Thread: Cleaning Silicone

One of the quickest ways to turn silicone to jelly is attacking it with petrol, but I'm guessing turps will work as well.

I bought "Silicon Remover" from Bunnings. Not sure what's in it but it worked. Turned the silicone to jelly which you scrape off. Took a few goes to get it all, but it got it in the end.

My first thought was Mineral Turps but perhaps you should check on the cartridge as they usually have some mention of clean up method.

I also used the bunnings product to clean up and separate class to a fish tank and altho it took time with several applications to penetrate the thicker sections it did work.

Just an update. I went to Bunnings and had a look at acetone and also the silicone cleaner, and thought that they may be a bit severe on the tiles. The last thing that I want is to make SWMBO unhappy by damaging the tiles.

So I tried petrol with good results, and also mineral turps. I washed over the area afterwards with methylated spirits to remove some of the oiliness and smell.

Whilst I still have some marks to come off, it appears to be that the best results are with petrol. Thought that this may help some.

If you've got a bead say at a 90 degree join the easiest way to remove it IME is to undercut it with a razor blade and then peel it off.

Might work for smears on a tile if that was the problem too, but take care not to chip out the glaze.