a good cleaner for vinyl walls

[FreshAir]

As we were about to leave from the PO that we purchased our Tradewind a year ago the lady grabbed a spray bottle of 'Patio Furniture Cleaner' and handed it to us. She says that it removed years of grime from the walls of our 'new' clean AS. However, I suspect that all cleaners for vinyl are made of the same ingrediants.....maybe by the same manufacturer.

Neil and Lynn.

[steelbird312]

In a purple gallon jug at Walmart automotive. Make sure you get the concentrated soap-do not get the concrete cleaner.
After you dilute it 4 to 1, you have an extremely powerful cleaner, 45 gallons for about $6.
Use rubber gloves, and a spray bottle. Even after using other cleaners, you can see a brown residue form almost as quickly as you spray it on.
The spray droplets are pretty potent. Spray gently, and rinse well. I've used many of the froementioned, and I swear by this stuff.

[dwightdi]

The vinyl wall coverings contain two plasticizing liquids which oxidize with age and become incompatible with the vinyl. They the "spew" to the surface. They then further oxidize and become sticky. It is only a matter of time and temperature till it occurs. You need to solubalize the goo. Spray Nine is a good material to use. Once you have got it all off, you can seal more from coming out of solution by using a acrylic liquid latex polish like floor polish to retard it getting sticky again for quite some time. As the vinyl loses its plasticizer its volume is reduced and the wall covering will shrink and come loose from the edges where it is weakly adhered. It may also shrink non-uniformally and form wrinkles in the paper. This is particularly a problem when the vinyl is applied to the plywood partions because the plywood also draws the plasticizer out of the vinyl and the adhesive they used was not especially good.