Question from Judith
As always, thanks very much, Debra, for your wonderful website. I have learned so much from it.
My question is how would you clean up a spill of petroleum lamp oil from a kitchen floor and wall. We have inherited several beautiful oil lamps from my mom and I had mistakenly thought all of them were empty until two days ago, when my daughter accidentally knocked one of these lamps over. It fell on a tiled floor and against the wall of the kitchen and the floor length side of a wood desk. The smell was horrendous and is still terrible after having my husband clean up the site five times already. We have the windows open as much as possible (it is freezing here in Northern VA)and I sprinkled a lot of baking soda on the surface. I am sure the wall also absorbed a great deal of it and I am not sure what else to do. I need to be in the kitchen and right now I can only stay there for a few minutes. Is there a special cleaning agent that would help? How about the wall and the wood? Thanks so much!!
Debra’s Answer
Readers, any experience with this?
