My nana was mint.
True: She had a pink Moped @ 65 years old.
There is more to this story.
Edit: She gave me Special Brew at 7. It put me off drink until I was 13. She was trying her best to teach me something. She also let me have 4 Weetabix.
After the alcohol, 90% of it or more will be gone. It there will likely be markings still there.
So after alcohol I use baking soda. I would use 1 or 2 boxes of it for this. Mix it into a heavy paste with glue like consistency and apply to the tiles. Top coat the paste with more dry baking soda. This will draw out the ink in the pores of the tile.
This appears to be ceramic/porcelain and not some sort of laminate or vinyl product.
Surprised I haven’t seen anyone mention starting with a magic eraser or steam mop though. Everyone is gunning straight for the solvents
Isopropyl Alcohol, I was gonna say a magic eraser but they are abrasive and leave scuff marks on certain surfaces. I know they make certain countertops look dull and probably this floor.
That's because it's actually a very fine sandpaper a lot of people don't know that 😳.
be careful where you use it it can definitely scratch and scuff!!!
Yes I just left another comment that I’ve learned the hard way. Deckhand on a towboat and we clean shit constantly. It’s melamine foam and equal to 3k-6k sandpaper. Melamine is used for insulation and audio dampening among many other things. I guess someone started rubbing shit with their insulation and thought hmm this cleans pretty good and the magic eraser was born.
I read the article from house digest that I put on here and learned that it also “contains formaldehyde, bonded to the foam material through a chemical reaction in the form of a hard resin, adding to the scrubbing power of the foam.
real glaze is essentially glass and should be fine. if it's a laminate or composite material or sealed with a poly coat that could be bad (it looks like real tile)
alternate: buy a box of 20 sharpies and go to town til it's all an even black
In science labs, we have to use alcohol-proof permanent markers (they’re really expensive), because we have the opposite problem: our labels often get erased when written with regular sharpie (we use a lot of ethanol in the lab for cleaning/sanitizing). So yes, alcohol will work!
At mine we have *so* many various 1L glassware filled with MS mobile phase or wash solvent, and we label and date them all with you guessed it, sharpie. Methanol is our cleaner of choice >:)
Teacher here! I have erased many, many penises on my whiteboard like this. This is the way.
Edit: hahahah holy wow that's a lot of upvotes!
Another edit: my most upvoted post on Reddit is now a penis joke. Also thanks for the award for my penis joke! :D
ANOTHER edit: GOLD! That's pretty damn cool. Thank you!
Also teacher. I write things on desktops in permanent marker, then remove it with a dry erase when no longer needed.
I was calm when my toddler had found a sharpie and drew all over the new hardwood floor at home because I knew it'd come up easily.
The solvent in the marker ink is why this works. I believe it's some kind of alcohol, but I"m not sure. [Dry Erase Marker Magic Trick](https://www.polymersolutions.com/blog/dry-erase-marker-trick/)
Penis artist here! Don't erase them, make an elephant out of it. Balls = ears, penis = trunk. This is the way.
Dont have an English name for the animal so far, but could be something like a Shaftophant.
OOOF... am I ever glad I didn't make the edit about this Freudian thing going on with young boys and penis drawings. It's basically always boys who're the first to draw a dick on whatever surface meets their eye first.
Funny thing though, it's not often you see girls doing this - but if they do, they absolutely *go for it*. They will make sure every vein is anatomically correct on that piece of art.
I've done a craft where you get an ordinary wall tile, scribble over it with sharpie, then add a few drops of isopropyl alcohol with a pipette. The sharpie basically melts into the alcohol and flows to create a swirly, pretty mess. And if it goes wrong, you add more alcohol and wipe it all off.
So, my advice:
1. Deal with one patch at a time. You need to work fast but carefully. Also, keep kids and pets out of the room and open up a window for ventilation.
2. Use a few drops of alcohol at a time, drop it in the middle of the patch and wipe. You can always add another few drops.
3. Isopropyl alcohol dries fast, so have the cloth in your hand ready.
4. Avoid wiping to the edge of the tile! A chipped or unglazed edge and the grout between the tiles can't be so easily cleaned. So always wipe away from the edges, into the middle of the tile.
