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mamarina · 07-29-2003, 10:07 PM

Does anyone have any advice on how to clean it up? We are using dawn right now, but what else? Please help!
Back to the oil spill...
TIA,
Marina

_Gentle_Spirit_ · 07-29-2003, 10:12 PM

http://www.fabriclink.com/carpet/carpetstain.html

mamarina · 07-29-2003, 10:15 PM

Thank you so much!
I am going to bookmark that site

_Gentle_Spirit_ · 07-29-2003, 10:16 PM

Your welcome...I hope it is of some help to you. Good luck in removing your stain.

vicky · 07-30-2003, 12:10 AM

I also would suggest putting cat litter on the oil to soak it up then vacuum it later, like maybe put it on it before bed then vacuum in the morning. I didn't see this suggestion on the site linked in this thread, but my dad and brother are mechanics and this is what they use on the floor after they are done working to clean up. The cat litter absorbs the oil, not the scoopable kind, but the old regular cheap kind is what they use. HTH.

Daisy Duck · 07-30-2003, 12:36 AM

When my oldest decided to dump a bottle of cooking oil on the carpet I used lots of newspaper and paper grocery sacks (what I had available at the time) to sop up the oil as much as I could.

Of couse after running a spatula over it to try to get what I could out before hand (into a container... not just on to another section of carpet!)

And then I spot cleaned and steam cleaned the heck out of it. Eventually it came out, but I worked on it for what seemed like a L O N G time!

I hope the methods on that site work quicker than what I did!

mamarina · 07-30-2003, 12:46 AM

Luckily most of it went on a throw rug that we have in his room (I knew there was a reason we bought it!), so at least I can take it outside and hose and wash and hose and wash.
I will probably go through all of the suggestions here, for the real carpet, cause we rent our apartment, and I want the deposit back (not likely with a toddler though!)
Thanks so much for responding...I had no idea that ds could reach it, and I had no idea he could unscrew lids (but I knew he was being toooo quiet in his room), so I was a bit frantic.
-Marina