I have looked at that cloudy spot for three years, making myself sick every time. Worked great. I have just used a white towel and the steam iron , i went over it gently 3 times and wipeing the miosture away and rubbed in little teak oil and the stain has completely gone. This tip is amazing, thank you! Not only did it remove the white stain, it also removed a blue marker stain that my kids left on the table years ago (they were preschoolers then and are in high school and college now)! Had been looking for a solution regularly on the net and decided to try again a few days ago. I have just followed your instructions and placed a white towel over the mark and put the steaming iron on it for just a few seconds and the mark is almost completely gone. Time spent fixing heat mark 30 seconds. Before my very eyes! Iron on high with steam held 2 inches above spot, in circular motions. Fantastic! If you are the least bit afraid of making it worse use toothpaste. Im not sure if its varnish or Shellac or even what wood type it is…i just know its relatively new! When I saw the hairdryer alternative I tried it (didn’t seem as “extreme” ) and even though the marks seemed to faint slightly I can’t say it was a success. The steam iron made giant cloudy spots, but I turned the heat down and turned off the steam and went back over it with the dry iron and a dry towel and they went away. I read these posts and thought NO WAY will that work but I thought i have nothing to loose so i gave it a go and i was so shocked when it actually worked so don’t be afraid give it a try as it REALLY does work .. Fantastic – thank you again !! CAN’T BELIEVE THIS WORKED! Thanks, Mine happened from a pizza box too! I’m thinking I partly rubbed off the finish? I did it last night and it worked! I found this website and followed the directions. Remove it after about 30 seconds and try again. Last year’s stain is still there, but it is much less visible (barely there) and I didn’t want to make things worse after three sessions with the steam iron. Am amazed. The results are amazing and it worked with in seconds saving me pounds on expensive restoration! Be sure not to do it on laminate, like counter tops. It really Works!! I did it and it worked. The spots came up but the finish looked a little dull at first. Mine is caused by a vaporizer setting on a folded up beach towel all night. Took about 5 or 6 times on each stain but they eventually vanished. I googled white spots on table and it brought me to this link. After finding this tip, my husband saw what I was doing and he thought it was the craziest thing ever, and had no hope that it would work. NOT ONLY DID THIS NOT WORK, IT LEFT A MARK THE SHAPE OF AN IRON ON MY TABLE! i checked a few other website recommendations confirming this recommendation. We have a solid maple dining table which has a cherry finish, varnished not shellac, It sustained a white stain the size of a place mat apprx 12″x18″. And my wife was so psyched that our table wasn’t ruined….. My dad was “helping” at dinner and placed a hot plate on my table …. Unbelievable! I just kinda smiled (practicaly thru tears) and said don’t worry about we can get it fixed. The tea caused ‘cloud-like’ marks to appear (similar to what others are saying). Of course it didn’t! Birch wood stained dark chestnut, lacquer finish. Place the iron on the cloth directly over the stain and apply slight pressure for three to five minutes. I was sceptical that this would work and not make it worse, but all the marks are gone. You would be putting more moisture back in when you use steam! I immediately removed the tea towel and the ring had disappeared! Very happy. I thought it was ruined. Mix this with a little bit of mayonaise...the real stuff...and make a paste. OMG! . Wow, that is amazing. Hasn’t got all the mark out but has reduced it from “oh my god white” to a slightly lighter shade of the wood colour. Just a couple seconds with a heat gun and it will literally evaporate the stain without any worry since there will be no direct contact of an iron. Hesitantly I tried it and wala, the stain was gone. …. Thank you so much for saving my beloved table! Just like magic! Now I can go watch football! Hot pizza box was place there last night causing the marks, this morning I read the tips and hints from this website and grabbed my steam iron and tea towel and ironed (medium hot and with steam) those white foggy marks completely away. Rub in with the grain then wipe off. Thank you so much!! Should I continue doing it or do it for a longer period of time to get the stains off completely?? Finished