Gale has discoverd gorgeous Textolite in her kitchen - but needs our help! Any answers, ReRe community?
Mid Mod Pam on Mar 15 2008 at 1:25 pm | Filed under: bathroom, kitchen
Anyone out there experienced in this issue? How great it would be to help Gail save her vintage “Twilight” (See my post of a few months ago - this stuff is AWESOME!):
We peeled back an ugly putty colored laminate backsplash in our kitchen and lo! The whole thing is covered in Azure Twilight GE Textolite! It’s stamped on the top with “years of wear. . . minutes of care.” The problem is that it’s covered with a yellowish glue. Does anyone know if Textolite can hold up to strong solvents, like Bix stripper or something? I would love to be able to save the Textolite, but it needs a strong cleaner. Goo Gone didn’t even budge it.
Thanks,
Gale
Our products for removing this stuff are different here in NZ but my dh who is the manager of a hardware store said for her to pop into her local hardware and they hopefully will advise her on what she can use. Why anyone would want to bench over such an awesome vintage product is beyond me…
Gale, you are so lucky!! The other day in a Habitat for Humanity ReStore I saw some Dusty Pink Twilight formica. Yum.
One thing you might try is to call those 800 numbers that are on the labels of different stripping products. Perhaps they’d have information about whether it would harm Formica.