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Letter 10275
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+++++ Was horrified to discover very large stain from coffee pot on dining room table after Christmas dinner. Used warm iron and table napkin on stain. Hey, presto, stain totally removed. Had another small stain that had been on table for two years, guess what, warm iron and napkin removed that also. Frances
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Erase white wood stains with a Hair dryer in about five minutes. I put a paper plate down on the table it was too hot and made the stain. I didn't find it until the next day. I couldn't find the iron so I improvised, and grabbed the Hair dryer instead. I held the dryer about 4 inches from the stain for about 5 minutes and at the same time buffed it with a dry cloth. It came right out! Shellie
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Iron and t-shirt works!!!! I was surprised that the white marks came right off! Caroline
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++++++ Wow. Unbelievable. After FIVE YEARS of living with two cloudy white heat stains on my good dining table, and covering them up with a tablecloth....I finally found this website and used the heat/iron method. It works brilliantly, and the table is as new. Thank you to who ever posted this tip. Lesley
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Bought brand new sideboard, had baby, got lovely flowers, sat flowers on new sideboard, now got nasty dark brown ring mark. Please help.
VICTORIA MORRISON
JERSEY - UK
I am in the process of completely redoing an old dresser that I think is cherry or mahogany. I took all the old finish off with a sander and had lined the drawers up on a table in my garage. One of the kids put the cat's water dish on one of the drawers and of course it was spilled. Now there is a dark stain on it. Is there any way of getting it out? Please be very specific. I read something about using Oxalic Acid [link is to product info at Rockler] but am not sure how to go about it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Laura Velasquez
consumer - Reading, Kansas
I just tried the method that uses a cotton piece
of fabric (no lint!) and an iron to get out cloudy white water
stains.
It worked beautifully on a 12 by 15 inch solid water stain.
Simply amazing! You simply
iron the piece of cotton on top of the stain. I started with a warm iron and then used a higher setting
as I felt comfortable.
Janis Ireland
- Appleton, Wisconsin
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++++++ I have a wooden table finished with black paint, I had put a cold bowl on the table and to my horror it left a white cloud.... I tried the iron method that was suggested on your website...and it worked actually worked!!!!!thx for the advise! Abi
Jacob
Used a face cloth and iron, and all of my husbands 'toast sweat' is now gone! Melissa
Peter
Brilliant. A KFC bucket had created a few damp heat stains on a table in my parents' house. Using a medium-heat iron on a small cloth I discovered it all disappeared. Thank you to whoever first mentioned this! I'm saved from a lot of trouble from my parents! Tim
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We used the t-shirt and medium heat iron on our fresh water ring (left from a hot cup of tea). The ring is gone! But, I do caution about the heat of the iron. The temperature got a bit too hot and it ended up permanently leaving some lint from the t-shirt behind. The lint looks much better than the ring, so we're happy. Make sure you're patient and take your time with a cooler iron.
Julie Dandliker
- Oakland, California
I too got material stuck to where I was trying to remove an old water stain. Now I have two awful areas on my wood surface. Any suggestions for getting rid of the new disaster?
Judy MacAulay
- Mission, BC, Canada
I had two circular white water stains on a beautiful teak dining table. For 5 years I've been covering them with place mats. Ten minutes with a white napkin and an iron at medium heat, and the table looks brand new again. Thanks so much!
Susan Wieland
- Providence, Rhode Island
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++++++ I am absolutely amazed at the brilliant person who suggested using heat on water marks. I bought mahogony furtniture (expensive) I loved and was being so careful. I put a cloth on the table to protect it. The heat from a hot tea went throught he cloth and left a mark mark the size of loonie. I have asked and asked and noone could help until I finally found this site. I used a blowdryer and wiped as I heated. It took about 10 min. but it worked, amazing the spot is totally gone. I am thrilled. Thank you so much.....I can't wait to tell everyone who had no answers for me except to refinsih the whole table. Thank you again..... Diane
Cantin
++++++ HELP ! Ruined roommate's bar ! I had a poinsettia on my roommate's brand new, beautiful, black wood bar for the holidays and the water leaked through its can. Now there is a terrible water ring and I'm afraid the wood is saturated. ANY IDEAS ?! HELP !? Susie
Oszustowicz
+++++++ I tried the iron and cloth on a white heat stain on my teak dining room table - it worked! That stain had been there for 2 years! Then I used the toothpaste solution on a more recent dye stain from a colored piece of paper (paper stained the wood) and it took it out. Thanks! Russell
Cooper
+++++++ I am one happy girl right now! who ever said about using an iron on a water mark left on wood~is a superstar! I tried a few things already that I found on the internet AND they didnt work!!! I was about to give up ~~ thanks so much!!! Heather
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I used the hot iron on the white water stain and Thanks guys, it worked a treat. keep up the good ideas Ian
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How can I get white water stains lined with a brown ring from antique pine table tops?
