Anyone Know how to Remove Biro from Leather Settees?

Someone scribbled all over the settee at home and I need to remove it fast.

Any know how I can accomplish this??

aidan_walsh

The sadly defunct Google Answers has some suggestions.

Ruu_Old

Moved from AH, redirect still there.
An article here has a few tips but it hasn't happened to me so I'm not sure if it works or not.

I checked there. A lot of people were contradicting one another with thier advice. I just thought boards members may be slightly more trustworthy.

monkeyfudge

Sounds like a Golden Pages advert in the making.

delly

You could try spraying a bit of hairspray on it.

Qwerty?

Reid Furniture have a leather care kit that had a biro remover, works excellently.

Do-more

My 3 year old destroyed the back seat (grey fabric) of our car with blue biro after searching the net I used hair spray (as Delly has already suggested;) ) and was amazed at how easily the stains were removed! (I think it's the alcohol in the hairspray that does the magic)

Not sure if it will work on leather but I expect it should, try putting a fresh biro mark on the underneath of the sofa and then try removing it as a test....

Thanks for all the tips. We found a Reids furniture care kit and I plan on tackling it later.

DublinWriter

monkeyfudge wrote:

Sounds like a Golden Pages advert in the making.

Showing (y)our age dude, and besides that particular ad was all about French Polishing. Ever try and French Polish a leather settee? Go on...I dare you.

miles teg

slighlty related...
I recently stained my couch with nitromors/stripped paint. Anyone know to remove that...before her good self sees it and castrates me

Thanks