About three months ago we started to store our caravan in a barn on a local farm. We went to get it for the first time on Friday and it's covered with millions of small brown dots which have been left by flies, i'm assuming they have gone to the toilet on it! We tried rubbing the stains with multi-surface wipes which didnt do anything, then with Fairy liquid which also didnt even touch them. Is there anything which can get them off? They come off the windows easily, it's just the white plastic which is stained good and proper.
Quote: Originally posted by Belinda H on 08/7/2007
yep get some Fenwicks caravan cleaner it's ace ay getting anything off.
Sorry...but it didn't get the stains off my caravan roof which, incidentally, are probably a combination of bird poo, rodent excreta and general debris/water droplets etc; from the barn roof. I've given up worrying about my roof...I can hardly ever see it and can't reach it properly even balanced on top of a stepladder, so what the eye doesn't see the heart doesn't grieve.
You never wash your house roof or your shed roof...what's so different about a caravan roof?
I am sure what doesn't blow away on the first trip out will be washed away in the first downpour.
we have bought a long handled soft cleaning brush it's long enough to reach right across the top of the van if you stand on the step ladders that works well
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Belinda, the soft brush is great except if you have a sliding sun roof as the brush cannot get under the overlaps on the sliding roof. I am still preplexe as how to clean it off as it has goner green. The fact that I can't see it but know it is there bothers me.
We normally take the caravan to the local jet wash to clean it. Get some strange looks as I take the ladder along to do the roof and even if the high pressure is used, it does not shift the green mould. Obviously when using the high pressure hose one has to be extremely careful where you point the thing, otherwise all the rest of the washes are okay.
Smells great and is very very mildly abraisive. It seems to dissolve most insect marks, tar spots and stray mastic. One tub lasts years and costs £3 or so.
About three months ago we started to store our caravan in a barn on a local farm. We went to get it for the first time on Friday and it's covered with millions of small brown dots which have been left by flies, i'm assuming they have gone to the toilet on it! We tried rubbing the stains with multi-surface wipes which didnt do anything, then with Fairy liquid which also didnt even touch them. Is there anything which can get them off? They come off the windows easily, it's just the white plastic which is stained good and proper.
just a thought it could be rust spots,even more so if you store near a railway line,you get fine particals of rust blown towards the van.or there could be a metal beam overhead in the barn.try from a supermarket cream cleaner with bleach then wash with cold water.it will shift most stuborn stains.dont use it on coloured paint because of the bleach.cost 60p.
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mine is in storage by trees so gets a fair amount of nasty stuff dropped on her i used autoglym engine and machine cleaner shifed them with no problems at all (was recomended this product by a person in the valeting trade )
i still think these brown spots are tiny rust particals that have dropped down and rusted in a circular shape,so tiny you cannot see them but when they rust it forms a round patch of brown.
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Topic: Nasty stains left by flies