it off with the olive oil with good result. I then tried straight toothpaste and voila! Step 3 Spread the paste thickly over the stain, scrubbing it with a toothbrush. Thank you soooo much!!!!! Rub in Miracle Whip (Mayonnaise) and wipe off after an hour. I really can’t believe it and my wife will be thrilled when she gets home. I’m moving and almost got rid of it!!! Hot steam with white towel for maybe 15 seconds. wow! At first I thought are they for real? The Large white mark came right off. Oh my Dana, I left a pizza box on my mums coffee table last night and have the dreaded white mark!! Only problem was it came with a big round mark in the middle. The only thing I regret was that I did not take a before and after picture. Needless to say that I was horrified when a piece of microwaved pizza on a paper plate left a white scorch mark. With some trepidation still but also cautious confidence from my first success, I now went for the full Monty – the much larger heat stain on our dining table. thank you so much! Then I tried the steam iron and I could not believe my eyes! Awesome, this worked very well and very fast! I used this trick with the iron+stem and it worked fine. I’ll wait a while to see how it is later, but for now it looks good. But now the floor damage is undone, the curtains are fixed, and I can smile again. But this time, Mr. Clean was not up to the job. The stains are a little fainter but the finish is now dull and not smooth anymore, like it melted in the heat. I had family over and had 8 big white marks on my dinner table (shouldn’t have gone with paper plates and should have used place mats!) OMG this really works I tried it on all my water marks and I had MANY, worked on everything ,so easy and fast ,everyone should try this… get rid of white spots forever……. Thanks so much for the great tip! Should have “googled” this a year ago. First I used a hairdryer, but that did absolutely nothing. I have just moved in to a brand new fully furnished apartment after setting a hot drink down on the bedside table, I noticed the same heat stains! We are house-sitting and my husband put a large pack of fish and chips right in the centre of the table last night, causing a large white heat mark. … have just tried it with a hot steam iron on an old white mark and a new one from last night … it works!! I used a face flannel with Iron on hot. Unbelievable. It’s a miracle!! My husband and I own a furniture repair business, but don’t do a lot of wood repairs. Amazing! Devastated I blamed everyone in the house for being careless. Try again if need be. I just came down for breakfast this morning and my fiance said “i just ruined the coffee table”. Sweet!!!! I used a travel iron with a towel on my veneer table. These were fresh marks, but I don’t see any real reason why this would’nt work on older stains. This tip has saved me from getting into trouble with my mum. Any suggestions or comments? maghany dining table, had party paper plate with hot food on them left white marks.french polisher want £100 to look at table never mind fixing it read your tip and tried with just the iron hovering over marks and within seconds they were gone. After trying the steam, which made it worse and the baking soda paste, which also made it worse I tried a walnut! The white marks are gone. OK. Three coffee cup rings on my good oak table. This worked on my table without any changes to the original directions. left hot corn on the cob off the grill on a paper plate on our favorite dark wood breakfast table. During cleanup is when we picked up the roaster and noticed a whitish spot about 9″x9″. Thank you thank you. It worked like magic !!!!! Your most recent party left lots of watermark rings on your wood furniture. Works like a charm! I noticed it, and I had previously tried Vaseline, mayonnaise, and even tried light steel wool, (tip: for professionals ONLY). As my son said, it was completely wrecked anyway with a huge circular pizza white mark on it as well as small marks on other parts of the table. The combo of the hot moisture and very thin paper left a white mark the size of a dinner plate. My brother in law who decided to put a pot of cooked potatoes on top of a towel on the table will be relieved. See my post below – I switched to an iron with smaller holes and that was actually level (bad iron had a dent in it, made marks!) Thank you!!!!!!! What did I have to lose? I used my iron on the lowest steam setting and placed it on a folded light white towel over the marks. I used the cloth with high heat and no steam…worked liked magic. