Tuck tape residue on Crema Marfil

Hello Maurizio, I hope you can help me. We've done very stupid thing. While waiting for our glass shower doors to be installed, we taped a shower curtain onto our honed (unsealed) crema marfil shower jam using tuck tape and when we took it down, it left a horrible red residue. I've tried to remove same on a sample piece using a solvent that the hardware store recommended called "Goof Off" and it dissolved the tape residue, but somehow liquified the red dye and spread it all over the sample piece. Can't seem to get the pinkness out of it. Do you have a suggestion to remedy this mess? Gratefully, Elaine in Toronto

 

Dear Elaine:

I don't think it was a mistake. If I had a dime for every time I used duct-tape on marble during my contracting years…! What is really weird is the red residue that you report it left. All the duct-tape I ever saw has whitish glue, not red; and the tape itself is silvery… So I really don't know what happened and you're certainly not the one to blame. And Goof-Off is an excellent product to remove adhesive residue…

At any rate, now you have an imbedded stains to deal with (after having removed the adhesive residue), which I assume is to be classified as inorganic. It shouldn't be difficult to get rid of it.

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