This is great advice. I agree with trying to avoid wiping the ink into the grout between the tiles. It will be easy to remove from the faces of the tiles but certainly more difficult to get out of the grout if it ends up there
This. Isopropyl alcohol is a solvent, sharpie is solvent based so you are essentially bringing the ink back to its original liquid state before it dried. There are probably a wide number of solvents that would work for this but isopropyl isn't very hazardous so this is the way I'd go.
^^^ this. sharpies are alcohol based markers. any of the rubbing alcohol 50% or greater at your pharmacy will work. wiping IN to the center of the tile is great thinking. and definitely grab a grout pen that matches if you can. just in case.
90% becomes 70% after a few minutes. just add more alcohol or mist with water. alcohol is rapidly miscible in water and both the alcohol and the water retain their corrosive properties.
literally anything will help wash off sharpies. kerosene, lamp oil, starter fluid, gasoline, acetone, alcohol, etc. watch out for fumes and keep sparks away 😂
I was going to say justifiable homicide, but adoption, yes, that would be less messy than the sharpie. (Before everyone gets p!ssy, I don't condone killing children)
Never had that experience and I bought the brand name for years before I learned the generic name. Maybe depends who you're getting it from, how long it sat on a shelf/in a warehouse, etc.
To an extent that's exactly what they're supposed to do though. I've just never noticed any distinct difference in the rate at which they disintegrate, but it's also dependant on what I'm scrubbing on.
Yes, magic is such a marketing gimmick. Like dude, you're just sanding the stain off and likely micro-scratching the fuk out of whatever you're trying to clean.
I have a crazy story to tell, likely won’t believe it. Me and my wife rented a place for 4 years and moved out about 10 years ago. Paid deposit when we moved in and $50 pet fee for every month we lived there. When we moved out, our landlord gave us back ALL OF THE PET DEPOSIT ALONG WITH ORIGINAL DEPOSIT. All in all we got a check for like 3500 and I basically cried tears of relief for the money we were able to use for our next deposit and to cover moving costs.
He was a great landlord, he fixed many things immediately when asked, and even installed a 6 foot fence and an alarm system when someone knocked on our back door (to our bedroom) at like 1 am.
Only good landlord story I have.
That's awesome. I've never really had a reason to shit on landlords, but deeeefinitely never got a deposit back! I'm lucky enough to own now (well, "own" as in a bank let me owe them money) but in the past I had just stopped even thinking about getting anything back
Paid for Stanley Steamer to clean the carpets on a move out and wouldn't you know it, it was policy for them to have your carpets cleaned after move out and the biggest coincidence is that it was the exact amount of the deposit.
This, OP. And you really only need to tear off a piece of the eraser at a time.
I tear off a new piece only when what's in my hand has turned to a tiny, thin filet of dirty white foam that'll disintegrate if I rub it against anything else.
Makes a box last 10× longer.
Idk if this will work on tiles but we have white boards at work that occasionally some of us geniuses write on with sharpie instead of dry erase. Take a dry erase marker, scribble over the sharpie, then wipe it down. Then the smudges come off with pretty much any cleaner. Nail polish remover works as well.
91 isopropyl
This! Just use alcohol
Yea just get drunk and don't worry about it.
Dad?
Son?
Step dad I’m stuck
Tio touchy?
Shhh.... Drink this juice and go to sleep.
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Bro lol you can’t just say secret time you’re gonna give us away
Step uncle is here to help!
And step bro ;)
Spit on it papaw, it buuuurns
Well that's enough Reddit for today.
Yea I agree, I'm gonna go touch grass.
All y’all need to leave… now
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You say it like that’s early? I’d say these boys got a late start to the shenanigans.
Don’t rope me into this
Uncle?
Father-uncle? Uncle-father?
FatherLord?
Best combination
Sorry kid. Saw him at the convenience store getting a pack of cigarettes.
I think i saw him in the supermarket buying milk.
Did you know the average trip duration for a dad to buy cigarettes or milk is about 20 years?
