Carpet stain removal

Wulz

Random question folks, have any of you had oil successfully cleaned from a carpet? if so how?
Did you use a professional company or household cleaner? or any old tricks?

Reason being i managed to get a little lump of oil/grease/dirt to fall off my rear derailer jockey wheel and stick iself to my shoe. Then clever cloggs me managed to get it to stain six separate point across two cream bedroom carpets!!!

Wife is pretty unhappy, end result is that bikes in the house are now under review.

Any suggestions more than welcome, well anything that means i get to stay with the wife as ive only been married 5 months!

Cheers

zx6man

you could try the bio dgreaser you use on chains? or wet wipes can sometimes do the trick on certain fabrics

capt_slog

I've done it several times with Swarfega. In my youth I had a motorcycle and I was always tinkering with it, and unfortunately I bought the oil into the house on several occasions. Just a quick rub with the green stuff and then a wet cloth was all it took.

Wulz

thanks for the info so far,

Update, i`ve just conducted a experiment on a piece of lab coat material. OK not exactly the same as carpet but worth a go. Results, tried simple green which is the degreaser i use at work on the bike as its very good and it just kinda made a mess
Tried swarfega and it really has made an impact. So its off home to either ruin the carpet or cure it.

Based on how the swarfega affected the carpet i rekon that a good carpet cleaning post scrub will not be out of the question from a point of view of getting rid of the now mobile oil particles.

More suggestions more than welcome.

Wish me luck!

zx6man

The bio ones are best as you can then wash with soap and water

Anonymous

I often get oil on my trousers and mum is a superstar at getting it out.
She uses Fairy Liquid, Swarfega and a bit of Vanish powder.

Fairly liquid acts as a degreasing agent, as does Swarfega. The danger is rubbing the carpet so hard that you ruin the piling. Also be careful if you are using bleach, as that can also dye the carpet a different colour.

I have since done this myself and got so carried away that I rubbed the oil out and also the dye in the trousers.

I would google it. Or ask on mumsnet

capt_slog

If you use Swarfega, you have to make sure that you completely move the oil before you get it wet, or you'll have to wait until it dries before you can have a second go.

Re:- the 5 months bit in your OP. Mrs Slog and I remember that well, the first year was a bit of a trial at times. 28 years on, it still is sometimes, hang in there.

Tom Butcher

What about red wine ? It'll do nothing to remove the oil but you wont be so bothered about what the wife thinks.

Sorry - no suggestions I'm afraid.

Redhog14

Remove wife = end of problem. HTH

team47b

There's no easy way to tell you this...





you need a pair of slippers

fevmeister

I have had all sorts of muck and oil on my carpets from my chain and cassette! I got a bottle of vax stain spot remover for £2 from wilkinsons and worked a treat on our cream wool carpet. Get yourself down to wilkos i recommend it!

crispybug2

If you can get hold of it then Carbontetrachloride is your stuff.
It is of course illegal stuff but if you ask very very very nicely at your local fire extinguisher company they might have some, it used to be used in fire extinguishers. If, and it's a big if, you can get it then that's your stuff!

astramax151

We got bitumen tile adhesive all over our new, cream carpet on the day it was fitted. the carpet fitter went at it with white spirit + white cotton rags + it came up spotless..

Wulz

Another update,

Got home and went at the 6 or 7 stains with several goes of swafega and overall we have a good succcess.

So thanks for all the contributions folks comic or otherwise

Slippers would be a good suggestion but the shoes i was wearing were my spd shimano shoes and all this mayhem ocurred as i was leaving the flat for work at 7.00am, typical!

Well done to slog on the 28 years, hope we get there, i rekon the best tip to getting that far is to not have cream carpets!

Cheers folks

Willie

janggeungulk

There two ways there , first technique is take lemon juice and soap powder , put into a bowl and mix well, then apply the solution into carpet, and then wash your carpet. If it is not working then call carpet dry cleaning services.

pinno

janggeungulk wrote:

There two ways there , first technique is take lemon juice and soap powder , put into a bowl and mix well, then apply the solution into carpet, and then wash your carpet. If it is not working then call carpet dry cleaning services.

Is this ^ a plug? or...
Is this the bank holiday resurrection of old threads resurrection thread? or...
Is it new forumite recruitment week? or...
Is this Bank Holiday boredom?

Back on topic, ask a bloke called seantheconn - apparently he's good at removing stains on carpets .

sloppyschleckonds

On a similar vein, does anyone know how to get stains out of curtains?

Pross

No, but then I don't use mine to wipe myself - use the bathroom you dirty git!

bianchibob

Buy a rug !