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website. It is now an hour later, and it looks gorgeous … I crapped myself with excitement! When it happened I just smiled and said, “It’s ok, it’s just a table.” I didn’t want to hurt my company’s feelings. Afterwards I applied English Leather to the entire table top and it looks great. Both tables are as new. Had just finished Thanksgiving lunch and and my wife was sadden by a square white stain on her dark cherry dinning room table. thanks so much! Comes with either chairs or picnic benches. I polished my table with lemon polish and it is as good as new! It worked! Wow! I kept the iron moving and then removed the towel and ‘dried’ the table with rough movements. In fact, you can even sand and stain veneer furniture if you want to give it an updated look. I gave up, feeling that to continue doing this would spread it even further. I took a white towel layed it flat on the table, and ironed with the steam on. Just another classic case of what momma don’t know don’t hurt her. OMG this is amazing. Other Ways to Remove Stubborn Veneer. Yikes! we got all of the stains out except for the water ring which isn’t too bad. Worked great. Eventually the huge white stains on my cheapy beech veneer IKEA dining table came out. Parents away and thanks to this they will never know! At first I was a bit to keen to lift it as soon as I had released the steam. I LOVE my birch with a cherry finish kitchen table, and absolutely sick over the white heat stain. I cant believe it. I should also mention at first I had the heat dial all the way turned up, but my first attempt with the towel actually did leave a slight steam mark outside of the towel, so I turned the heat down a smidge and was fine after that! !we had a few white heat stains(who knows how they got there) on a dark espresso stained table that was only a year old. I have to come back to the site to say thank you. Immediately tried to look up how to fix it. It removed the ring but its now got a huge white patch where the iron was. THANK YOU SOOOOOOOO MUCH! We bought a very expensive cherry table about five years ago. My sister was baking cookies and set the hot cookie sheet on a towel on my moms beautiful granite/cherry wood table. Thanks for the tip!!! Can confirm. THANK YOU. We put a hot casserole on a braided fabric trivet on my antique buffet. the mark is totally gone and the olive oil conditioned the table and made it so shiny. Very upset this morning to find a large square white mark on the table from our bowl of rice from last night. It worked like a charm. THIS IS REMARKABLE !! I put a paper plate of hot food on my beautiful dining table and when I picked it up, I had a huge white mark the size of the bottom of the plate! It worked straight away!! Would love to know if the table can be coated with anything that wont do this. Amazing! Well when I woke up today the heat and the water on the table created a big white mark which almost caused me to throw up. Thanks so much for the original post! Thank you so much. A true skeptic here….but no more. I’ve had cloudy marks on my wooden table for a couple of years (at least) and never dared to try taking them out. I can not tell you how HAPPY I am that the iron worked. I even got an older coffee cup stain off too! Cha-ching! “Hair of the dog,” I guess. Once again, thanks so much for the wonderful tip! Was thinking Id have to buy a new coffee table! I just thought I ruined my roommate’s coffee table and figured I would give this a try. Voila, a brand new table. I moved it slowly over the marks for about 2 minutes each. What happens is, the moisture which is trapped under the veneer from the hot plate or whatever, is dried up as you use the heat on it. Once you get it as good as you can (which using my method, almost unnoticable) finish by rubbing in a few drops of olive oil and it will look good as new. At Thanksgiving dinner,someone places 2 glass coffee carafes (HOT!) I just made 4 ugly white squares on the table! I have a Laura Ashley coffee table, wasnt sure if its solid wood as it has a Sheen to it. I used a floor steamer (Dirt Devil) and it worked GREAT. I rubbed the table with vegetable oil once I was finished. This is amazing!!! I now know what to do. I was very skeptical at first, but decided to try the steam iron. I used steam iron with white towel – put towel over spot and gently rubbed with the steam iron for about 15-20 seconds. I read the tip on this site and was almost too scared to try it. After about 10 seconds of steam from hot iron hovering about couple inches above the spot in circular motion, stain