Removing Stains on Vinyl and Linoleum Flooring

If it is linoleum and not vinyl, you can try sprinkling a layer of baking soda over the stain and spraying it with warm water until it is like a paste.

Leave it sit for an hour and then wipe off. Sometimes that works. Sometimes not. If it doesn't work, you can try a second time using a spray of plain white vinegar instead of the water (so the baking soda and vinegar will foam up). Same thing...leave it sit for an hour and wipe up.

If it is vinyl, then you can do the same thing, but after wiping up area, do a final wash down with a white rag soaked with plain 70% Isopropyl Alcohol (I can get a bottle for a dollar or less at our Dollar General). If you get higher % content where you live, add a little water to dilute...as that may be too strong for the floor--we only ever use 70% in our house.

This is a tough sell either way so depending on the age of your floor, the length of time the stain set, and the concentration of the urine, it may or may not ever come out. Hopefully yours will be a success!

Here are a few facts you should know about your floor to help you out.

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1. Did the nail polish remover you used have acetone?
2. The acetone will eat through the finish of your floor.
3. Also, it is important to know if your floor is really linoleum or is it one of the newer types of plastic floors with a shine to it?
4. This is important to know this one. Because if the floor is really linoleum you can actually sand the spot on your floor and apply a new coat of wax to the area.
5. Most linoleum floor is kept waxed and hopefully it is only the wax that has turned yellow.
6. In this case a lightweight sand paper can remove the coat of wax that has turned white and you can apply another coat of wax to your floor.
7. However, if this is one of the new plastic tile floor that is shinny you have ruined the shine on the floor and eaten through the flooring with the nail polish remover.
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8. I am so sorry there isn't much you can do with this now. You will need to replace the tile on the floor to fix this problem.
9. Before attempting this you have nothing to loose to try sanding this down a bit to remove the wax and waxing it again to see if it helps.
10. If it doesn't work, then the tile itself needs to be replaced.

Toilet bowl cleaner spilled on my linoleum, what can I do to remove it? Thanks

Could it be wax build-up? That's what I get around my heating vents. I use a scraper and scrape it off.
Every so often, I strip my floor and re-wax.

An easy way to see if it is wax buildup is to just take a little amonia mixed with water, just in a small paper cup, about half and half. Dab some on the yellowed area and wait a couple of minutes. It it turns sticky and comes up, then it is wax. If nothing happens,it could be heat damage and you will save scraping it and possibly damaging already brittle tile. If you are lucky and it is wax, you can use amonia/water, about 1 pt ammonia to 3 pt water to strip just the small area and save yourself a ton of work.

I got oven cleaner on my linoluem HELP it won't come out!!!

I got oven cleaner on my linoluem HELP it won't come out!!!

Linoleum that has been covered will "amber". Expose it to light and it will recover with no problem.

What a rotten thing to remove. Tried absolutely everything in the cleaning closet. At last a solution. Mix oxyclean powder into a thick paste to scrub away the oven cleaner. It takes a lot of elbow grease but does remove it.

Have you tried the Mr Clean Magic Eraser? http://www.home  cts/eraser.shtml

I don't know if this is the same, but when I got my puppy the same thing happened with the newspapers he was using. I thought it was never going to come out but after washing the floor several times (with regular cleaners, I think I use polmolive or something) over the course of a month or so it eventually came out (or wore off) on its own.

i don't know if methlylated spirit is the same, but acetone-containing nail polish remover can do it.

try a mr. clean magic eraser, scrub well, might help

I assume you're talking about one of those rubber mats to keep from slipping.
If so, put it in the washing machine with a couple of old towels, detergent, and a cup of bleach.

Thanks, but I mean stains on the bottom of the bathtub, not the mat

WOW How wierd that I was going to ask a question like this when I opened this email. I bought a cheap off white bath mat a couple of weeks ago and now have yellow stains resembling that darned mat that I just cannot get out. I have used bleach,comet.baking soda.tilex, Mr clean and whatever else I had around here.

Good luck if you find something and please please post if you do~

Years ago, my 1st husband threw a toilet bowl cleaner that had jammed in the reservoir into the tub instead of the (nearer to him!) trash. I tried everything I could think of for over a year and only saw it fade a little. While I was packing to move out, I cleaned the coffee pot with vinegar and water and poured the steaming hot mixture over the stain out of habit not expecting results because I'd seen no real results before. But it took it right off and since then, it's been my 1st choice for any bad stain.