Barb Van Stensel


Paint Speckles - One of the worst nightmare any woman can have, besides the nightmare my Mom had when the electrician installed a GFCI outlet ever 12" under her kitchen cabinets, are those nasty paint speckles.  No matter how one tries to be neat, clean edges, somehow under the microscope of the eye, there they stand as big as daylight ....

 

How do you remove them?  Easy formula:  Windex.  Not any other window cleaner but WINDEX.  Spray, let sit for a couples minutes and it releases those little spots right up from hardwood floors (yes!), granite countertops, wood trim, carpeting ... yes, even carpeting but you need to test a sample of the carpeting so as to make sure that the Windex doesn't "highlight" the area.  Rarely, but I am a safety girl.

 

Just something simple to make your life easier when you think you have roughly 5,000 of those little speckles flying on every nook and cranny in your home.

 

 

 

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Posted by Barb Van Stensel on 06/05/2012 02:50 PM   Comments (4)   Home Improvement Tips in the Home Improvement Channel   diy with barb van the redesigning agent, paint speckles, diy ideas  
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