Washing speaker grilles

[myriad1973]

Does anybody have any tips on washing fabric speaker grilles? I have a 2 year that likes to stick his hands on them after eating bananas....

 

[tcarcio]

I cleaned some fabric grilles once and I used woolite. They came out great.http://www.fabriclink.com/presentations/woolite/fabricwash.html

 

[jamie2112]

The easiest way to solve this is to get rid of the 2 year old I would use woolite as well. It is very easy to work with and will not stain or damage your grills............

 

[walter duque]

Woolite and water in spray bottle. Sprayed grills then I vacuumed the grill, came out like new.

 

[add1t]

I only use woolite to clean all my speaker grills
it won't scratch your grill

 

[lsiberian]

The easiest way to solve this is to get rid of the 2 year old I would use woolite as well. It is very easy to work with and will not stain or damage your grills............

Not as easy as one might think.

 

[JJMP50]

I had removed the grills from my old JBL L1s because they were so dusty with about 15yrs of living in the family room (smoke, etc) they looked gray. Unfortunatly my wife hates grilless speakers so what did I have to lose. I just put the grills in the sink and washed them with the hand held sprayer, sat them on a table for a day to dry and they look fine now although the logos are a little chipped. Maybe some gold metalic model car paint?

 

[Pyrrho]

Just to be clear, remove the grills before spraying them with anything. You don't want to damage the speakers with cleaning solutions. I hope, however, that this already seems obvious to you. Of course, you will need to keep the two year old out of the room while the grills are off, or you may end up with hands on actual speakers instead of grills.

After cleaning, you might also want to mount the speakers too high for the two year old to reach. Keeping things up high is good when you have little children.

 

[myriad1973]

Just to be clear, remove the grills before spraying them with anything. You don't want to damage the speakers with cleaning solutions. I hope, however, that this already seems obvious to you. Of course, you will need to keep the two year old out of the room while the grills are off, or you may end up with hands on actual speakers instead of grills.

After cleaning, you might also want to mount the speakers too high for the two year old to reach. Keeping things up high is good when you have little children.

Yeah, very obvious

Thanks for the input folks. I finally got around to getting some Woolite today. So I soaked the grilles in the bathtub (the fabric is stretched on plastic frames, not metal) for about a half hour and rinsed them with the showerhead. From what I can tell, the stains are gone, including cigarette smoke.... that was in the water. They haven't dried all the way yet for me to tell completely.

 

[myriad1973]

After drying overnight, the Woolite did indeed remove all the stains, including cigarette smoke. The only thing it didn't remove is a small crayon streak about 6 inches long. I guess I'll have to try using a Magic Eraser for that.