How to Remove Household Messes

How to Remove Mold from Walls: Mold can be found on plants, dry leaves, and on about every other organic material. The problem is when it gets on your walls...so just how do you remove mold from walls? Read more...

How to Remove Wallpaper Borders: So you bought a new house. You love everything about it except for the ugly wallpaper borders in almost every room. Time to get them off the wall. Removing wallpaper borders is not an easy task, but with a few good tips and some elbow grease, you can get the job done. Read more...

How to Remove Crayon from Carpet & Walls: Crayons are a wonderful tool for little ones to express their creativity, and you'll proudly display their efforts on your refrigerator for years. But accidental artwork on other surfaces around the home are not things you want hanging around. Read more...

How to Remove a Permanent Marker Stain: Due to the unique contents of various inks, not to mention the color and materials of a garment, no one solution works for all clothing or all types of markers. Read more...

How to Remove Red Wine Stains: Three of the things that can ruin a carefully planned dinner party, are red wine on the tablecloth, red wine on the carpet, and red wine on you! Read more...

How to Remove Stickers: It can be really aggravating to get a new picture frame or similar item with a stick-on price tag, and rush it home to put the photo in, only to discover that the price tag, or its remnants, won't come off! Read more...

How to Remove Coffee Stains: Ideally, you take the garment right off, spray it with a laundry pre-soak, give that a minute to work, and throw it in the washer. But as with all stains, air dry the item, in case the stain has not been totally removed. Heat will only set it more firmly in the fabric. Read more...

How to Remove Wax from Carpet: Depending where it falls, clean up can be as easy as scraping it off a tile floor, or as heart stopping as watching it hit the new carpet in your living room. Read more...

How to Remove Gum from Carpet: It's amazing how a piece of gum can find its way from a child's pocket or the edge of a sandwich plate and onto the carpet, where it often ends up being mashed in by traveling feet, before anyone notices. Read more...

How to Remove Blood from Carpet: Whether it was a "friendly" wrestling match between teenagers, or a toddler that fell against something while running, you now have a bloodstain on your carpet, and are wondering whether it's going to come out. The answer is yes! Read more...

How to Remove Mold: Cleaning mold on windows or around doors is relatively simple, and involves only a good scrubbing with soap and water. Be sure not to use a soap that contains ammonia or other related chemicals, as it is always wise to follow up your initial cleaning with a bleach washing to kill and disinfect the surface. Read more...

How to Remove Candle Wax: Considering the care most people use around candles, it sometimes makes you wonder how we manage to spill candle wax on such a variety of surfaces, not all of which can be treated the same for removal. Read more...

How to Remove Rust from Carpets and Clothes: Sometimes a little water spill on the carpet seems like a negligible thing, until you move the metal-based floor lamp, Christmas tree stand, or other metallic furniture, and discover that you now have a neat little rust mark where the water went. Read more...

How to Remove Paint from Floors, Glass, Carpet and Hair: There isn't a DIY (do-it-yourself) in the world, who hasn't decided to paint something indoors or out, and had to deal with the consequences of splatters or spills, afterwards. Read more...

How to Remove Super Glue: Once accounted the greatest invention since sliced bread, Super Glue quickly became the bane of many householders with drips, spills and accidental contact that couldn't be broken. Read more...

How to Remove Hard Water Stains: If you happen to live in a location where there is a high level of lime, magnesium and calcium in your water supply, then you have what is referred to as hard water. Read more...

How to Remove Latex Paint: Sometimes, despite your best efforts with drop cloths or plastic sheets, you can still end up with spills on your carpet. And even though latex is a water based paint, it also contains pigment and polymer resins, which means it's not going to be a piece of cake to get off, but it can be done. Read more...

How to Remove Crazy Glue: When the new super bonding glues first came out, they were hailed as the best thing since sliced bread. Until someone got their hand stuck to the breadbox. Read more...

How to Remove Water Spots: The most mysterious rings in the world are crop circles, supposedly left by the landing of alien ships, and the water circles from glasses left on the surface of a wood table when there were perfectly good drink coasters right there. Read more...

How to Remove Limescale: If you live where there is hard water, you may find yourself dealing with a disgusting, white residue on taps, washers and even kettles, that is so hard, it looks like you'll need a chisel to get it off. Thankfully, the solution is much easier than that. Read more...

How to Get Rid of Debt: There are many reasons that people get into debt. They may start out with a reasonable debt load from basic necessities such as a home mortgage and car loan, but that can quickly multiply and run out of control according to the individual's or family's spending habits. Read more...

How to Remove Medicine from the Carpet: While these instructions are primarily for cough syrup, which often has a thick, sugary base, it will work for other medicines as well, including liquid antibiotics, and over-the-counter diarrhea medicines. Read more...

How to Remove Car Paint From a Vinyl Floor: The closest thing we can equate car paint to, is an oil-based house paint, because it is more than likely that the can it came in, calls for some kind of solvent to clean up spills. Unfortunately, this would mean stripping the finish off your vinyl. Read more...

How to Remove Fingerpaint from Carpet: If you have a budding Leonardo da Vinci, but they've been budding where there is carpet, and some of their fingerpaint is now on the floor, don't panic. A piece of priceless artwork is well worth the little work it will take to clean up the mess. Read more...

How to Remove Wallpaper: How hard it is to prepare a wall-papered room for painting or re-papering, really depends on the type of paper that is already up there. If it is the strippable kind, you're in luck, because that requires little more than lifting a corner, peeling off the panels, and scraping the remainder of the glue off before washing the walls. Read more...

How to Remove Crazy Glue From a Ring: Depending on the surface of the ring, and whether it is actually on any stones that are set in it, this can be a very tricky situation. The shine of gold can be damaged by even "lesser" chemicals in hairsprays, hand creams, and other common solutions. Read more...