How can I get get splattered candle wax off my wood floor easily and without damaging the floor?

Answer 1

Let it cool completely and use a plastic spatula to gently scrape it up. Once you have it all up, use ammonia on a soft cloth to gently buff away the residue.

Of your floors are waxed, you may need to buff and re-wax the area if it is large.

Answer 2

I have wood floors and I have done both of these suggestions:
1. Spray WD40 (a lubricant you find in an automotive store) on the wax and let it set for a few minutes. Get an exacto knife or a box cutter and place it level with the floor. The wax will loosen and come up easily.
OR
2. In the grocery store in the laundry area where the dye is located are products that take up everything from getting blood out of clothing, to getting wax out of clothing. You can use this on your floor but you will still need to scrape it a little.

DO NOT USE an iron on a hardwood floor. This method that someone mentioned above is for tablecloths and such...not floors.

Good Luck!

Answer 3

If the candle is colored and your flooring not prefinished . Heating the towels to absorb the wax will open the pores in the wood and the wax will enter and leave a stain.
Use ice to harden and lift off with spatula or putty knife then buff away the rest. The heat from hand buffing will heat the wax and the residue will come up in the cloth before it goes into the wood grain.
If the floor is fairly new and prefinished the warm iron and to wells will work

Answer 4

I've always used a large paper bag and an iron (though I don't know much about the wood floors). What I do is heat up the iron (the type to iron clothes), put the paper bag on the floor, and iron over the top. The wax melts into the paper and comes off very well. I know this works for carpet, but I've never dealt with wood floors so I'm not certain about that. I don't think it will do any damage unless you hold it in the same spot for too long, though.

Answer 5

Cool the wax with an ice cube, then use a sharp spatula or scraper of some sort to get under the edge of it and lift it free. The cooling will make the wax stronger and help it come off in one piece, as well as shrinking it and the difference in expansion between the wood and wax will help as well

Answer 6

ICE Cubes! Harden the wax with 'em, then simply use a plastic knife or scraper (hard enough to move the wax, but not to damage the wood).

Wax residue may remain, and you take the opposite approach...warm it with a hair dryer, and since it's just a small about of wax, you can then just wipe it up with an absorbent cloth.

More here:

http://www.housekeepingchannel.com/hcp_212-Wax_candle

Answer 7

confident i've got faith i might actually help in case you try this one elementary step, Use a ice cube place it on the candle wax till it hardens, then only scrape it up with a rubber scraper the type you employ to scrape bowls or maybe returned of butter knife gently pry off the hardened wax.for an extra obtainable tip; next time you employ candles, place the candles interior a freezer for variety of 10-15 minutes earlier using this might provide up the candles from dripping alot and can cause them to burn longer solid luck !

Answer 8

Get some paper towels (or anything absorbent) and also get your hair dryer. Turn on hair dryer on hot, and melt. Wipe with paper towels. Another way to do it is place the paper towels (about 2-3) on top on wax, then heat with hair dryer. As wax melt, it should be absorbed by the paper towels. Good luck.

You can also use an iron. Place paper towels over wax and use the hot iron over the paper.

Answer 9

Place brown paper over the melted wax and iron with a preheated iron (on low). The wax will melt and stick to the paper. Keep rearranging the paper and ironing until it's all come up. Don't leave the iron on the paper too long.Good luck and cheers

Answer 10

Take ice cubes and rub it over the wax repeatly. The goal is to freeze the wax. Frozen wax is very brittle and will simply break to pieces. You can then quickly sweep it up. Good luck!