Lidl have bathroom hooks (for towels, etc) on sale here later this week, which are attached - presumably to tiles - by adhesive. I'm wondering if that adhesive is likely to be removable using an appropriate chemical, without damaging the tiles?
Not if it's the stuff they use to glue wine labels on bottles.
Thinners, petrol, surgical spirits, and soda seem unable to shift it :(
Lidl on occasion do a label remover which smells of citrus. Works very well on most of those things. Sort of peel off the backing and stick sort of glues.
Got a new bathroom suite last year, I tried all sorts of solvents to remove the manufactuer's QC labels, seeing something else prompted me to try rubbing in some plain liquid hand soap - worked a treat.
Ever thought of water?
A bathroom hook stuck on with water solvent glue sounds just the ticket, harry.
That would be my first port of call too (assuming it is a solvent based adhesive).
He could be hydrophobic
When I installed the new bathrooms ... there were stickers on every piece of chinaware ... and they wouldn't budge ... bought a bottle of "Sticky Stuff Remover" (that is what it is called) worked superbly, can't be sure it works on all glues ... but did label glue a treat. If it didn't work my next step would be acetone.
I have always found white spirits good once the surface of the label has been removed.
Jonathan
The reference is to wine bottle labels. Try to keep up! :-)
You meam mad? Surely not!
The original post was about hooks to use in bathrooms. The wine labels are not the problem under discussion by anyone exceot Jethro. Do keep up.
Suffering from Rabies, maybe? That used to be known as hydrophobia, as that was a main symptom.
Me too
Once it has been shown that the glue isn't water based, I have never failed to get a sticky label off using it
tim
RS sell it as well: works on most adhesives IME.
I very much doubt anyone on here would need advice on how to remove a label from a glass bottle or jar. Except perhaps you, harry.
I have found the Lidl one works better than the RS one at work or other makes I have tried. As well as having a nice lime smell.
When All Else has failed I use "Ronsonol Lighter Fuel" If it is glued or gooed Ronsonol has always worked for me
Yes - it's very good. Luckily I bought some and found that so went back and bought some more. ;-)
ISTR label remover from the likes of RS is pretty costly too.
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