How to Get Soot Off the Wall
- 1). Open doors and windows, and run fans in the room to help circulate air and ventilate the area.
- 2). Put on a pair of rubber gloves. Protect flooring below the wall by laying a dropcloth or plastic tarp over it.
- 3). Fill a plastic bucket with 1 gallon of cold water, and add 1 tbsp. of trisodium phosphate. Fill a second plastic bucket with 1 gallon of plain water. Set both buckets near your work area.
- 4). Saturate a sponge in the trisodium phosphate solution. Starting at the bottom, scrub the wall with the sponge, working your way up. Starting at the bottom of the wall will prevent drip marks.
- 5). Rinse the dirty sponge in the water-filled bucket.
- 6). Continue scrubbing the wall with the sponge, rinsing it when soiled, until you have removed the soot from the wall.
- 7). As you work, wipe the mixture off the wall with a clean cloth dampened in water. Let the wall air-dry.
