Removing Silicone

Remove silica,
Though it's very sticky

Silicone is used in the construction, repairs, as a household. It is a reliable sealant that can penetrate the smallest pores, and it is responsible for its adhesion, adhesive qualities. So, by careless handling it is easy to soil clothes, furniture, walls and floor, tiles that is all that is nearby.

Cleaning Clothes from Silicone

If silicone is not yet absorbed, get next to the tissue, i.e., a spot is really fresh, then remove it all very easy. The soiled clothing should be stretched in the contamination place to delete the dirt. The spot stretched over the surface and then this wrap remains only to pry up with something and remove. Also, it is easily removed it out the basis for a couple of hours laid in the freezer.

Silicon can be removed with the materials at hand if have barely begun to absorb in clothing. For example, it may be done with 70-percents acetic essence. The spot soaked in vinegar on for half an hour and then remnants of silicone remove by the usual rag.

Silicone can be removed with a technical or a medical alcohol, as well as ordinary vodka: a stain of the sealant moistened by alcohol and begin to rub the brush. Silicone adhesive is gradually pulled out from pores in the clothes and rolled up into the spherules. Note that you need to work in a respirator and rubber gloves and safety goggles as the acetic acid in a concentration are very acrid and burning.

Amide silicone sealant can be easily removed − with acetone, white spirit, gasoline. This spot is rubbed with a sponge with the same solvent and leave on the same 30 minutes. After this, a thing rubbed manually (need to check whether the sealant has stayed in or the washing machine will turn it in old spot).

If you are not satisfied with the means at hand, on sale there are special formulations with instructions for using.

Removing Silicone from Other Surfaces

If silicone has long been in contact with any surface, even glass, it is quite difficult to remove it, as it penetrates the smallest pores of such surface. Silicone does not constitute a real danger of furniture pollution, but as being a sealant is used, mainly, in the bathroom, but sometimes in the kitchen sink area. So you need to attend to the problem of removing the silicone with tiles, metal and glass.

To remove it needs to have detergents (it can be dish-washing liquid or usual washing powder), blades and rags, white spirit. First, a rag, dampened with the white spirit, is rubbed in the silicone spot and you are waiting for half a minute. The silicone spot takes on a jelly-like state. Then, the blade is taken and silicone mechanically scraped off the glass or the tile. Usually after removing silicone there is a grease stain remained, which is also rubbed by the same white spirit, and then have a dry cloth. Then, the place of the former spot is cleaned with the selected detergent (the best is a dish-washing liquid − it perfectly removes fat).

Amide silicone sealant can be easily removed − with acetone, white spirit, gasoline. This spot is rubbed with a sponge with the same solvent and leave on the same 30 minutes. After this, a thing rubbed manually (need to check whether the sealant has stayed in or the washing machine will turn it in old spot).

If you are not satisfied with the means at hand, on sale there are special formulations with instructions for using.