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Default Wax-stained Bath stone fireplace

Andrew Gabriel wrote:
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"bilbo*baggins" writes:
My wife has left a large wax candle on a Bath stone ledge adjacent to
the fireplace, which has melted and run down/flowed along the ledge,
staining it a dark shade. All the 'lumps' have been scraped off, but I
need to address the stained area, where the wax has been absorbed into
the stone surface.

Can anyone suggest a product and/or process which will help?


A trick for wax on carpets is a warm iron and absorbant paper
such as kitchen roll. Make sure the paper has no ink dyes
in it. Don't know how well it would work on stone. Need longer
with the iron I expect to get the stone up to wax melting point.
Dyes in the wax may not come out.

heat gun or hair-drier might work better in place of the iron

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