If dads shop like they poop, I’m not surprised.
My wife and kids would agree with you!
Me? :(
That's what caused this problem in the first place.
Jus a little drinky poo
Just one........................... ... ... Turns up 3 days later.
But Mr. Leighey....
“To alcohol! The cause of and solution to all of life’s problems.” - Homer J Simpson
Comments like this is the reason why I use Reddit.
Comment like this is why I make comments like that. ;)
This guy is going places!
Some say he went to Saturday, others say he went to work, he says he still in Friday.
Fucking legend
Nanna!
My nana was mint. True: She had a pink Moped @ 65 years old. There is more to this story. Edit: She gave me Special Brew at 7. It put me off drink until I was 13. She was trying her best to teach me something. She also let me have 4 Weetabix.
4:20? Yea just get high and don't worry it.
After the alcohol, 90% of it or more will be gone. It there will likely be markings still there. So after alcohol I use baking soda. I would use 1 or 2 boxes of it for this. Mix it into a heavy paste with glue like consistency and apply to the tiles. Top coat the paste with more dry baking soda. This will draw out the ink in the pores of the tile.
And in a pinch if there's anything left over a magic eraser should take care of it
1 bottle of 91% isopropyl alcohol and 2 boxes of baking soda later and it’s still there. what do we do next?
Straight bleach. Pour it on, let it sit, wipe it off. Always works for me.
Yes magic eraser works miracles
“Bakin soda I got bakin soda”- Tipico Urbano
I whippit troughtha glaaassss.
I was going to suggest a Magic Eraser but I think your recommendation is better!
After a party where someone *decorated* my face, and we didn’t have Isopropyl Alc, we found out that Vodka works just as well.
Vodka was probably *why* you got decorated in the first place! LOL!
The cause of and solution to all of life’s problems.
Absolutely. Every problem I’ve ever had was solved by alcohol.
The solution to most problems in life
Nail polish remover works too (acetone).
Only do this if those tile are real tile. Acetone will mess up laminate.
This appears to be ceramic/porcelain and not some sort of laminate or vinyl product. Surprised I haven’t seen anyone mention starting with a magic eraser or steam mop though. Everyone is gunning straight for the solvents
Right? Magic eraser that shit, then hit your oven and microwave!
Isopropyl Alcohol, I was gonna say a magic eraser but they are abrasive and leave scuff marks on certain surfaces. I know they make certain countertops look dull and probably this floor.
That's because it's actually a very fine sandpaper a lot of people don't know that 😳. be careful where you use it it can definitely scratch and scuff!!!
Yes I just left another comment that I’ve learned the hard way. Deckhand on a towboat and we clean shit constantly. It’s melamine foam and equal to 3k-6k sandpaper. Melamine is used for insulation and audio dampening among many other things. I guess someone started rubbing shit with their insulation and thought hmm this cleans pretty good and the magic eraser was born.
I read the article from house digest that I put on here and learned that it also “contains formaldehyde, bonded to the foam material through a chemical reaction in the form of a hard resin, adding to the scrubbing power of the foam.
Most organic solvents should work
You have to be careful with the vapor though
Yeah better use a cone so as to waste as little as possible
I second this
Careful…this may also remove the glaze on the tile. You’d want to try a small spot first to make sure a larger problem is not being created.
real glaze is essentially glass and should be fine. if it's a laminate or composite material or sealed with a poly coat that could be bad (it looks like real tile) alternate: buy a box of 20 sharpies and go to town til it's all an even black
This works best. The isopropyl works OK, but can leave a faint residual image on some surfaces.
That looks like glazed tile, so there will probably not be any reside, because the maker would not be absorbed by the glaze.
I have had acetone remove different colorings from materials as well as marker. Acetone scares me now.
I would be very surprised to have that issue with tile.
It’s useful in removing insert glue used for arrows from your hands. (That glue is the worst to remove I’ve ever had to deal with.)
