Wood tars, besides their unique fragrant air, have also feature, less attractive to the housewife, – stickiness and tendency to hardening. It is almost impossible to remove pitch from clothes by means of normal hand or machine wash. But there are many other ways to get rid of this misfortune.
It is required to you
- - Deep freeze
- - Linen gloves
- - Water
- - Laundry detergent
- - Acetone (sal ammoniac, turpentine, alcohol, kerosene or gasoline)
- - Salt
- - Starch
- - Rag
- - Cotton wool
- - Iron
- - Blotter or gauze
- - Knife
- - Iron
- - Brush with soft and rigid bristle
Instruction
1. Try to manage for a start by more sparing method to clean clothes from pitch, and freeze slightly soiled thing in the deep freeze or take out it on the street in winter frost. After hardening of spot put on linen gloves and carefully pound pitch indicative and big fingers. If the speck was even fresher, then it has to crumble. After that wash clothes in warm water with normal laundry detergent.
2. Use more active funds for cleaning of pitch from clothes if the spot does not give in to grinding. Usually these types of pollution delete with acetone; mix of ammonia solution and table salt; turpentine; ethyl alcohol. And if you are not afraid of unpleasant smell, then can take kerosene or gasoline. Not to spoil fabric, at first read information on the label of product – whether dry cleaning is possible in general for it. It is good to test at first any given means on reverse of hardly noticeable seam.
3. Spread pile of napkins or the clean porous rag put several times under the cleaned thing. The pitch spot on clothes needs to be processed at first at the edges that it has not blurred on the surface of fabric. Moisten cotton tampon in cleanser and wipe pollution, gradually moving to the center.
4. If the spot of pitch was already thoroughly absorbed in structure of fabric, apply to cleaning of thing brush with very rigid bristle. Blot it in the cleaning liquid and pokhlestyvayta spot – so means will get more deeply and will clean old pollution.
5. Carefully, not to damage fabric, scratch out pitch knife blade and water the ethyl alcohol and turpentine (taken in equal proportions) on the remained dirt. After that cover distressful clothes with gauze or blotter (it is possible even toilet paper) and properly iron. Brush thing.
6. At last, try to use starch. In 5 g of powder drip a little sal ammoniac and turpentine that liquid gruel has turned out. Smear with it speck of pitch and let's dry completely before formation of crust. After that it is necessary to clean clothes from pitch rigid, then with softer brush.