Have you tried some oxy clean? We got black leather dye out of our beige carpet before using that (my husband had it for his boots, and my son spilled the whole bottle!) We just made a paste with it, and rubbed it into the carpet, and let it sit for a few hours.
I hope you can get it out!
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Sherri
Mommy to Dylan (10-11-98) Kevin (12-10-99) Kaitlyn (6-21-02) and
Aiden (10-17-04)
Becky maybe you missed my post but this happened to us a couple months ago when Ruby was just a few weeks old. He got a hold of a bottle of the dry tie dye mix and spilled it on the floor. Violet. The patch was just about exactly that size and another small one too just like that. You'll be happy to hear (although it did take alot of work) that it is almost completely gone now and noone ever notices it (it was in the main entrance of our living room). I have to point it out to family who heard what happened!
I called Dharma and all they suggested was lots of cold water. Since it is fiber reactive and most carpet is a nylon so it shouldn't react with the fibers. That being said, since the particles are so stinking small, they embed into the carpet and you see it.
Anyways, we spent oh about 4-6 hours steam cleaning and just going over and over and over it. FIrst with water, then with carpet cleaning solution. Then we started spraying a carpet pretreater on it and then later oxiclean (the powder form and the spray bottle form). I think lots of working it out and the oxiclean were key.
Keep your chin up. You'll work your butt off, but it should come out.
HUGS - I was so stinking stressed with it.
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Alison - mom of
Brian 5/28/02
Ruby 6/2/04
I'm c&p'ing my post to Allison for the same problem (dye)
I swear by Capture carpet cleaner. You can get it at Home Depot and maybe Lowes. You buy the spray on soil releaser and a bucket of the powder. I've gotten fingernail polish out of our carpet (4 bottles of red red polish broke, after using a ton of polish remover, a huge dark pink spot was left the size of a plate) and all kinds of nasty pet stains (won't go into detail here, I'll just say it was from a 120 lb German Shephard, LOL)
Becky, seriously this stuff really works, if you want cause it's kind of expensive, I can send you enough of both the soil releaser and the powder to at least be able to tell if it's going to help. With the fingernail polish I had to treat it like 5 times to get it all out so you would probably have to do the same w/dye. All you do is spray the soil releaser on, rub it in w/a soft bristled scrub brush and sprinkle the powder on top and scrub that in and let it sit till it dries. You can actually watch the stain lift out of the carpet and rise to the top of the powder. Lmk if you want me to send you some.
Ok, tried the baking soda/peroxide and it didn't do anything. After I said I was concerned it would bleach the carpet, I thought to myself, "well der! That'll remove the blue!" Anyhoo, I mixed it up according to the self-made oxyclean recipe and nada.
Will try the Mr Clean Eraser in a minute....thanks for the idea Bethan!
I was reading the ingredients in OxyClean, and one is Sodium Carbonate, which is Soda Ash. I was concerned it would set the stain more than help, kwim? I'll give it a try in a bit. Thank you Allison and Sherri.
I talked to dh about the Capture (I was eyeing it last time we were at Home Depot), and will pick up the starter kit later this week when the kids are feeling better (they have gnarly colds right now).
Thank you everyone for your words of advice! Since I rented the steam extractor for 24 hours, we've done most of the house as well, which was very needed. I'm tired, dh is tired.
I have a lovely patch of Raspberry in my living room. I guess I must be pretty relaxed, because I would rather ignore it than get down on my hands and knees and try a dozen different solutions.
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Shecki
mom of Zachary, Annaliese, Josiah, Samuel, Brianna, Eli, and Furby
Homeschool picture day 2008
(not pictured are my two school boys)
I have a big red spot like that in my bedroom, it's been there for 2 years. It's not coming out... Kids and dye and mom wasn't looking... Hope you get yours out.
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"Fall down seven times; stand up eight."
~~~Japanese Proverb~~~
Originally posted by grtlyblesd I have a lovely patch of Raspberry in my living room. I guess I must be pretty relaxed, because I would rather ignore it than get down on my hands and knees and try a dozen different solutions.
lol, you are sooo right! I think I am trying so hard because we plan to sell the house sometime in the future, and this just solidified we will have to replace/patch the carpets. sigh...
becky that's what stressed me out too (we were planning on moving in the near future)! In fact we're moving tomorrow - no complaints from the realtor or buyer or anything!
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