disappeared. I felt devestated not even a placemat would cover it. I used a white pillowcase folded in half, steam iron set on “cotton” (high) setting, and did not hover, but moved the iron around in a circular pattern for approx. Brilliant – Probably saved my marriage! This is our main family table and we paid a lot for it just two years ago. The heat stain was gone! Gaining a bit of encouragement, I dried it off and tried again for a bit longer. Thank you so much. Thank you! I had tried the vinegar/oil and the baking soda/salt without any results. It looked great. No steam but there was a little natural steam from the tea towel I guess. After hovering over the white cotton cloth with a steaming iron the white mark was completely gone and did not damage the beautiful finish! ok… it just happened. You all saved my bacon!!! This was a high-end table only a couple of years old. thanks so much! and i must admit it worked was what you call gob smacked when it worked dont usually comment in things but anybody who has a ring stain or white heat stain please Do this cos it does work with the steam iron over a tea towel. I had one big heat stain and 2 small ones, and they’re almost gone now. Thanks for sharing this tip with everyone! IT REALLY WORKS. We followed your exact directions & the stain went away like magic! AMAZING!! The table is now restored to its original condition and we couldn’t be happier! Truly fantastic. It NOW it looks better. This is amazing. Wow! THANK YOU! Will certainly tell others of the site. It may be necessary, however, to do … Thanks again! The white scorch mark on my wooden table bugged me for years! then i tried pretty much everything else, mayonaise, mustard, lemon juice (not ammonia thankfully!) !” So, I first tried it with the iron on medium heat on a white t-shirt with steam. After reading through these comments, I decided to give it another go with no steam … didn’t do a thing. it worked in seconds so grateful for people setting up these home remedy tips!!!!!! So amazing!!!!! However, from looking into the dining room at an angle where light from the window reflects off the table, the mark remains visible and its surface area has increased from where we used the iron. I just did this on a beautiful mission style table(dark wood). Then I used some Murphy’s Oil to bring back the lust. Thank you!! It would go away for a few seconds after lifting up the t-shirt after steam but would quickly reappear. You will damage your table, the mats resist heat they don’t repel it! Folded a thin dishtowel in half, high steam for several seconds over the mark with my iron, dryed it quickly as I went along & it looks great! . I just did this…and my dining table is restored! Now I can go ahead and sell the set since I wanted to get rid of it for a while. Thanks for a solution that really works,, Wow!There I stood iron in hand hovering over my ruined mahogany table,shall I try it or not.With hand’s a tremble I Slowly lowered my iron on to my white piece of cotton towel here go’s!!!! It only took a couple of minutes. WOW, what an absolutely superb tip. I was a major skeptic……no more! I shall pass this tip onto all my frisnds. To say I am pleased doesn’t get close! When I removed the dish from my sidebar table there was a huge white ring. We tried it and voila! I have a very, very expensive kitchen set that my husband, accidently, put a very hot dish of vegetables on it without a hot plate under it. I tried the steam iron tip on my teak dining room table. My girlfriend put a hot pot directly on my expensive solid birch, natural coloured, dinning room table and left a 8″ round white burn mark. You could see the steam coming off the table – but you could also see the white heat stain leaving… I put the t shirt back and continued for 2 -3 more minutes trying to hover and not touch the table – but getting really close. White mark was gone within 10 seconds!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’ll be passing this idea onto the furniture store as they had no suggestions for me when I called. Just to let you know the top is varnished and it didn’t hurt it at all. I suggest reading MATTHEW’S comments above, as I had much the same issue. stain is gone, gone, gone. So I heated water in a plastic container to use as the heat source, dipped cloth in the container and tried to wipe the stain away with the steam of the hot cloth…no luck. Stain is gone!!! After trying a few of the what I deemed safer concoctions (toothpaste, oil & vinegar, etc), I went for the dry iron method. Just to add to the chorus! (she didn’t know about the stains