NEED URGENT HELP!!
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Topic: NEED URGENT HELP!!
Posted By: Brenna
Subject: NEED URGENT HELP!!
Date Posted: 03 August 2007 at 7:54pm
We have JUST got carpet put in and DH has just gone and spilt a whole glass of red wine on it!!!! GRRRR 
What do we do?????????????????? -------------  My beautiful 2 girls...nearly 4 and 13 months
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Posted By: AnnC
Date Posted: 03 August 2007 at 7:56pm
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don't rub it - dab it - i guess with a wet cloth.but not soaking wet.hope you gt it out ------------- Ann 
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Posted By: my4beauties
Date Posted: 03 August 2007 at 8:02pm
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lots of water to dilute it, then stamp on it with teatowels. ------------- My babies: R (9),G (7), J (5) http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Nic01
Date Posted: 03 August 2007 at 8:03pm
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Bugger! Tip a large glass of water on it to completely saturate it & then pat it up with a towel. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 03 August 2007 at 8:15pm
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Pour white wine over it. It is meant to work (did for my mums carpet). ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: meow
Date Posted: 03 August 2007 at 8:32pm
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No no no!! Put salt all over it. Seriously. leave it there overnight and then vaccum. We did the exact same thing at our place and the mark came out completely! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: meow
Date Posted: 03 August 2007 at 8:33pm
The salt absorbs the liquid. What did you end up doing?  ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Mazzy
Date Posted: 03 August 2007 at 8:38pm
| Probably way too late, but soda water works well too - a 1.5L bottle poured all over it. Hope it came out! |
Posted By: Brenna
Date Posted: 03 August 2007 at 8:38pm
I've told DH everyones advice and he wont do anything except dab the carpet with a wet cloth. I'm really pi**ed off cause he was being stupid when he knocked it over and it also went all over the coffee table and it ruined something I was using to make something for Brenna. We have been doing up our house for the past 2 years and finally could afford the carpet and now there's a HUGE stain...I feel like having a good cry (I was so excited about our carpet 
Thanks everyone for your help ------------- My beautiful 2 girls...nearly 4 and 13 months
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Posted By: SquishysMum
Date Posted: 03 August 2007 at 8:42pm
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Call the carpet people tomorrow, or any carpet shop, and tell them what happened. They should be able to tell you what to do, if your DH will only dab it with water.
I know how you feel, we just had new carpet down and the flatmate spilt curry on it - damn green mark on my blue carpet! We used friend for carpets after lots of water, and the stain came out, but now that patch is slightly paler than the rest Oh well.
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Posted By: JD
Date Posted: 03 August 2007 at 8:45pm
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Put salt on it anyway. If the carpet is still damp from his 'dabbing', then it will still absorb the liquid.
It totally works, but you have to pour heaps on...like a really thick layer, then vacume it up tomorrow. Good luck ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Bubbaloo
Date Posted: 03 August 2007 at 8:47pm
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Sorry havn't read any post but salt works really well just pour it on and leave it till the morning and vacuum it off and you never would have known. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  Was danni-chick Mum to James My Angel 28/07/08 |
Posted By: meow
Date Posted: 03 August 2007 at 8:49pm
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Yeah, if you put the salt on now, even if it doesn't get it all up, it was worth a try.. and the salt won't do anything else to the carpet. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Brenna
Date Posted: 03 August 2007 at 8:54pm
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We've only got rock salt - would this still work?? ------------- My beautiful 2 girls...nearly 4 and 13 months
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Posted By: Two Blondinis
Date Posted: 03 August 2007 at 9:27pm
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grind it up and then put it on the stain. You might have to re-wet the carpet first though.
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Posted By: Mama2two
Date Posted: 03 August 2007 at 9:27pm
If you can't get it out - Insurance claim. That is what it is there for and you would be surprised at the number of claims for carpet from spills of red wine and ribena ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: pepsi
Date Posted: 03 August 2007 at 9:28pm
Make your DH suck the stain out with his mouth...silly buggar! 
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Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 03 August 2007 at 10:37pm
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saltsaltsaltsaltsaltsaltsaltsaltsalt! good luck!! ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: Carmel
Date Posted: 03 August 2007 at 11:24pm
Prob to late but friends of ours did that and it sounds silly but they poured a bottle of white wine over top and they said it got fed of the stain
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