How to Clean An Off White Wall or Other Walls, and 

AVOID THE WALL LOOP FROM HECK

Deja Vu All Over Right Away! Right you want to clean your wall so the property manager likes you before she shows up, right! You want her like of love, if like me you want your walls beautious 24 years ago! I don't use cleansers or bleach, horrible cancer causing, kidney and liver damaging fumes. Worse yet it may be a bleach stain on your rug since rugs often "allow bleach with no problem".

 I go to the Wikihow site in hopes of a solution, and it says to hoover the wall, then use vinegar, which won't stain the wall. Over the 30 inspections I've been through, I often used just pictures and decorations or furniture to shield my wall, yet you may find the loop of dread;

 Clean your walls with many cleansers, yes including the wiki leak of vino, and the wall seems damaged; it looks worse than before you "cleaned". I tried this with bleach, ammonia, vinegar, water, baking soda, and the loop was on and on. Like a sort of 70's reblend of the loop each year with the visit by the manager my walls seemed to get worse and worse, needing more and more wall decorations. And I had to clean around the edges of the decorations, and set them just right. It took months it seemed.

 Wall decorations are of worth, and here I'll show you three other simple ways I've learned in almost 30 years so you can save huge labor and time keeping your walls looking good. I know the second and third methods are for off white or white walls with a matte finish, I don't know if these methods will work for chalky type walls. Use at this site your own risk.

#1 PAINTING WITH GLOSS COAT

 The site painter dude, paints the house once in a while, and he says, I'm surprised you pass the inspection, your walls really need painting at no cost! Why did he say this? YOUR AD HERE! So he painted your kitchen gloss white, and it's great, the dirt is so clean, the dirt slides up the wall it's so clean and easy to clean. Gloss allows scrubbing without harm, it's durable, and it's "slick" so much easier to clean. I was unaware they would paint at no cost here where I live, so if you live in apartments like I live in here, ask your landlord if they do painting at no charge or what it costs. And ask for gloss coat for your house. 

 For most spills, it's super easy to clean. Some few spills take caution; while gloss is good for most stains, tomato or chili seems to be fused with the wall and I have no way of removing the land of 1000 spots even if they are small, this is the main caution with gloss walls, otherwise the're a breeze to clean vs like matte finish without these two other methods at any rate;


#2 Diatomaceous Earth DE

DE is a health booster well known in agriculture with a long history of safety and value for many uses. Other than risk of bronchitis from the dust which causes silicosis if inhaled long term, it's considered safe. Diatomaceous Earth is from diatoms, small silica based lifeforms that lived millions of years ago. Later erosion made them super abrasive with tiny bacteria level cutting edges that are almost as sharp as diamond. As I say above the wikihow site says to use vinegar because it doesn't stain and cleans the wall. This just isn't much true, and like most you may have tried rubbing baking soda on the spot on the wall in hopes of "our reasonable belief" of abrasion to wear away the offending bark, without damage to the deeper area of paint below the spot. This seems like a good idea if cleaners don't clean, abrasion would seem more powerful. Yet this often will damage your wall because baking soda cutting edges are neither as dry and thus sharp, nor are they small enough for precision abrasion. Baking soda damages your wall by loosening and moistening the paint, so if the spot is bad the paint is removed with it. And it's too white, and after you've cleansed all the walls there is a lot of baking soda around on your rug, and the wall is often damaged for your labor for your site manager and for Betsy and mom, not to mention Biff.

Diatomaceous improves a lot here, it's got an off white hue even while you can use it like to cleanse a shelf, the abrasion is just right, you're out of the wall loop! 4/5ths more, enough for no panic, and no over light or dark over uneasy walls!