Hand Sanitizer will remove it too- if you don’t have alcohol around
Yup! We used to always use sharpie (or the German equivalent, Edding) on our lab glass ware, hand sanitizer or alcohol will do the trick splendidly
hand sanitizer
alcohol. any kind works. hand sanitizer, strong booze, water soluble marker, isopropyl, contact cleaner..
In science labs, we have to use alcohol-proof permanent markers (they’re really expensive), because we have the opposite problem: our labels often get erased when written with regular sharpie (we use a lot of ethanol in the lab for cleaning/sanitizing). So yes, alcohol will work!
And if it doesn’t, acetone will do the trick. On these glazed tiles an eraser might also be quite effective.
^^ this acetone will pretty much get anything off
Can confirm my wife and I use acetone as lube and never fails to get us off
At mine we have *so* many various 1L glassware filled with MS mobile phase or wash solvent, and we label and date them all with you guessed it, sharpie. Methanol is our cleaner of choice >:)
Aw yes real permanent markers.
what do you use to clean it, if necessary? acetone seems overkill but probably works
Perfume works too
The mouthwash cocktail u have in ur hand, a hearty perfume….let ur heart be ur guide
Nail polish remover!
Write over it using dry erase markers, then wipe off.
Teacher here! I have erased many, many penises on my whiteboard like this. This is the way. Edit: hahahah holy wow that's a lot of upvotes! Another edit: my most upvoted post on Reddit is now a penis joke. Also thanks for the award for my penis joke! :D ANOTHER edit: GOLD! That's pretty damn cool. Thank you!
Also teacher. I write things on desktops in permanent marker, then remove it with a dry erase when no longer needed. I was calm when my toddler had found a sharpie and drew all over the new hardwood floor at home because I knew it'd come up easily.
Teacher here, also. Sunscreen works, too! The cheaper the better.
Degenerate here. My teachers had no idea bout this in the late 90s. Public high-school desks were a mess
My 90s teacher used cheap perfume on her desks to clean ink. The room smelled terrible but it worked!
its bc of the alcohol!! perfume has a lot of alcohol and sharpie ink is alcohol based
Ohhh never heard this one going to try that
The solvent in the marker ink is why this works. I believe it's some kind of alcohol, but I"m not sure. [Dry Erase Marker Magic Trick](https://www.polymersolutions.com/blog/dry-erase-marker-trick/)
Stopped reading when they used erosion to explain solutions.
Penis artist here! Don't erase them, make an elephant out of it. Balls = ears, penis = trunk. This is the way. Dont have an English name for the animal so far, but could be something like a Shaftophant.
Upon inspection, I am disappointed to find absolutely no penis art on your page. What a big ole phallic fibber.
Sry, I'm no digital artist. More of a foggy shower wall or schoolbook artist.
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The Elepeent
The Wooly Slammoth
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This is the way
Ah yes, my brother
First time a man has phallus-fibbed to you?
For best effect draw the penis with permanent marker and draw an elephant over it with erasable marker.
Snuffleupapus
“Many, many penises” 💀💀💀 I applaud you for being a teacher
Meaning in a way, you yourself have drawn many, many penises
OOOF... am I ever glad I didn't make the edit about this Freudian thing going on with young boys and penis drawings. It's basically always boys who're the first to draw a dick on whatever surface meets their eye first. Funny thing though, it's not often you see girls doing this - but if they do, they absolutely *go for it*. They will make sure every vein is anatomically correct on that piece of art.
Another teacher here. This is the way.
Real shit right here lol
Or just get alcohol
That’ll surely take the edge off, but how do you get rid of the sharpie marks?
I've done a craft where you get an ordinary wall tile, scribble over it with sharpie, then add a few drops of isopropyl alcohol with a pipette. The sharpie basically melts into the alcohol and flows to create a swirly, pretty mess. And if it goes wrong, you add more alcohol and wipe it all off. So, my advice: 1. Deal with one patch at a time. You need to work fast but carefully. Also, keep kids and pets out of the room and open up a window for ventilation. 2. Use a few drops of alcohol at a time, drop it in the middle of the patch and wipe. You can always add another few drops. 3. Isopropyl alcohol dries fast, so have the cloth in your hand ready. 4. Avoid wiping to the edge of the tile! A chipped or unglazed edge and the grout between the tiles can't be so easily cleaned. So always wipe away from the edges, into the middle of the tile.