Carole Fultz
retired housewife - Escondido, California
hooray,UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!
My friend found this website and emailed it to me after I ruined my
friend's table with a hot coffee cup. We thought we were gonna have
to have the whole thing sanded and refinished but in 2 minutes the
table was like new again!!!!
It's really hard to believe! Where would we be without google!
Just a few additional remarks:
I think it's a good idea to make sure the steam is off.
Also, I think the cloth doesn't necessarily have to be white,
especially if the furniture is not white. (for example, I used a
brown t-shirt on my brown table, that way if you leave it on for too
long, you'd get the same color lint at least :))
Also, make sure the surface is clean so that you don't iron the dirt
in.
Good luck!
Deniz
- Brooklyn, New York
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It totally works, hot water stain heat stained table used hot iron method and it took about 10 minutes.
Dustin Pause
- SF, California
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Awesome tip with the iron! My wife and I just got
a beautiful antique table from her boss and I thought I had ruined it
when I forgot and sat a box of hot chicken wings on it, leaving nasty
white heat marks. A white lint free cloth, a hot iron and 5 minutes
of ironing fixed it! AWESOME TIP!
Thanks!
Josh Richardson
- Centreville, Virginia
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+++++++ Thank you so much for the advice on removing white heat marks from wood. We used my Mom's dining room table for Easter Dinner and when I removed the tablecloth discovered a hot dish had made white marks. I used the linen table napkin with an iron and the marks are gone!!! I'm sure my Mom is looking down from heaven and is pleased too!!! Judy
DeCaire
My nephew and a friend put a hot pizza on
our antique cherry wood table and left 9 or 10 circular 2"
marks on it. I thought it was ruined permanently but I tried
the soft flannel cloth and a medium iron (steam off!) and
after 10 minutes only one nickel sized stain remains and
that is where the wooden nail is on that end of the table
and I'm guessing it sunk in deeper there because of the
opening. Vandra
Morgan
+++++++ Fantastic tip about the iron and white cloth! It really works, I have just literally removed the damage that I did to my teak dining table 2 days ago when trying to steam iron linen curtains that were far too big for my ironing board. Who would have thought that I could fix the damage with the culprit!! Thanks very much for the tip. Shirley
Phillips
+++++++ I had company & placed hot plates on my brand new mahogany dining table, for the coffee & tea pots............when I was cleaning up, they left rings through the protection...........remembering my grandmother using polish to repair a similar problem, I tried it.............have been applying many applications of polish and buffing.......most of the problem is gone, but I still have an obvious shadow........am I headed in the right direction and just have to keep at it or should I start crying?? Michelle
Sherwood
+++++++ It worked!! I was skeptical, since heat made the mark in the first place. I used a hair dryer first. Didn't work for me. Then I used the iron. No more white marks :-) Make sure you use the iron on medium heat with NO STEAM! I used a t-shirt cloth. Worked great. My husband swore it wouldn't work, but it did. I used lemon oil to polish and the table looks like new. Thanks for the advise. Steph
Pribula
+++++++ How can we remove water stains on bare wood? I put some planters on a radiator cover, made of light bare wood, and the planters leaked. Does the iron method work on bare wood? Mary Jean Babic |
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Wow! I had a white cloudy water stain from a flower pot on my solid birch table, I thought my table was ruined. The stain had been there for several months. Today I tried the medium heat iron and a t-shirt and the stain is gone. I then rubbed it with lemon oil and unless you knew there had been a spot there you really can't see it. Thank you so much! My husband & I are very impressed.
Debra Martens
- Smyrna, Tennessee
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I had great results today with the iron method on my 60 year old cherry dining table which recently had received three water marks. Two disappeared and the 3rd is much fainter. I followed the iron (no steam and only about 6 seconds)up with another home remedy of equal parts apple cider vinegar and olive oil and rubbed in the grain and buffed out with a dry soft cloth. It looks gorgeous and 90% better.
Rose Anderson
- Helena, Montana
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+++++++ Going to kill husband! hi we just bought a fairly polished dining table and had to transport it 3 hrs. apparantly my husband did not know the blanket he used was damp and therefore we got it home and it has several water stains all over it. will the iron method work for this please help me!!!! ELICIA RADIN
+++++++ A lot of wood stains will come out with a product called
Magic Eraser [link is to product info at Amazon]. It
has taken out white heat stains on a coffee table of mine,
and dark spots on a end table. Jennifer Beety |
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Had a vase of white lilies on my new highly polished mahogany dining table and the pollen has fallen onto my table. I immediately wiped with water and cloth but this has caused an unsightly stain. I beg for your help to my dilemma.
Jacqueline Mcdonald
- England
I have a finished wood table and left hot bread
rolls on the exposed surface too long and as a result, 2 white heat
stains appeared. I tried toothpaste, mayo + ashes, oil and none of
those suggestins worked.
