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Our two year old went nuts on the stainless steel fridge door with a fridge magnet - lots of nice circular scratches on it now - who would have though to leave metal objects attached to the side of an object with a big smooth metal surface.
So middle class problems aside (it doesn't have a ghastly water dispenser in the middle of it) has anyone ever tackled scratches on a stainless steel fridge door, or do I hope I have toddler damage on my contents policy?
I've had a scan on the internet and there's various how-tos out there using bicarb, t-cut, toothpaste and the like but this place has the highest quotient of desirable-goods-to-toddlers on the planet so thought I'd give it a go to see if anyone's done it.
If it doesn't work you could always wrap it.
Wrap the child ?
Novel.
How about you feel less about material things whilst you have small children ?
Blue scotchbrite. Worked fine on our Falcon stove top
Frame it!
You have a two year old. I wouldn't rush to fix anything quite yet 🙂
Fwiw ive found the toothpaste/bicarb tricks to be worthless. I would be taking a polishing disk and a drill to it but trying somewhere inconspicuous first. If its a matt finish then I have no idea 🙁 - a fine scouring pad? 0000 wire wool?
Yeah not in a rush to fix it until he's old enough for a kicking (joooooooke) but thought I'd have a pop at it first to see if there's any likelihood of salvation. It happened on my watch though so keen to be 'proactive' despite a general 'balls to that I'm surprised it lasted this long' view.
Probably just end up painting it like a hippy's wheely bin.
It will be covered in crapulous nursery art in no time at all. Enjoy.
He's got an older brother and sister and their art is loads better so he doesn't have a chance.
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He'll probably claim his scratchings are art, anyhow. You just 'don't get it'. 🙂
This fridge, does it contain any pudding materials?
If it doesn't work you could always wrap it.
You are Christo and I claim my five cans.
Abduct a hipster designer give them an angle grinder and tell them to sort it.
How about you feel less about material things whilst you have small children ?
I have learnt this
When my daughter was two, she got a magic marker and drew faces on lots of expensive stuff. I briefly considered throwing her a beating but then realized that all my friends are pinko-liberals who would probably take her side so I just decided to chalk it up as one of those amusing things that kids do.
Just a toddler being one.
Think of it as a story for the future.
If it's steel then it can be polished out.
Can't tell you how difficult that will be without seeing it.
See yesterday's misreading title threads
Two Year Old Walnut on Stainless Steel fridge door -
Just wait till they can reach the hardwood worktops, smashing their breakfast bowls down & spilling milk. Went from a designer kitchen to a character kitchen quite quickly.
Our living room walls resemble an art installation. Squiggles in multiple colours everywhere 😯
There is no way I'm decorating or doing anything about it until he's at least six. He's a proper crafty one though. Hides crayons all around the room. Think you've got them all, leave the room and then come back to a new piece of art from a smuggled crayon! Seems to have grown out of it now though.
Pics?
Stainless isn't magnetic
that's generally true but not universally true. Some stainless is magnetic, just not very. Apparently the other solution is just to use a thin veneer of stainless with regular steel behindStainless isn't magnetic
oh, and I took a quick look and apparently you shouldn't use wire wool so scratch that solution (excuse pun)
316 isn't magnetic . 304 is .
Back to the op,Mr Hutch has it ,cover the fridge in more "art".
It depends a lot on the surface finish of the material, whether it is actually stainless or just 'stainless effect' and whether there is any kind of top coating applied....
Where I used to work we made industrial equipment in 316 enclosures rated to IP66. The panels were stainless steel with a ground surface. Every now & again one would get scratched in build or test & could normally be recovered with a lot of elbow grease, a nylon scourer and some kitchen cleaner like Jif (or Cif as I think it's called these days...).
But equally, if the surface finish isn't right you could make a right pigs ear of it doing that!!
Olive oil. We had a similar issue in a rented flat (only it was my wife so I was allowed to become apoplectic and storm around the house) and buffing it with olive oil covered so the scratches
https://www.amazon.co.uk/STAINLESS-STEEL-ADHESIVE-APPLIANCE-COVER/dp/B008AJT7R0
Or go with something a bit more colourful while you have kids.
I'd not rush for perfection with a 2yr old....
You can start with auto restorer (In the UK we have a brand called T-cut)
You can also buy specialist appliance paint... but the results are likely to be poor unless you repaint the whole front.
I've used the appliance paint to cover some home-made parts around the extractor hood and it works quite well when you do the whole thing if you get a decent color match.