 To use pour some spoonfulls of DE in like a 32 ounce jar with a flip top snap opening (I'm experimenting with a spray jug instead for a more easy spray pour method, don't know yet if it will clog, while this method may disperse the "dust" in the air more so the snap top may be best) pour the water in, shake before each use. Even so use caution with DE since silicosis over many years can cause bronchitis, with a 95% mortality rate for one year if severe. Remember also that only food grade Diatomaceous Earth is considered to be safe. The dust is a problem when you pour it in while no problem just to use wet from the bottle so to pour it in I use a funnel outside in the wind, if not I'll find weather control near the sweet weather woman when she sees me in summer. To counteract the silica dust I use the funnel and the water in the jug which makes the Diatomaceous "Earth", "Mud" and you can also put clay soaked in water in your nose with a cotton swab because clay is a wonderous detoxifier and like a super absorbent chemical or toxin sponge, that neutralizes the DE before it contacts your nose lining. The main sniff problem was pouring the DE in the snap jug before using it on the walls, the wall use didn't cause this.

 Hoover away spiderwebs before you clean the wall. Apply DE with a clean paper tissue. This is important because the fibers of the paper blend in with the DE on the wall for an awesome lightening effect, the DE itself is lighter brown or light yellowish tan out of the bottle, you can adjust the hue with more or less scrubbing... To remove a spot like a bit of a smudge of the usual sort like dander around a light zone, add from the jug and rub it in. It removes even like pencil marks with abrasion so it's more all purpose than chemical "cleaners", and many other types of smudge like a dream vs other methods wall without "much" harm to the wall! Or at any rate the best I've seen in almost 30 years. And no streaks so you don't have to start at the bottom of the wall and work your way up as other sites recommend. It leaves the wall looking almost as good as new, a bit off off white. You can't see it  directly facing the wall, I can see the general (much reduced) smudge at almost parallel with the wall, but this may have been from the stain itself. And it's much better than any other method I've seen in my 30 rounds of  my most intensive wall cleansing.

 They say when you are not fit a hill looks steeper than if you are, and our brain thinks of what we own as an extension of out life. It's like looking at my walls with a much stronger vision than each year the dread at the end of the month before the inspection where I move up to my wall and see all this stuff I hadn't even seen to clean, and no way to remove it even if I wanted to! The enlightenment of light walls has arrived. DE is much better than this and seems better than many awful types of cleansers. And even better yet, it's a real good way to remove 99% of ants bees, roaches, wasps, bees, dust mites and more, it's called the bug killer you eat, as I say here. CLICK HERE or see my link at the end of the post.

#3 SPOT PAINTING

This is only the third method, a last resort unless you want to paint the whole room. For my off white wall, I find sometimes deeper cuts or other stuff like ink or holes from thumbtacks I can't remove with DE. It's years yet till I can get a gloss coat since they've only painted 7 years ago, and they are not up to it yet. It's a matte finish, not yet gloss yet, it's piling up, inspection is coming, what to do to finish up if DE is not up to it.  (For thumbtack holes you might try covering over with a bit of white chalk though it takes often more than one or two twists of the chalk to make it seem level. Or DE smooths it over by abrasion if you rub it a lot, and this takes a lot of rubbing, these are the only two methods I've yet seen for thumbtack holes.) 

 For off white walls butter cream Ceramcoat paint is just the right color (for on white you can use white gesso, a superwhite paint that artists use that's whiter than acrylic paint and is more opaque.) The Ceramcoat paint is like 3 dollars a tube and I bought three or four tubes to be ready since they might only be worth two or 3 inspections.

You always want to use a smaller brush than the area you need to paint. Dip your more flat brush in water and then in the paint, then squeeze out the paint a bit from the brush on the side of the bottle so it's the right amount. Too much will glob on your wall, too little won't shield the wall well. Always give only one coat and let dry. Then paint over if it needs it and you let the right blend of texture show through for just the right skill, not enough or too much change looks sloppier. The best idea is to keep it simple, get in and get out, make hay while the wall is shining. Minimal edits advised

 Thanks for listening, Hope This Helps, Took Me 30 Go Rounds So I Find This For You, Bless You Child!

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