Out stainless steel gas hob has been waiting to be installed for the last 12 months. It's day has come!
However, the kind man in the shop fixed the burner supports on with Sellotape so they didn't move in transit (it was ex-display so no box). Unfortunately we didn't remove the Sellotape until today and it's left dried patches of adhesive on the stainless steel. I've got most of it off with white spirit but there are still some marks.
Can anyone recommend something to finish the job? Or do I leave it to soak in white spirit for a few hours?
Make a wad out of kitchen roll or a paper hanky, soak it in label remover, tape it down over the residue and leave for an hour or so.
Meths also works on dry residue, but if there is any of the original adhesive there still sticky it turns it into a sort of goo which just gets spread out by rubbing eventually turning black by picking up dirt. :(
Vaseline will work so, surprisingly, will talcum powder. You have to sprinkle the powder and rub it with a finger, the adhesive will pill and roll off.
I did it only today with a telephone with which my late mother had secured the volume control - and I've done it on other materials in the past.
Just don't do what I did a few months back when I was staying at a friend's house while he was away. I found a couple of cheapo air fresheners lurking under the sink and stuck one on the front of the brushed stainless steel cooker hood with the self adhesive patch it came with. What an effing nightmare that turned into. It smelled so horrible I decided to take it off again but the bloody thing wouldn't budge. I was pulling so hard I feared that either the hood was going to come off the wall or I was going to buckle the metal and leave a convex dent in it. Anyway finally it tore free leaving most of the adhesive and foam backing still glued firmly to the metal. I scraped away at that for ages with my fingernails getting nowhere fast but every now and then a tiny piece would 'pill' up and come free.
When I'd run out of both fingernails and patience I had a go with a nylon dish scourer and some washing up liquid and eventually had the last of the goo removed. It wasn't until I stood back that I saw to my horror that under the glare of the kitchen lights the patch I'd been rubbing at was now a totally different shade to the rest of the cooker hood. Most of it was the original dullish matt brushed finish with this bright new silver shiny patch beaming out from the middle of it like a mirror. Much effing and blinding and pondering the situation later I decided the only option short of buying him a new one was to try and get the whole thing looking the same so I spent half the night stood on a chair with assorted bits of wire wool and scouring pads going over 6 square feet of cooker hood until I'd roughened the new patch back up a bit and polished all of the rest to match. Finally as dawn broke I'd got it to the stage where unless you already knew what had happened and exactly where to look it all had near as dammit the same appearance and reflectivity.
Not a mistake I'm ever going to make again and I advise anyone who comes across something with one of those self adhesive patches on it to bin the bloody thing before they're tempted to use it.
to remove thermal pads however I have been using it for loads of things around the house. So far it has tackled all jobs like removing grease, sellotape residue etc. Absolutely brilliant stuff. It is citrus based.
I once helped an artist friend to hang an exhibition of some of his pictures. For some we used these damned patches and when we took down the pictures plaster came off the walls with them.
The exhibition hall people, I imagine, weren't best pleased. We did a runner!
Lighter fuel or nail polish remover would be my first choices. Lighter fuel works well with sticky labels on shiney cardboard where the removal of the sticker may remove the shine.
In the absence of supplies of lighter fuel I used WD40. Left it to soak for a while and a little vigorous rubbing with a cloth in the same direction as the 'pattern' in the stainless steel removed the adhesive.
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