During the repair, no one is safe from paint, putty, or foam. And if the first two substances are familiar and familiar to many generations, then what to do with the latter is not always clear. How to clean things from traces of polyurethane foam?
Mounting Gun Cleaner
One of the easiest ways to remove the mounting foam from a thing is to use the liquid for mounting guns. This will help not only to clean the mounting gun, but also to remove the mounting mixture from clothing. Even if the foam has already dried, you can wash the item to its original cleanliness without damaging the fabric. To do this, you need:
- remove with the improvised means (knife, for example) the frozen part of the foam from the surface of the clothing;
- check the reaction of the fabric to the cleaner in an inconspicuous place to make sure that the paint on the clothes does not fade;
- wet the lesion with an “anti-foam” solution;
- attach to the right place and leave the fabric disk briefly soaked with solution;
- after the foam softens, wipe off the mark with a brush or hard side of the dish sponge;
- wash the thing in the machine with an increased dose of washing powder.
Important!
Use medical or household gloves to prevent your skin from being in contact with chemicals. This will protect you from possible allergic reactions and save the epidermis, in addition, washing your hands from chemicals is very difficult.
Solvents as an effective cleaning method
At home, even when you are doing the repair yourself, you may not have the liquid for the mounting gun at hand. Not everyone knows about it, and it is difficult to think of how to clean the stain. In this case, you can use a conventional paint thinner, white spirit or acetone. If you don’t have any of this and you don’t know how to remove dirt from your clothes, it’s better to wash the stain while it’s fresh. You can remove it with a nail polish remover containing acetone, then brush off the remainder of the stain and thus remove and wash it completely at home. Remember to test the tissue response to the product. The effect is better on non-hardened specks of foam.
Aerosol cleaner
An effective way to help you remove traces of mounting mixture. You can find this tool in a hardware or hardware store.
How to use:
- shake the can;
- spray on the problem area;
- forget about things for 20-25 minutes;
- rinse with warm running water;
- wash thing
If the stain cannot be removed completely, repeat.
Dimexide
A pharmaceutical product for external use is widely used to clean the surface, removing excess sealant and wiping the mounting mixture.
To wipe a stain:
- moisten it with a solution;
- attach a cotton pad or piece of cloth soaked in a product;
- wait until the frozen foam softens;
- wipe or brush out the remains;
- wash clothes, and the stain is removed.
Temperature use
High temperature quickly destroys the composition of the foam, you can wipe the stains from the clothes and clean, and then completely remove the pollution, keeping the item in the sun. But this method is not very effective, it takes too much time.
They also use cold:
- remove the stained thing in the cold, freeze;
- scrape off the mounting foam with a nail file;
- moisten the trace with acetone;
- wipe the leftovers.
It is not known how much better it is possible to clean the stained area of the tissue by freezing than with the usual attempt to remove the stain with acetone or solvent.