How to remove super glue?

Many people, working with glue, faced some awkward situations. For example, when the glue disfigured your favorite T-shirt, which they wanted to wear to take a walk after work. After this, a logical question arises, how to remove glue from clothes and whether it is possible to do this at all. You can cope with such a difficult task - exactly how, we will tell in this article.

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How and how to remove stains from glue?

Do not immediately contact a dry cleaner, because you can remove the glue from clothes at home using improvised means. The most important thing, of course, is to choose such means that could defeat pollution easily and effectively with your particular thing. For each type of fabric and adhesive solution, you need to use different means.

Basic Rules

In addition to the detergent, you also need to know the basic rules. Although the means for each garment are different, but the rules for each type of fabric will basically be the same:

1. In no case should you hesitate to wash. You need to start fighting glue immediately after you find it. Fresh traces are easier to wash than those that already exist on things for several days.
2. Before washing, you need to remove part of the glue that has not yet hardened with a napkin, after - you can try to carefully collect the remainder with a knife.
3. Before you wash the stain, make sure that the product does not harm your clothes even more.

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Individual approach

Each glue also needs to be covered with completely different means, the main thing is to begin to understand what substance you are fighting with. In this case, do not forget to take into account the rules that are described above.

PVA

Such glue can always become both a good helper and the main pest of the day. This mainly happens when you yourself have dirty something, for example, in our case, clothes. On it, such glue leaves obvious traces that need to be urgently washed. There are several ways to do this:

• The easiest way is laundry soap and hot water. We rub soap on pollution, and wash off everything with hot or warm water.
• A stubborn stain? It does not matter, because cotton wool soaked in alcohol will clean such a stain from some types of fabric in two counts, for example, it is perfect if you need to remove glue from jeans or linen.
• Suede you can save yourself from such sticky adversity with steam and a napkin. To begin with, hold your product for 15 minutes under steam, and then try to wipe the stain with a cloth moistened with ammonia.
• Solvent or refined gasoline can clean the carpet, as well as the upholstery of a soft bed.
• The hardest part is delicate fabrics that can be cleaned with the most ordinary freezer and hands. What is the complexity of this method? After freezing the glue, you need to peel it very carefully with your hands.

Important! Do not use alcohol-based products or aggressive solvents to clean delicate fabrics. Basically, such products can only do more harm to clothes than help.

Silicate

The most moody glue is silicate. It can be removed by applying a simple solution. The composition of the mixture is as follows:

• Baking soda - 50 grams.
• Any detergent.
• Water - 1 liter.

Soak the item in an aqueous solution based on soda and detergent and leave it for a couple of hours. Then use a brush to wipe off the stain.

Important! If you have suede material, then instead of detergent you need to use a special shampoo or soap, which can be bought at any shoe store.

Clerical

This solution has the widest range of opportunities for the development of children's creativity. But, of course, the result of such creativity is often spots that are not so difficult to remove from clothes.

Typically, laundry soap can handle this situation:

1. First, soap the area of ​​contamination with soap.
2. Then you need to rub with a brush or hands in a soapy place.
3. Then wash your product in a washing machine.

Super glue

How to remove super glue? Actually a difficult question, because it consists of rather corrosive substances that instantly adhere to the fibers of any fabric.

Important! The most important thing is that wipe off super glue from clothesIt is a drop of patience and caution.

To remove super glue, you can use one of the following effective methods:

• If you have fresh pollution, then clean the glue from your clothes with refined gasoline.
• A dried stain can be cleaned with a paint remover.
• To remove such a stain from jeans, you need to use the most ordinary nail polish remover.
• To clean the glue from silk or wool clothes, you can soak a thing in a 33% solution of vinegar (30 ml of vinegar in 60 ml of water).
  

Clay “Moment”

Glue of this brand is available in several versions, which is why it is a little more difficult to get it out. Let's figure out how to remove the “Moment” glue from jeans:

• The universal “Super Moment Ideal” can be removed from clothing with the help of the “Super Moment Antique” tool specially created by the same company. He will cope with the solution to any such problem.
• If you processed the shoes with Moment for Shoes glue-gel, then it can be easily removed with a nail file. And you also need acetone or liquid to remove varnish.
• If you “stuck” to the glue for wallpaper, then you are in luck, because things from it can be easily washed in a washing machine.

Label trace

Typically, such traces can be seen if you buy clothes in a store, because basically price tags are glued to the thing itself. When you remove this sticky paper, then immediately there is a small trace of it. And this is very good, because a small footprint is better than a torn part of a blouse or pants. You can wipe such glue with nail polish remover. Then wipe the area with a damp cloth.

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How to clean artificial, dyed and delicate fabrics?

Do not rush to wash such fabrics, because they can easily fade, lose their original shade or even worse - lose their color, completely crawl before your eyes.

Important! Do not use detergents such as acetone or dimethyl sulfoxide to clean artificial, dyed, or delicate fabrics. They dissolve not only dirt stains, but also the fabric itself.

If the adhesive is water-soluble, then it can be removed easily by washing with laundry soap.

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Can dried stains be removed?

If you did not notice a small speck while you messed up things, most likely, it has already dried up. Such spots can be cleaned, although it is rather difficult. Now we will tell you how to better remove glue from clothes.

Removing stiff spots

First you need to understand again what glue it is, from the options that we described to you above. It is also worth considering the density of your fabric, because the denser the fabric, the easier it is to remove such a stain.

The most important and effective method, of course, is freezing. We have already told you about this method. Also a good option - the opposite of cooling, this is heating. Everything is done in the following sequence:

1. A small piece of cloth should be put on the stain.
2. Then we begin to iron.
3. As you iron the stain, the glue will move from your item to this piece of cloth.
4. After the procedure, you will have a small spot that is erased with a stain remover in the washing machine.
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Thus, using simple methods, you can easily get rid of stains on your clothes. We hope that our article helped you in solving the problem of how to remove super glue and other types of mortars from things.