One of my precious 5th graders wrote assignments on my whiteboard with a PERMANENT sharpee marker. Does anyone have any idea on how to get it off? I've heard hairspray, but haven't tried it yet. PLEASE HELP!!!!
2007-03-16 04:02:56 · 16 answers · asked by peasnapod 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Cleaning & Laundry
My little cousins would always do that to my whiteboards too..
so i found this neat way to remove them:
you take a DRY ERASE marker and then you draw OVER the permanent marks and make sure you draw slowly to fill it in better..
then you take the whiteboard eraser and erase over it.
Hope it helps.
2007-03-16 04:10:51 · answer #1 · answered by =] 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Expo white board cleaner says it will remove permanent marker. There is also a special board cleaner that says it's really good at that, but I don't remember who it's made by. If the hairspray doesn't work, an office supply store like Office Depot or Staples carries the board cleaners and one of them should do the trick. The quicker you can get it off the better.
I did have pretty good luck with the Expo cleaner on an old board that had ancient baked-on writing on it. It still has shadows, but since I don't know its history, anything could have been used to write on it at one time or another. We use it for pictionary!
2007-03-16 04:41:08 · answer #2 · answered by karat4top 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Mr Clean Magic Eraser.
2007-03-16 06:50:30 · answer #3 · answered by Question Addict 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Believe it or not, use a dry erase marker and draw over the permanent mark. Then erase both and they will come off. This definitely works since my students once did the same thing.
2007-03-16 04:14:52 · answer #4 · answered by kgenesius 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Mr Clean Magic Eraser maybe?
2007-03-16 04:34:49 · answer #5 · answered by KrisKarson 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser would do it.
2007-03-16 06:47:43 · answer #6 · answered by Tink 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK, I've got nothing to add except that I've seen adults at my work do the same thing, or in one case, use them on a projector screen, forgetting that it had been pulled down in front of the white board to show some PowerPoint slides.
2007-03-16 04:22:28 · answer #7 · answered by mattzcoz 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
try Windex, it worked when my teacher wrote on the board in permanent marker ( this is a college) and he used that. or soap and water (hot water) and wipe with paper towel and then use the dry erase pad to get the stain off of it.
or some other tough cleaner for it.
2007-03-16 04:08:49 · answer #8 · answered by ezekiel's mom 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Rubbing alcohol with a cotton ball.
It may take a little elbow greese, but it will come off.
2007-03-16 06:15:37 · answer #9 · answered by Obama, 47 y/o political virgin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go with fingernail polish remover... the only problem you might have is that you'll have difficulties erasing any new material completely in that spot. your custodian may have a product (or know of one) that will restore the surface damage done by the acetone.
remember what whitney says, "i believe that children are our future." also remember what that waiter from 'ferris bueller's day off' said, "i weep for our future." somewhere in between lies the truth.
good luck, ma'am!
2007-03-16 04:09:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