My wife and I are currently living with her father since he requires looking after and we prefer hardwood floors and area rugs. Her father loves wall to wall carpet,…so I remain on top of a dropcloth.

Try looking for a product called Spotshot. It is usually found in the grocery in with the cleaners. If you catch a spill early and use as directed, it works really good for just about everything. Good info, though!

Hey, we could use a “Martha” in WC! I cast my first vote…

Stoy

I once spilled red oil paint on a green carpet–in a rental apartment. After I got the red out with stain remover, it left a nasty pale yellow bleached splotch right in front of the living-room sofa. What did I do to avoid losing my security deposit?

That’s right–I painted the spot green again! Did a pretty good job matching the pattern, if I do say so myself.

That’s right–I painted the spot green again! Did a pretty good job matching the pattern, if I do say so myself.

Haha…I painted out a cigarette burn on newly installed patterned linoleum.(sp) with acrylic. It was well several months before I fessed up……I could hardly find the spot myself. Painting can be very powerful

Windex works pretty good for the final step and dosn’t leave a soapy deposit to collect dirt.

Am I being filmed for a TV commercial?

Many moons ago I attended an oil painting workshop where the instructor told us to use oven cleaner to get oil paint out of our clothes when we accidently painted ourselves.

Guess what…this works for fresh oil paint as well as dried on oil paint. It also works for the stains left behind from trying to get pastel dust out clothes and carpet. I’ve used this many many times with my oil paints and a couple of times with my pastel slip-ups…. mostly because of cat paws.

My carpet is a soft yellow beige and I had no fading. The carpet looks new and you can’t tell where the pastel touched it. For others thinking about trying oven cleaner, I’d test a spot. It would be a good thing if you had some carpet scraps, but if you didn’t, try in a place that it wouldn’t be seen if the carpet did fade before trying the real spot. Spray the oven cleaner on the spot… let it sit…. press and lift using paper towels until you can’t release any more liquid…then spray again if you still see a stain. After the carpet dries, you can lift the nap of the carpet by brushing with a small nail brush.

This is along the original concept of cleaning the spots. Alcohol as in rubbing or isopropyl is very good. It is the active ingredient in post of the spot removers. Instead of just getting the cloth wet and dabbing here is a trick I found out worked when i had a new puppy. Soak and i mean liberally drown the spot in the alcohol. Take and old towel that you fould into forths. place the folded towel over the spot and then step on it. do a dance or otherwise just walke heavily on it for about 30 seconds. you should be able to get the residue up in one stomping. This method is good for those on a diet and trying to find a new exercise routine.

Alcohol is known to take india ink out of a hubby’s white shirt if he leaves a pen in his pocket to leak. You might have to do it several times and rinse between. I found at the last just a good washing following the above steps with the shirt makes it look as good as it did before the stain.