{"id":1043,"date":"2024-06-12T20:38:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T18:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2024-11-16T22:29:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T21:29:07","slug":"how-to-get-a-very-dirty-whiteboard-sparkly-clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/how-to-get-a-very-dirty-whiteboard-sparkly-clean\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get a very dirty whiteboard sparkly clean"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When you let the writing on whiteboards stay on for long enough \u2013 say, a couple of month \u2013 dry-erase markers stop being \u201cdry-erase\u201d and start being \u201cleave unwipeable shadowy traces behind\u201d. You\u2019re left with an unsightly board, no matter how often you wipe. Water doesn\u2019t help, at least not against dried up German Edding markers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even worse are traces of the slim tape that some teams use to create tables on their boards. Its remains are stickier than candy floss and way uglier.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.de\/Wepos-2000102408-Kunststoff-Intensiv-Reiniger\/dp\/B00236GPAI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corinnabaldauf.de\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/wepos-kunststoffreiniger-114x300.png\" alt=\"wepos-kunststoffreiniger\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Fear not, my colleague Frieda has the miracle cure: Clean your whiteboard with \u201cWepos Kunstoffreiniger\u201d (= Wepos plastics cleaner) and it will become perfectly clean and smoother than a baby\u2019s butt. Way smoother, actually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s also the catch: <strong>After wiping your board with the cleaner you have to wipe it with water.<\/strong> Otherwise no sticky note will stick to the board. Try it, it\u2019s quite fascinating. The sticky notes fall right off of the infinitely smooth surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you don\u2019t have tape traces you can also get rid of the old marker markings with a wet microfibre cloth. Again, kudos to Frieda for finding this trick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The very last resort, for people without any equipment, is ye olde overwriting trick: Retrace the old writing with a whiteboard marker. The solvents in the marker\u2019s color will also work on the old markings and make them wipeable again. It\u2019s works, it\u2019s just tedious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you have any neat tricks for cleaning dried-in markers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><h3><strong>PS: Did you know there's a Retromat eBook Bundle? Ready-made retrospective plans for beginners and all activities from Retromat for experienced facilitators. <a href=\"https:\/\/leanpub.com\/b\/retromat-bundle-agile-retrospectives\">Check out the Retromat books<\/a><\/strong><\/h3><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you let the writing on whiteboards stay on for long enough \u2013 say, a couple of month \u2013 dry-erase markers stop being \u201cdry-erase\u201d and start being \u201cleave unwipeable shadowy traces behind\u201d. You\u2019re left with an unsightly board, no matter how often you wipe. Water doesn\u2019t help, at least not against dried up German Edding &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/how-to-get-a-very-dirty-whiteboard-sparkly-clean\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to get a very dirty whiteboard sparkly clean&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1056,"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retromat.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}