Today you will find me on the kitchen floor. The other day while Paul was out of town I was trying to get dinner ready and Lady A decided to get her stickers out. They are all over the kitchen floor now. Being as sore and as pregnant as I am ~ I decided to let her and just clean them up later, that was not a battle I wanted to fight at the time. Today I decided to figure out how hard it is going to be clean them all up so I sat down with some of my favorite cleaning friends and went to town.
There were two types of stickers 1: paper ones that left paper after trying to peal them up and 2: plastic ones where the entire sticker came up but left all of the sticky residue behind.
First peal up the stickers and get as much off as you can.
Then sprinkle some baking soda over the left behind gunk.
Dip your scrubber sponge in the hot water and ring it out then start scrubbing.
This took very little effort, I was so happy. It also got these apartment floors cleaner than I have ever seen them. Now I'll have to figure out a way to get the rest of the floor to clean up that nicely {hopefully without having to sit on the floor with a box of baking soda and a small scrubber sponge}. I'll leave that for another day, one where I am not 38 weeks pregnant and can't bend or move.
First peal up the stickers and get as much off as you can.
Then sprinkle some baking soda over the left behind gunk.
Dip your scrubber sponge in the hot water and ring it out then start scrubbing.
This took very little effort, I was so happy. It also got these apartment floors cleaner than I have ever seen them. Now I'll have to figure out a way to get the rest of the floor to clean up that nicely {hopefully without having to sit on the floor with a box of baking soda and a small scrubber sponge}. I'll leave that for another day, one where I am not 38 weeks pregnant and can't bend or move.
The reason I think this worked is because the baking soda acts as a scrubbing agent to get the rest of the paper residue that is left behind. It also seemed like it helped to lift the sticky residue because it would ball up and wipe away.
Tip: There were stickers under my bucket of hot water as well. Once I moved the bucket after taking the photo the stickers under it were damp from the humidity and steam coming from the bottom of the bucket. When I pealed those stickers up most of the paper and sticky backing came up on the first swipe of my thumb nail. If you have a steam mop I would suggest trying that first.
Tip: There were stickers under my bucket of hot water as well. Once I moved the bucket after taking the photo the stickers under it were damp from the humidity and steam coming from the bottom of the bucket. When I pealed those stickers up most of the paper and sticky backing came up on the first swipe of my thumb nail. If you have a steam mop I would suggest trying that first.
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