Get white water rings off without using oil, chemical, or polishing products. We've heard from AT reader dollhouse that you can do this using a cotton cloth and a dry iron.
Place a cotton cloth directly over the stain and with a dry iron (NO STEAM!) press down for several seconds on the cloth. Remove and check the stain. Keep doing until the watermarks are completely gone. It could take a minute or two to get the stain out completely.
Yeah, well, just be careful with the veneered furniture, will ya?
view Justin (the first one)'s profile
What I have always done is just use toothpaste. Get Paste toothpaste - gel won't work - and cover the watermark with it. Leave for awhile, maybe a few hours, and wipe clean. I usually leave it 2 or 3 hours; it has always worked.
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you'll think im crazy, but this works 100%...
put a tablespoon of mayonnaise in a dish or glass. smoke a cigarette and ash into the mayonnaise. mix the ash and mayo together. with a clean cloth, massage the paste onto the water spot. if its very bad, spread a layer of the paste over the spot and let it sit for several hours. wipe the area clean and you'll never see the spot again!
i swear by old Southern tricks...
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goodnightdean...you might still be crazy, but I've heard of that one too--thanks for the reminder!
view kate's profile
What is the heat setting on the iron?
view KD's profile
Goodnightdean is right. Many antique restoration shops use that technique. If it especially bad a lot of hard rubbing on the spot while heating with a blow dryer should fix it. Bye the way if you don't smoke you can use wood ash.
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that is such a crazy trick. i wonder whats the chemistry behind it!
view olya's profile
told to me a very, very, very, very long time ago.
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Can someone please delete ion's comment. It is grossly offensive. What are you, 12 years old? What a jerk!
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