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Ideas to remove stains from 'plastic' tablecloth please!

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shootfromthehip · 19/02/2009 18:15

I bought a lovely and expensive oilskin/ plastic tablecloth from John Lewis and it is stained- has had curry/ spag bol and tomato sauce on it (not all at once but at various points- I have a 2 yr old!!!!). The cream background now has splodges of bright orange on it!

Any ideas on how to get them off? Have only used ecover multisurface cleaner on it to no avail! Thanks in advance

OP posts:
anchovies · 19/02/2009 18:20

Bleach or a magic sponge thing might help but from experience there is no removing orange stains!

shootfromthehip · 19/02/2009 18:24

Arse- tried a 'magic sponge' too actually (was too to admit I was sad enough to have bought one). Was hoping that there was a solution as maybe people have had this problem with their dishwashers colouring plastic orange?

Thanks though anchovies

OP posts:
hairycaterpillar · 19/02/2009 18:28

Same problem in our house...have found no perfect cure .Stains do tend to fade with time. Sunlight helps to fade it quicker.

bumbling · 19/02/2009 19:16

I've got one of those and Ds put some kind of pen on it that I couldn't shift. riend came round and was wping cloth pre lunch and just picked up the fairy power spray, whacke dit on and wiped it all of. Unbelievable. Then again I love fairy PS, makes the Le creuset come up a treat...

onlywantsone · 19/02/2009 19:49

bleachhhhhhhh

Bakersman · 19/02/2009 20:05

Same thing happened to my brand new oil skin cloth on day1! I was gutted but that's only about 3 weeks ago and you can't see the pasta sauce stains anymore, as OP said they do fade with time.
I have been trying like mad to get pen and crayon marks off it and finally bought a magic sponge type thing today from Tesco which worked a treat!

Lilyloo · 19/02/2009 20:08

I have tried lots of things hairspray , bleach , stain devil nothing worked as yet..

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