Dr Seuss Bathroom Accessories - This article is about the wall stickers and wall decals are made from vinyl. Many sites talk about how to put this on the wall, but there may be little help for how to remove the wall stickers.
Methods to remove wall stickers and wall decals will remain the same, but maybe a little more difficult on certain surfaces and depending on the size of the wall sticker. Let's look at some methods to remove.
Removing from the wall
Painted walls at the highest risk from damage when removing wall decals. This means you need to take some care and focus on avoiding this damage. It is possible to remove wall stickers from even the worst walls.
worst walls are those that had a poor paint job to begin with. One that has multiple layers of paint and coating is not set up between coats of paint. Or that has air bubbles underneath the paint.
1. Work slowly and do not rip, snatch or pull the wall sticker
2. Using a hair dryer, heat the vinyl directly at the edge you remove
3. When vinyl feels warm gently lift edge (you might need to get a finger nail under)
4. as you roll or pull the vinyl away from the wall, you need to heat the next section of vinyl directly in front of your part lifted. Basically you are working gradually heating and lift.
5. If you can visually see or you can feel the bubbles under the paint surface you need to take care lifting over this area. If there is a second person, you can ask them to control the hair dryer while you use your hands to press on the bubble as you lift the vinyl off.
6. Continue until all the vinyl removed.
7. If there is residual gum (not common on walls) then wipe the surface with acetate based cleaner such as nail polish.
TOP TIP: Pull or roll the vinyl back against itself like it is being folded back. Do not pull the vinyl out from the wall at 90degrees as this will put more pressure on the paint.
Removing from glass and metal
When removing wall decals from glass or metal, these problems are not normally related to surface damage. It can be much more difficult to remove from these surfaces because the vinyl that sticks well to them. If you have a paint scraper or metal edged scraper this will be useful, otherwise it will have to nail your fingers.
1. Heat the vinyl directly in front of the area you erase.
2. Peel / pick at the edge and exciting. vinyl tends to tear as you do this, then you heat the next bit and remove.
3. Removing from these surfaces is more likely to leave a residue. Dealing with it in the end, first remove all the solid vinyl by heating and interesting.
4. To clean the surface you will need an acetate or orange based cleaner that can lift the remaining glue. There are lots of purpose built cleaners for this, or simply use nail polish remover.
TOP TIP : If you hold the vinyl closer to the surface it is less likely to tear. For example, if you are interesting and exciting moment, pieces of vinyl \\ \"free \\\" the longer it is more likely to tear, just move your hands back closer to the surface to reduce the possibility of damage.
By working with the patient and not forcing the vinyl on the surface you will be able to remove the wall stickers and wall decals without problems.
