will help to dissolve and wipe it off: vinegar, gasoline, kerosene, alcohol or acetone. The only condition is that these liquids should not be oily, they should be clarified (crystal clear, like water). Otherwise, if you use ordinary gasoline, an indelible dark blot is sure to form at the place of mashing.
How else can you remove stickers from unvarnished wood furniture? Specialists can simply erase them with sandpaper, and then sand and polish this place. But why resort to such difficult methods if, as already mentioned, the sticker can be removed without residue from ordinary wood with a hair dryer?
Special sticker remover
To those who havefree time, you can not resort to improvised means, but, having walked to a specialized store, purchase a tool there designed to remove stickers. About how to remove stickers from furniture and any other surface with it, it is written on it.
Usually this is a spray can, and its application consists in applying the product to the sticker, waiting for a short time and then erasing the sticker from the surface along with the adhesive base, which this product dissolves perfectly without damaging the surface where the picture was glued. It's simple.
Conclusion
Hosts should remember that beauty from stickers is short-lived. And if you also take into account that the fashion for them is fading away every year, then you need to think about whether it is worth spoiling your furniture with such unsightly and hard-to-remove decorations.
