Help my window sill (installed with upvc windows) is splattered with
hair dye. I've tried everything to remove it. Or should I try to
paint over it, if so with what?

sofadog wrote:
Help my window sill (installed with upvc windows) is splattered with
hair dye. I've tried everything to remove it. Or should I try to
paint over it, if so with what?

It's certainly possible if you buy special primers & paints etc, but upvc
doesn't really like to be painted and the surface may not be that durable.

Perhaps worth considering replacing the sill, or fitting a new upvc fascia
board on top of it. Something like this :

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sofadog writes:
Help my window sill (installed with upvc windows) is splattered with
hair dye. I've tried everything to remove it. Or should I try to
paint over it, if so with what?

PVC paints well with oil based gloss paint. You use top-coat only,
directly onto the PVC. The solvent in the paint actually dissolves
into the PVC surface, so the paint forms a permanent bond with the
PVC.

If the hair dye contains a solvent, it may be that this has carried
the dye into the PVC surface, which may be why you can't get it off.
Don't know much about hair dye, as would be obvious from my gray hair;-)

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Andrew Gabriel
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On 21 Jun 2009 23:01:38 GMT, (Andrew
Gabriel) wrote:

In article ,
sofadog writes:
Help my window sill (installed with upvc windows) is splattered with
hair dye. I've tried everything to remove it. Or should I try to
paint over it, if so with what?

PVC paints well with oil based gloss paint. You use top-coat only,
directly onto the PVC. The solvent in the paint actually dissolves
into the PVC surface, so the paint forms a permanent bond with the
PVC.

If the hair dye contains a solvent, it may be that this has carried
the dye into the PVC surface, which may be why you can't get it off.
Don't know much about hair dye, as would be obvious from my gray hair;-)



What have you tried?

I had a problem with 'wiping' a conservatory PVC window ledge and
finding red spiders squashed bodies had left red maks everwhere, which
were very hard to shift.

In the end dilute bleach did the job.

DJ

On Jun 22, 2:27*am, David J wrote:
On 21 Jun 2009 23:01:38 GMT, (Andrew

Gabriel) wrote:
In article ,
* *sofadog writes:
Help my window sill (installed with upvc windows) is splattered with
hair dye. *I've tried everything to remove it. Or should I try to
paint over it, if so with what?

PVC paints well with oil based gloss paint. You use top-coat only,
directly onto the PVC. The solvent in the paint actually dissolves
into the PVC surface, so the paint forms a permanent bond with the
PVC.

If the hair dye contains a solvent, it may be that this has carried
the dye into the PVC surface, which may be why you can't get it off.
Don't know much about hair dye, as would be obvious from my gray hair;-)

What have you tried?

I had a problem with 'wiping' a conservatory PVC window ledge and
finding red spiders squashed bodies had left red maks everwhere, which
were very hard to shift.

In the end dilute bleach did the job.

DJ

thanks everyone for suggestions. I have tried bleach, jif, cillit
bang, nothing works. I think I may give gloss paint a go, but
Homebase have told me there is a UPVC paint, however they no longer
stock it. So, I'm on the hunt for UPVC paint...........

In article ,
sofadog writes:
thanks everyone for suggestions. I have tried bleach, jif, cillit
bang, nothing works. I think I may give gloss paint a go, but
Homebase have told me there is a UPVC paint, however they no longer
stock it. So, I'm on the hunt for UPVC paint...........

Another thought - there is a PVC cleaner which window fitters
use to clean off any dirty marks they make. It will be available
from PVC stockists (usually found on a local industrial estate).

--
Andrew Gabriel
[email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]

Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article ,
sofadog writes:
thanks everyone for suggestions. I have tried bleach, jif, cillit
bang, nothing works. I think I may give gloss paint a go, but
Homebase have told me there is a UPVC paint, however they no longer
stock it. So, I'm on the hunt for UPVC paint...........

Another thought - there is a PVC cleaner which window fitters
use to clean off any dirty marks they make. It will be available
from PVC stockists (usually found on a local industrial estate).


If it is only on the surface then you could try sanding it down. I've
seen it done using progressively finer grades of wet-and-dry.

Andrew