removing grease spots from carpets?
bugbear
I was cleaning up a bought-at-auction Record #82 quick release
vice (10 quid!).
I'm sure people are familiar with the sort of stuff
that was crudded on to the main screw; a pleasing decades
old mix of grease, oil and black stuff.
Having rendered the vice wonderfully functional,
I left the workshop.
Later, I want back in to check on something.
AND MUST HAVE PICKED UP A PIECE OF GREASE OF MY SLIPPER.
Subsequently, my lounge carpet (quite light in colour)
has little dark spots, around a stride apart.
I cannot believe I'm the first and only person
to have done this, especially in present company...
So:
Does anyone have a favourite trick to remove
the grease and dirt without spreading it further
(the obvious problem if I try a solvent) and without
wrecking the carpet?
BugBear
Dave Baker
"bugbear" <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> wrote in message
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Swarfega and a toothbrush to dissolve the grease followed by a good scrub
with carpet cleaner or rent one of those carpet machines.
--
Dave Baker
www.pumaracing.co.uk
"Why," said Ford squatting down beside him and shivering, "are you lying
face down in the dust?"
"It's a very effective way of being wretched," said Marvin.
Algernon
Get a spray can of engine degreaser. Spray liberally untill the
grease is dosolved. The degreaser is then water soluble, and can be
washed out with soap and water, or carpet shampoo. This works with
shirts and suchlike too. I have had white shirts covered in oil and
grease, and they come up spotless as long as the treatment is the
first thing tried.
Alan
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david.s...@bem.fki-et.com
My wife has a little can of 'de-solveit' (i think thats the correct
spelling) spray for just such occasions ;)
I think it came from sainsburys, or similar supermarket. seems to
remove almost anything.
the only problem is then you are left with little clean spots about a
stride apart... a dead givaway!
Dave
philipte
bugbear wrote:
>
> Does anyone have a favourite trick to remove
> the grease and dirt without spreading it further
> (the obvious problem if I try a solvent) and without
> wrecking the carpet?
>
I've used Easy Start for dealing with errant grease spots and found it
to be very effective......possibly not a good idea if you're a smoker
though........
Regards
Philip T-E
SAMMM
friend's home.
the carpet was a light tan or ivory color....
to this day, i won't even walk on that carpet.
she still speaks to me.
sammm
"bugbear" <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> wrote in message
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John
> with carpet cleaner or rent one of those carpet machines.
> --
> Dave Baker
Swarfega used like this will do the job. We have a VAX that is
wonderfull for cleaning carpets. I once managed to drop a full tin of
coloured wood varnish on a light tan carpet. This may not be in the Vax
manual, but I loaded it with Turps and shampoo'd the carpet. All the
varnish came out. A conventional clean removed the turps from the
carpet and Vax together. All is now perfect again.
John
bugbear
> Does anyone have a favourite trick to remove
> the grease and dirt without spreading it further
> (the obvious problem if I try a solvent) and without
> wrecking the carpet?
Many thanks for all the replies;
one thing I need to emphasize;
this is not nice new clean grease;
this is decades old, loaded
with black grime grease. (*)
Think old engine oil in grease form.
BugBear
(*) and not M&S grease ;-)
Algernon
The engine degreaser shoudl do it.
Eucalyptus oil works for beach tar, so that might do as well...and
leave a nice smell.
Neil Ellwood
I don't know if it is still available but 'Thawpit' used to work well on
woollen carpets. Don't forget to try it on a part that is unseen first.
--
Neil
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bugbear
> Does anyone have a favourite trick to remove
> the grease and dirt without spreading it further
> (the obvious problem if I try a solvent) and without
> wrecking the carpet?
Many thanks to all who responded.
In the interests of feedback, and helping
anyone else who finds this thread in the google
archive...
In the end I used swarfega green gel (not the new
hand washing stuff with granules) on a toothbrush
to loosen the grease.
I then used a VAX vacuum clean/carpet washer
to remove the swarfega and dissolved grease.
After drying, the result is excellent.
I can just about see where the marks were,
but I think this is as much due to a texture change
from the cleaning process as from residual dirt/grease.
BugBear
Jim Guthrie
<bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> wrote:
>I can just about see where the marks were,
>but I think this is as much due to a texture change
>from the cleaning process as from residual dirt/grease.
More important, would a wife notice :-)
Jim.
Algernon
wrote:
Obviously not as he is still alive to tell the tale :)
david.s...@bem.fki-et.com
Algernon wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:34:21 +0100, Jim Guthrie <j...@sprok01.plus.com>
> wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:57:34 +0100, bugbear
> ><bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> wrote:
> >
> >>I can just about see where the marks were,
> >>but I think this is as much due to a texture change
> >>from the cleaning process as from residual dirt/grease.
> >
> >More important, would a wife notice :-)
> >
> Obviously not as he is still alive to tell the tale :)
>
Blunder Points are non expireable
Dave
Peter Harrison
On a related note, a couple of years ago, the cat managed to cover
itself with Sadolin woodstain. I could not imagine what we could do for
it so took it to the vet. Later that afternoon, we were told we could
come and collect him. Expecting to find a naked hairless cat we were
very surprised to find a wonderfully clean, fluffy, odourless cat. He
had never looked so good. We asked how they had done it, expecting some
secret paint remover. Turns out they scrubbed him in swarfega. What
wonderful people - that is both the vet and the people who make swarfega.
Pete Harrison
din...@codesmiths.com
Peter Harrison wrote:
> On a related note, a couple of years ago, the cat managed to cover
> itself with Sadolin woodstain.
I came home once to find our "red" setter looking unusually red. A few
pounds bag of red raddle, iron ochre cement pigment, was involved.
There was a dog-height stripe around every wall. Had to re-decorate to
get rid of it. Fortunately it washed out of the sofa loose covers (ah,
those '70s and The Days Of Dralon) and vacuumed out of the carpet
pretty well, but nothing would take it off a rough wallpaper surface.
The dog just rolled in his usual couple of cowpats for shampoo and
carried on as if nothing had happened.