last night!). I followed these instructions, ironing on high steam setting over a thin towel, and it vanished in less than 10 seconds! I went ahead and used some Old English on them to enjoy the beautiful shine without those ugly white spots. Thanks!! Thanks and my daughter is no longer grounded! After drying, I applied lemon oil and the finish is just perfect–like it never even happened! I used a wet cotton terry cloth tea towel folded in half and just moved the iron in a circular motion over the stain for about half a minute. I tried dry heat first – and it did not help. I now have a “halo” effect of white cloud marks around the perimeter of where I’ve used the iron (I used steam and a towel, and the hover method didn’t work for me). Within seconds (literally) the first (and oldest) stain disappeared. It took awhile and a lot of creativity but it’s 100% gone now. I was scared to death to do it, but figured it could’nt look any worse. I did the iron and towel method.... nothing! 5 seconds of the same moist heat reversed the damage, but I’m betting I could re-damage it again if I did this for 5-10 minutes instead of seconds. This took the white marks right off of my grandmother’s table! At first it only made a small difference but with trial and error we saw major differences and then went back over the marks that still showed to some degree. Help. Also remember that heat resisting mats for your table are not a license to put 200 degree pans on. Mixed results for me. amazing! I used a steam iron on medium heat over an old pillow case. I had th same problem on my husband's grandmother's library table. Made the problem much worse…, Hello! When we were done there was a white mark on the table. Thank You! . I didn’t think there was anything I could do. Dan you’ve provided some good tips and info, thank you! Any suggestions? Thank you so much! I just tried on my polished cherry table. The table I used for the project (above pictures) wasn’t waxed at all, as far as I know. After I finished heating the stain, it was barely visible (unfortunately along with a few small bubbles) from certain angles. Used the thin white towel with iron method. Iron, steam, towel, hover. i would suggest going lightly, and dont hold it in one area too heavy but this idea totally saved this 4th of july. Unbelievable! ok… the despair got too high after failing with other liquids and combinations (I even tried salt, recommend in another forum) so I tried to manage the iron with no steam. This tip saved my marriage. Amazing. Many thanks! I did take one picture with the unrepaired leaf in the middle. There are still faint, filmy marks where the large white spots were, but you have to be really close to the table to see them. I’m just glad we dont have that stupid looking stain anymore. It worked AFTER I rubbed the entire table down with 2 parts olive oil and 1 part lemon juice. I wasn’t brave enough to put the iron actually on the towel covered table but I didn’t need to. I brought my 11 year old son up from his Nintendo game and he was amazed too. Cherry stained oak with veneer type finish? Thanks for the tip! thanks. I can’t believe this worked! Two things 1) how moist the cloth is, and how hot it gets, matter, it must be consistantly, very slightly moist, not damp. Had several white spots on my antique cherry dining room table. The dining table will stay! I then got a 100% cotton white shirt from my closet and set the iron on no steam, but it did not help. Googled some home remedies… tried the toothpaste and baking soda remedy first and it lightened the stain, but was still visible. The only method we use is dangerous, extreme fun and we have only known it not work twice. Thanks. Found this site desperate tried it 45 seconds thin towel and steam hovering above stains, all are gone used a little olive oil for shine. It's a small, cream coloured, pressurised tin of foam! I had a table that had several and also used heat as Patrica Morse suggested. however, if it doesn’t work for you, there’s hope! Got the munchies last night and microwaved some chicken parmigiana on a paper plate. I wasn’t sure if the buyer will buy it with this mark, so I tried your idea but with some variation. How can a hot iron on a polished wood surface not damage it further ? It worked miraculously fast- thanks so much! IT WORKED!!! We had a BBQ used paper plates with very hot baked beans every where there was a plate was a white mark . Awesome!!! Put iron over a white Tshirt on top of stain, ironed it with steam for a few seconds, and it was gone!! Thanks you so much!! We tried Jasco, mayo, and furniture