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How to clean fence paint off porcelain tiles

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Barrysmintybiscuits · 09/06/2023 13:36

We've done up our garden in the last few weeks and have laid porcelain paving tiles that are pale in colour. We went out in the garden last night to find that out next door neighbours spray painted their fence and our paving is now covered in a dried layer of paint drops. Not big blobs but like a fine mist of paint where he's gone too high and the paint has gone over the top of his fence and landed in our garden.

I went round to speak to the neighbours yesterday but they were out and the door was answered by their daughter so I couldn't really do much in the way of speaking to them.

Anyway we've been out to buy a jet wash today but it's not lifting it, does anyone have any suggestions of how to remove the paint without damaging or scraping at the paving? Google say paint thinner but that's all on articles talking about concrete and indoor tiles with a glaze on them, rather than outdoor porcelain tiles.

I'm so pissed off about it as we did all the garden work ourselves to save money and now just as we've finished this has happened!

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stbrandonsboat · 09/06/2023 13:41

Is it paint or fence stain? If it's stain on porcelain it should come off with some Cif cream and a green washing up scrubbie or scrub daddy.

Nousernamesleftatall · 09/06/2023 13:42

Try nail polish remover or white spirit.

Barrysmintybiscuits · 09/06/2023 13:45

@stbrandonsboat I'm not sure tbh, I was hoping to ask them when I went round yesterday but they weren't there :/ I need to go back round anyway to say that if he's going to do a second coat of paint then they need to tell us so we can cover the garden along the fence line. I'll try cif as I have some under the sink! Thank you

@Nousernamesleftatall I don't think we have any white spirit but I'll have some old nail polish remover upstairs so if the CIF doesn't work il try that on a small area to see if it helps. Thank you!

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Barrysmintybiscuits · 09/06/2023 13:56

@stbrandonsboat the CIF worked!!! Well the Aldi version of cif did 😂 thank you!

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