A plea from the wife: hemming tape/web

[T40ORA]

Here's a challenge!

My wife has managed to accidentally iron some of that webbing stuff used for hemming trousers on the outside of a pair of her trews (the same night as she managed to iron a plastice carrier bag!) and it's obviously made a mess. Anyone know how to remove it?

[schmalex]

According to Mrs Schmalex, you have 2 options:

1: lay the garment with the glue facing upwards, put some greaseproof paper over it & then press a warm / hot iron on top of the greaseproof paper.

2: You could try freezing them in the deep freeze & then picking the glue off

However, by the way her nose wrinkled when I asked her, I would suggest that you are somewhat buggered.

[T40ORA]

Ah well. It gives her an excuse to go shopping again.

Please thank your wife - I'll pass the tips on and wait for her to either set fire to the greaseproof paper or rip them, taking them from th freezer when they stick to the ice

[VxDuncan]

What I believe happened is that your wife decided that those trousers either:
- made her look fat / her bum look big
- didn't go with her new shoes
- weren't as nice as her friend at work / Cheryl Coles new trousers
- were last seasons (what ever that means)
- were the ones she was wearing when she heard Steven Gately had died and were therefore somehow responsible for his death

Hence they had to be trashed so a new pair will be required. Howver they won't be thrown away, merely put back into the wardrobe in the "summer clothes" section should Davina McCall be spotted in a pair and science progresses to such a point as to where the glue can be removed.

Hope that helps.

If it's adhesive it might have a solvent... I'd get a bit of the tape (not the trousers!) and start pouring chemicals over it!

[T40ORA]

VxDuncan said:

What I believe happened is that your wife decided that those trousers either:
- made her look fat / her bum look big
- didn't go with her new shoes
- weren't as nice as her friend at work / Cheryl Coles new trousers
- were last seasons (what ever that means)
- were the ones she was wearing when she heard Steven Gately had died and were therefore somehow responsible for his death

Hence they had to be trashed so a new pair will be required. Howver they won't be thrown away, merely put back into the wardrobe in the "summer clothes" section should Davina McCall be spotted in a pair and science progresses to such a point as to where the glue can be removed.

Hope that helps.

Sounds suspiciously like the voice of experience talking there

And much as I had thought. But will, as you have suggested, try pouring various solvents over the wife to see what happens...