I knew I could get a good amount of it off by scraping it with a Spackle knife, but after that I was at a loss because there was wax down in all the grooves of the bricks. So, needless to say the wax has sat there on our brick for the past 4 or 5 months - yes we are absurdly lazy when it comes to some things. I hated the look of it, but I didn't really know what to do, and it never rose to the top of the 'need to do now' list, so it just kinda lingered.
Fast forward to this weekend. My parents came in town to do a little beach time before heading to my sister's house to help with some bathroom remodeling. My dad said that he saw on TV a guy that was selling some kind of steamer to lift wax off of surfaces, so we decided to try the iron and see if we could get anywhere. I mean at this point, what can it hurt. So, I scraped off the worst of it, which left it looking like this...
...then we took an old kitchen towel that accidentally got thrown in the darks with a previously unlaundered green blanket (not washing lights with previously unwashed darks is a pretty basic Home Ec rule, but whatever) and the iron on the highest setting...
...and VIOLA! No more wax - it worked perfectly! This is my dad and I looking amazed at all the wax that is now on the towel and not on my brick (ignore the bathing suit we had just come in from swimming and I was going to be teaching lessons in a half hour so I didn't want to bother changing into clothes just to change back into a swim suit).
So, keep that in mind if you ever leave a candle unattended (yes another very basic Home Ec rule) and it drips wax on something. It's nothing an old dish towel and your iron can't handle.
We get a lot of fun requests and your solution is exactly what I would have suggested.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, you aren't lazy, you are human. You should see the wall in our house that needs repainting.