polish with no results. I was hoping that this would work but I guess I will keep trying other things. SO SCARY BUT WORKED LIKE A CHARM! Any suggestions? I used a dry iron at high heat—–DO NOT USE A PAPER TOWEL> the bonding agents made the towel stick to the finish (only a little spot thankfully). There was a big white rectangle on our table! I'm glad it was the right thing for you, too. Medium iron, no steam, white t-shirt and the spot was gone. We were sceptical at first wondering how heat could remove a heat stain as we’d ruined an antique table (our landlord’s not ours) – but after tentatively trying out an iron over a doubled pillow case the stain was gone in seconds – as if by magic! Thank you SO MUCH!!!!!! I used my iron on a steam setting and kept th heat medium high. “Oh, because I read it on the internet…”. I had to comment right after trying it! I tried a mixture of same parts olive oil and baking soda and it worked excellent. My dining table is one of those modern looking ones in dark brown. She was a bit anxious and sceptical about putting a steamy hot iron on her table. My brand new dark wood table with marks from grilled hotdogs on a paper plate…. Thank you. Almost worth making another stain to see it work again! Once I got started, I got so excited I didn;t stop until I did the whole table including the once leaf that was in it. I let it sit for close to a minute, checked, and nothing happened. Thank you so much for the hot iron tip! I followed all of the tips. Holy ** this iron steam thing worked like magic, took a few goes, we had ironed a shirt on a dark wooden table on a few layers of sheet and it left big iron marks. I tried “cleaning” the mark with water and a paper towel but it would not budge. Make sure you have the STEAM on!!!!!!!! White stain on custom table, less than 10 with hot iron w/ steam and the spot vanished…Thanks. I was looking for new tables as I know that refinishing is very costly. I was worried when I read the posts of the iron making it worse, but was able to remove the cloud with high heat and medium heat for only a few seconds. I’m still not sure what caused the spots, I’ve always used trivets and coasters…always. did a little baking and our hot cupcakes left these ugly eyesores… a little ironing, steam, and olive oil later, they were gone! Never in a million years would I have thought of a fix like this. I tried the “Hot iron with steam” method with a white hand towel over spot. I used my Shark floor steamer with great success! My husband is going to be thrilled when he gets home. I too was very skeptical but after only 10 seconds of hovering a hot steam iron over a thin towel on my coffee table the white mark left by a coffee pot had completely vanished! I’ve been covering up a big white heat stain on my lovely oak dining table since Christmas day. I desperately looked for a solution but thought it was a lost cause. I was so skeptical on this method. Thanks so much for the tip. I googled how to remove hot white marks and this site came up. I can’t thank you enough. I had tolerated looking at a square mark on our mahogany dining table for two years (the result of my husband ignoring my plea to put something extra under a Lasagne dish straight from the oven). I have a dark wood table – our only dining table – that we got heat damage on. I tried a singular cotton tea towel and had my old steam iron on full heat full of water. It literally took me 2 minutes to remove 8 white marks with and iron and steam, i cant thank you enough!!!! Thanks so much for this help. I just used a basic white towel, with the iron held slightly over top it, and pressed steam about 6x… AMAZING! I have used an iron without steaming option over a cloth and all the damage is gone! I tried this without steam at first, but had no results. I was 100% sure that it won’t work for me as all the other tricks i had tried failed. It worked beautifully. This image shows a teak veneer secretary desk that has a large dark stain in the lower corner, and a few smaller stains on the same side. then put Holloway House Quick Shine (get at Kroger – – it is a hardwood floor cleaning product that leaves a shiny protective coating) on the whole table. Thank you so much! Thanks to all for your posts! The spots are back. Because of this observation, I would infer that the technique can damage the finish and requires care and attention to avoid any visible damage. Can’t thank you enough…awesome!! I used an iron with steam. Yes! A linen tea towel, medium heat iron like I was ironing that area. 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