Cleaning with only Water - Even take dried paint from a wall!

As many of you know, we are laying wood flooring in our family room.  It is a big job but so rewarding to completely change the look of a room like that!

I have to share this story with you.  I moved the couch out of its usual parking space and found this!  When I painted the baseboards this cream color a few years ago, I guess I got sloppy on the wood paneling behind it, as you can see in the picture on the right.  I couldn't have this look with my new floor!  So I had to find a solution.



I had heard that a Norwex Envirocloth could take paint off with only water.  Although I love my Norwex Antibacterial microfiber cloths for all sorts of cleaning jobs, I had some doubt that this would be an easy task (I thought it might take a lot of elbow grease to rub dried paint from a surface).  So I snapped this "before picture" for you so I could share the results with you when the project was done.

This picture on the left is of the finished experiment.  It was easy!  I only used water and my Envirocloth and the paint came off with very little effort.








I have used regular washcloths and cleaning rags in the past and this would not have been an easy job with those, if I could have accomplished it at all without ruining the surface on the wood paneling.  The reason it works so well with the Norwex cloth is because of the quality of the microfiber used, I am told.  I am here to tell you it is true.  I could not believe the difference.  My cloth got all the paint out of the little grooves in the wood.  After finishing this I took my cloth all over the house and began scrubbing extra paint off of woodwork and walls with just water.  Mike just loves it when I get inspired to clean occasionally and run around the house scrubbing dirt with a cleaning cloth and a polishing cloth.

Today I got the opportunity to talk to many many women passing my Norwex display table and I either heard this "I love Norwex" or "I have never heard of it".  The ones that loved their Norwex items knew of someone in their inner circle to supply them with more.  The ones that had not heard of Norwex before didn't know me from Adam, so they looked at me like I had 3 heads when I told them of the superior performance of these products and explained to them that they could clean and disinfect their whole house with only water and a cloth or two.  People are so funny, and like me, they are born skeptics.  They just don't want to give up their toxic cleaning chemicals and "fragrances" that make them believe their home is clean. 

If you want more information about Norwex, visit my site at http://julieballard.norwex.biz   and let me know if you have any questions!