Question

Tips on cleaning black walls? When i use soapy water - the finish looks like chalk board when you’ve wiped off the chalk! Marks look white. Painting it every year or changing colour is not an option Thanks

Answer 1

The only thing I’ve found helps is working in small sections. I use 2 buckets of water (one soapy, one clean) a sponge and lots of microfibre cloths, I wash with soapy water using the sponge, rinse with clean water and a microfibre cloth and then immediately dry with another microfibre cloth for each section. Make sure you constantly change out your clean water and microfibre cloths every couple of sections.  

Comments

@phanerozoic thanks thats kinda what i do now, very time consuming  

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@periodontal19 it’s a real pain and I’m seriously considering changing to a lighter colour (or embracing the ‘chalkboard effect’ by letting my kids loose with actual chalks ) Maybe try a little less soap? I actually use a sulphate free shampoo (just because I love the smell) but maybe that helps too ‍♀️

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@phanerozoic its at work so cant change the colour now - with this lockdown ive managed to paint it again but dont want it to look messy for 6 years like it has the last 6  

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Non scratch. Dishmatic filled with your choice of solution then have a bucket of warm water and a tea towel or microfiber cloth and clean with dishmatic then dry with tea towel the bucket is to dip dishmatic in to clean head

Answer 2

I would give it a coat of clear matt varnish wipes down fantastic xx

Answer 3

Use sugar soap

Comments

@gesualdo7 ive tried sugar soap on many things at home but haven’t tried it at work - so will give it a go, thanks