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Title: Has my GF ruined our coffee table
Post by: baggieboy on February 06, 2007, 12:37:14: Hi there , i went out last thursday and spent a fortune on furniture for our living room in our flat. So today my girlfriend decided to wipe the coffee table with a baby wipe >:( >:(

Now there are white streaks all over the top of it :'( :'(

Is there anything i can do to remove them, or shall i just kill her now??

thanks
Title: Re: Has my GF ruined our coffee table
Post by: rosebud on February 06, 2007, 12:43:51: Is it wood? if so wipe with an almost dry cloth then, polish with a little OLIVE OIL and let it dry then buff it up. I hope this works for you it does for me & lots of other peeps. Also if you ever scratch wood, bite a Brazil nut in half and rub it over the scratch the same way as the grain goes. always works may need a second rub if a bad scratch. Hope this helps in some small way. Rosebud. ;D
Title: Re: Has my GF ruined our coffee table
Post by: baggieboy on February 06, 2007, 12:46:56: thanks rose bud,

the streaks are all over the table top so do i use just a little olive oil all over?
Title: Re: Has my GF ruined our coffee table
Post by: Biscombe on February 06, 2007, 18:50:47: Buy a nice runner!!
Title: Re: Has my GF ruined our coffee table
Post by: baggieboy on February 06, 2007, 18:58:41: rosebud you are a star.....wiped olive oil over the top now no more white streaks

tyvvm ;D
Title: Re: Has my GF ruined our coffee table
Post by: rosebud on February 06, 2007, 22:51:42: My pleasure. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Has my GF ruined our coffee table
Post by: kenkew on February 07, 2007, 00:18:16: I've said it before, an' I'll say it again......that there rosebud is something else....Got to be Yorkshire blood in there somewhere.

Let's hear it for...................
Title: Re: Has my GF ruined our coffee table
Post by: rosebud on February 07, 2007, 15:44:18: Yes Ken, there certainly is Yorkshire blood and plenty of it i am very proud to say, just how did you know??. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Has my GF ruined our coffee table
Post by: kenkew on February 08, 2007, 13:29:28: Takes one to know one.
Title: Re: Has my GF ruined our coffee table
Post by: rosebud on February 08, 2007, 15:51:41: I am on my way Ken, just get me coat keep them spuds warm . Thats a real yorkshire pud there Lad. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Has my GF ruined our coffee table
Post by: cornykev on February 08, 2007, 18:12:33: Rosebud now for your next trick. Kid brought home one them glow bracelet and neckace thingys you get from kids partys she left them on our antique pine table, in the morning they had leaked and made made marks on the table any ideas.
Title: Re: Has my GF ruined our coffee table
Post by: Hyacinth on February 08, 2007, 19:13:53: What's the substance inside them?
Title: Re: Has my GF ruined our coffee table
Post by: cornykev on February 08, 2007, 19:34:22: Haven't a clue Alish but its sort of stripped the varnish off the size of a straw.
Title: Re: Has my GF ruined our coffee table
Post by: rosebud on February 08, 2007, 22:34:06: Kev, try wipeing with a damp cloth and rubbing a nut on it about 3 times during the day so it soaks in.i do not know if it works on pine but does on any dark wood , but do give it a try and let me know. Brazil nut.

What about SPURS last Sunday, :'( :'( Opppps i`ll get me coat byeeeeee. ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Has my GF ruined our coffee table
Post by: cornykev on February 09, 2007, 15:33:26: Cheers Rosebud I'll give it a go, yep we are struggling a bit at the moment a good win the weekend should sort that .P.S. say hello to Sam from me. ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Has my GF ruined our coffee table
Post by: rosebud on February 09, 2007, 15:39:37: If that does not work try a small amount of LINSEED oil should do the trick.

They need to show some bottle on Sunday thats for sure , will say hello to sammy.
Title: Re: Has my GF ruined our coffee table
Post by: OliveOil on February 09, 2007, 20:52:50: Brown vinegar - my grandad was a french polisher and brown vinegar is what he uses for things liek this! Just pour it over and leave it for a couple of hours
Title: Re: Has my GF ruined our coffee table
Post by: OliveOil on February 09, 2007, 20:54:32: BTW baby wipes are lethal! I remember when mine were young i would push them under the sofa - if one was poking out of the packet and it touched the fabric of the sofa it would leave a dirty bleachy browny stain!

Just think if they can do that to your table, what are they doing to baby?
Title: Re: Has my GF ruined our coffee table
Post by: baggieboy on February 09, 2007, 21:13:43: Quote from: OliveOil on February 09, 2007, 20:54:32
Just think if they can do that to your table, what are they doing to baby?

I know and these are the fragrence free ones supposedly natural ???
Title: Re: Has my GF ruined our coffee table
Post by: Deb P on February 09, 2007, 21:24:49: With my midwife head on, I have to say that when I worked on the community I could tell which mums used babywipes and who used ordinary water by the state of their babies bums!

Loads of nappy rash in the wipes babies. Wipes are ok for the odd use when out travelling, but I personally would not recommend them for prolonged or 'usual' use, water and cotton wool work just fine! ;D

As you say, when you see what it has done to the finish on a table.....ouch! :-\
Title: Re: Has my GF ruined our coffee table
Post by: telboy on February 10, 2007, 18:30:00: I'd still kill her baggieboy - just for the hell of it!
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Has my GF ruined our coffee table
Post by: cornykev on February 11, 2007, 17:41:05: Will give it a go cheers. ;D ;D ;D