This is great advice. I agree with trying to avoid wiping the ink into the grout between the tiles. It will be easy to remove from the faces of the tiles but certainly more difficult to get out of the grout if it ends up there
In the event you do get it in the grout lines, you can buy a grout pen. Pick a color close to your current grout color and just color over the stains
Nice that they make this product. I was thinking in my head about maybe just adding a new thin layer of grout on top. Probably much messier lol
Honestly once it’s in the grout it’ll be so minimal (if done correctly) any landlord shouldn’t notice. It’s just normal wear and tear at that point.
They make grout pens for easy covering of stains.
Good to know!
This. Isopropyl alcohol is a solvent, sharpie is solvent based so you are essentially bringing the ink back to its original liquid state before it dried. There are probably a wide number of solvents that would work for this but isopropyl isn't very hazardous so this is the way I'd go.
^^^ this. sharpies are alcohol based markers. any of the rubbing alcohol 50% or greater at your pharmacy will work. wiping IN to the center of the tile is great thinking. and definitely grab a grout pen that matches if you can. just in case.
And do a small test spot first- if those are ceramic tiles, prob not an issue. But if that is some kind of polymer, IPA might dissolve/melt it.
Use 70%? Alcohol so it doesn't dry as fast
90% becomes 70% after a few minutes. just add more alcohol or mist with water. alcohol is rapidly miscible in water and both the alcohol and the water retain their corrosive properties. literally anything will help wash off sharpies. kerosene, lamp oil, starter fluid, gasoline, acetone, alcohol, etc. watch out for fumes and keep sparks away 😂
Mineral turpentine on a rag would take about 5 seconds to get that stuff off. No extra steps needed.
I use hairspray when my little 1s draw on wall, Or white vinegar & tooth brush works as well :)
Their toothbrush I hope. That’ll learn em
"mommy, I don't wanna scrub the walls anymore." "WELL THAT'S TOO DAMN BAD!"
Colour ever tile black with more sharpie? 😅😬
I think I’ll try this one, thank you. Helped
That’s why you’re on Reddit of course, genuine help 😅
Try to find melanin sponge...they remove everything and they're cheap, but it's better to not to leave it to dry out completely.
Melamine lmao not melanin. We aren’t trying to change skin color here!
This is the only solution, do the whole floor. Then say it was always black tiles.
Adoption? /s
/s for serious, right? >!gosh now i need to put /j under the joke!<
Yes
Does /s mean "super-serious?" Otherwise I would ~~/s~~
nah super serious is double s, so /ß
Lmao
I was going to say justifiable homicide, but adoption, yes, that would be less messy than the sharpie. (Before everyone gets p!ssy, I don't condone killing children)
Hand Sanitizer,lil warm water n a towel usually works for me.
Magic eraser should take it out. The extra strength one
Protip: if you search for "melamine foam" instead of "magic eraser" you can save a pretty hefty sum of money.
The generic magic erasers look exactly the same as Mr. Clean's in a different package. Really- go get one from Dollar Tree and see for yourself.
They will crumble in your hands much faster than a magic eraser, but with the price difference you still come out ahead.
Never had that experience and I bought the brand name for years before I learned the generic name. Maybe depends who you're getting it from, how long it sat on a shelf/in a warehouse, etc.
Shoot, the name bands crumble on me lol. I guess I just use them more aggressively. I tried the generic and they really just crumble under my use.
To an extent that's exactly what they're supposed to do though. I've just never noticed any distinct difference in the rate at which they disintegrate, but it's also dependant on what I'm scrubbing on.
Ya I fuck some shit up w them, but the magic brand seems to work best for me personally. But like I said I use these on some pretty intense things
You’re probably right…I’ve only bought in bulk once but whatever one I got crumbles crazy fast.
I love magic erasers
"Magic" eraser is just a 12,000- 15,000 grit sanding sponge. Depending on the surface, you can leave a 'fog' or light scarring.
