How To Deep Clean Dry Erase Board

Last updated: May 23, 2017

I have this white board in my office, and it has all of my strategies, ideas and sayings most work, along with a few doodles that my husband made for me (which I don't take the heart to erase). It's pretty personal so I'm not going to photo it. But, if you've ever had one, you'll know what I mean.

And similar every human whose ever used a whiteboard, I'm perpetually disappointed with the felt eraser provided with the white board. Information technology streaks, leaves dusty crud behind, doesn't become everything off etc. Further, sky foreclose you exit anything on your whiteboard longer than a week, it becomes nigh impossible to wipe off. You're always left with something, a little ghost of ideas past.

white board 3 — Run into all those orangish dots? That'south what I want to clean..

white board 4 — Even with vigorous erasing, no luck.

What I've tried

To try and tackle this, I've used cleaning products, water, microfiber cloths (bad idea) and a whack of other cleaning tools and products.

Time and again, my whiteboard never looks, well, white.

Frustrating.

What I did

I had a canteen of rubbing alcohol in my office (which is perfectly normal if you exercise what I do) and recalled hearing that rubbing alcohol gets any whiteboard clean. I felt inspired! So I broke open the bottle, grabbed a tissue and tried it out.