I finally tried the iron method as suggested - a dry cloth and the
iron set to medium level. Do not use steam.
I used for 10 minutes, wiping after each iron and it worked!
Thank you to this site for saving my favorite table!
M Viola
- Toronto, Ontario
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Unbelievable!!! Thank goodness I stumbled across this website while looking for tips on how to remove white water mark stains from wood. I have a beautiful 1943 Lane cedar chest that belonged to my parents...unfortunately about 10 years I sat a pail of water down on it, sprang to answer the phone, got distracted thereafter for several hours ....forgetting totally about the pail quietly obliterating my family piece. I could have cried. For the past 10 years I have had to cover it with a quilt. Needless to say I was quite dubious about the ironing tip so I tried a few of the others here first-- the stain barely budged, if at all. As a last resort I went and got the iron and a t-shirt. I started out on a very low setting with a dry iron...slowly advancing the heat setting and monitoring what was happening about every 5-10 seconds in hopes to catch it quickly if it was making things worse. After raising the heat level slightly higher than medium...VOILA----that 10 year old HUGE pail water mark is gone...and I mean GONE!!!!! I am just thrilled to bits...THANK YOU..THANK YOU...THANK YOU...to all who have shared their success with this tip....so I came back to add one of my own since my stain was HUGE and 10 years...but it is only a memory now:)
Sarah Jesse
Owens
- Sacramento, California
A word of warning.
My wife left a ice cream bowl on a coaster on the coffee table
overnight. The humidity caused it to go right through the coaster. I
dried the area with a paper towl when I discovered it this
morning...oops mistake. I scratched the finish. Then I did the iron
and used an old white t-shirt. The water spot came right out except
for were I scratched the varnish. Don't try to rub the spot out, just
use an iron (haven't had to try the blow dryer).
Jonathan Lefor
- Columbus, Ohio
We recently purchased a very expensive dining room table for our new home. At first, I was so nervous about it, that I kept it covered with a tablecloth, but realizing I was covering up the reason we bought it in the first place, its beauty, I removed the cloth only to have my son set a glass of juice outside the placemat. It caused a pretty bad water ring and I am afraid of using anything on it, for fear of making it worse. Will the iron method work on water rings? Does anyone have any suggestions?
Sheila K
- Airdrie, Alberta, Canada
If you are cautious and want to hire a furniture refinishing expert to come in and fix this stain, no one will fault you, Sheila -- it is your own new and very expensive table!
But, c'mon :-)
-- we printed testimonials from twenty-six people who have have said
the iron method worked on water marks and rings. How many more
testimonials must we print before you feel we've given you enough to
decide whether to try it or not? :-)
Sorry about your misfortune, and good luck whichever way you go! -- Cousin Ted
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LEFT A HOT TEAPOT ON MY WIFES PRIDE AND JOY A HIGHLY POLISHED CHERRY DINING TABLE LEAVING A WHITE MARK ABOUT THE SIZE OF A SAUCER. TRIED THE WARM IRON AND LINEN CLOTH HAY PRESTO AFTER ABOUT THREE MINUTES THE MARK DISAPPEARED BEFORE MY VERY EYES MAGIC!!!!!!!!!THANK YOU WHOEVER POSTED THIS SOLUTION YOU SAVED MY BACON
D. NEWINS
- DUNDEE, SCOTLAND, U.K.
We left a solid wood entertainment center outdoors temporarily and covered as best as we could with a tarp but rain still leaked in, now some of the edges and seams have dark (almost black) water stains. Any suggestions?
Donna Alston
hobbyist - Bethesda, Maryland
I placed a warm cardboard pizza box on my coffee table, and about an hour later discovers a huge white, heat stain. Shot hot air at the stain for about 10 minutes using my hair dryer on hot and am so relieved to tell you the stain in gone! Thanks for the great advise!
Maria Palis
- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
I too want to report success with the ironing method of removing
water marks (or, clouds in this case). BUT be forewarned to keep the
not-too-hot iron moving, and don't stay on it too long, and do not
apply heavy pressure. Keep checking every 30 seconds as someone above
suggested, or you may damage the wood surface!
I followed up with lemon oil and it is 95% perfect.
Aurora Lee
- New York, New York
My daughter thought she would iron on my dining table with a towel
under it.
Now I have this massive white smudge and white iron indents on my
beautiful table
Please I'm desperate to get it off.
Juanita White
mother - nsw, Australia
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Wayne
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THAT WAS AMAZING! I'm living with a surrogate mother right now. Her grandson was over and left a burrito on her cherry wood table. It left a mark. The ironing thing WORKED!! I was so amazed and as she said, she was so "geeked!" lol. Thanks guys!!! ashley
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Juanita - any luck? I wasn't thinking and made some
t-shirts with iron on transfers on top of the wood table.
Well - it left a nice white mark on my espresso table.
Anyone know how to remove this? David O 1 2
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