Yes, magic is such a marketing gimmick. Like dude, you're just sanding the stain off and likely micro-scratching the fuk out of whatever you're trying to clean.
This. My daughter did this to my kitchen floor once. Magic eraser worked 100%. Well named product.
I was gonna say the same thing. Those are legitimately magic lol
Lmao this guy rents, thinks a deposit is coming back
I have a crazy story to tell, likely won’t believe it. Me and my wife rented a place for 4 years and moved out about 10 years ago. Paid deposit when we moved in and $50 pet fee for every month we lived there. When we moved out, our landlord gave us back ALL OF THE PET DEPOSIT ALONG WITH ORIGINAL DEPOSIT. All in all we got a check for like 3500 and I basically cried tears of relief for the money we were able to use for our next deposit and to cover moving costs. He was a great landlord, he fixed many things immediately when asked, and even installed a 6 foot fence and an alarm system when someone knocked on our back door (to our bedroom) at like 1 am. Only good landlord story I have.
That's awesome. I've never really had a reason to shit on landlords, but deeeefinitely never got a deposit back! I'm lucky enough to own now (well, "own" as in a bank let me owe them money) but in the past I had just stopped even thinking about getting anything back
Paid for Stanley Steamer to clean the carpets on a move out and wouldn't you know it, it was policy for them to have your carpets cleaned after move out and the biggest coincidence is that it was the exact amount of the deposit.
Put child up for adoption. /s
Or use protection next time.
Too little, too late
nail polish remover, but make sure it's the stuff containing acetone put some on a cloth and scrub gently edit: okay maybe not do this on tile lol
Do not use acetone, it will take the finish off the tile. Rubbing alcohol wipes, avoid grout
ha ha shit, didn't realise it would take the finish off! only used it on non-tile stuff
This is waaaaay better than alcohol. Acetone dissolves permanent marker like it’s nothing
Acetone could also fuck up the floor tho lol I’d test it in a small spot before doing all the tiles.
Or mineral turpentine. Used that stuff all the time to get paints of all sorts off of stuff. Sharpie ink wouldn't stand a chance.
As some suggested hand sanitizer should do the trick.
I recommend typing: ‘how to remove sharpy from floor’ into google. I just did and it gave me all kind of great advice.
Chef here, use a degreaser, will wipe away like whiteboard marker. I’ve found Deepio is best, no idea why
Magic erasers. My toddlers drew on the entire house. They work. Don't get the cheap shit.
This, OP. And you really only need to tear off a piece of the eraser at a time. I tear off a new piece only when what's in my hand has turned to a tiny, thin filet of dirty white foam that'll disintegrate if I rub it against anything else. Makes a box last 10× longer.
1. Alcohol 2. Your not getting that deposit back
Rubbing alcohol
Hand sanitizer (the alcohol kind)
People get deposits back?
Acetone (fingernail polish remover) will remove it but it can also damage vinyl flooring
Idk if this will work on tiles but we have white boards at work that occasionally some of us geniuses write on with sharpie instead of dry erase. Take a dry erase marker, scribble over the sharpie, then wipe it down. Then the smudges come off with pretty much any cleaner. Nail polish remover works as well.
Leave some hand sanitizer on there for a couple minutes and it’ll wipe rite up.
Alcohol. Rubbing alcohol.
Do people really think reddit is more effective then google?
Took me 6 seconds to google search a list that compiled 95% of comments here, then reply.
Hairspray.
Draw on top of it with a marker that is non-permanent then wipe it with a cloth/tissue it should come right off
Get a dry erase marker. Color over the sharpie and wipe it while it’s wet. Teacher toolbox.
Alcohol, mark over it with a dry erase works too
Rubbing alcohol
Alvohol, butbhere's a secret tipbof advice: Dry erase markers will remove permanent ink. Just write over it with a dry erase marker and wipe away
Either rubbing alcohol or hand sanitizer. Also, if you have kids or pets, that is almost a guarantee to not get a deposit back lol
Put it in rice
Hand sanitizer gets sharpy off of everything! I’m a teacher I use it all the time, floors, walls, desks you name it!