How to remove clay from the carpet: useful tips

When there are children in the house, then there are toys and objects for creativity. But not always they are in the right place. And if it is easy to clean brushes or paper, then plasticine makes you work hard. Children mold it everywhere, by carelessness they drop it on the floor. Do not have time to remove immediately - there will be a greasy stain, the mass will be absorbed into the villi.

How to remove clay from the carpet? There are many ways. Read and choose any suitable.

Freeze

The very first action is mechanical cleaning. Of course, first handles. We remove everything that manages to collect. No need to rub! Otherwise, clay will tightly enter into the coating. Now you need to freeze this dirty trick.

Is there a piece of ice in the freezer? Perfectly. We take it, wrap it in a thin napkin and apply it to the clay for 10-12 minutes. After this period, gently break off the pieces and collect. This should be done quickly, until the mass has not had time to thaw.

Well helps in this matter vacuum cleaner, collects very well. Just turn off the hose with a thin cloth or an old toe to prevent the clay from getting inside the vacuum cleaner. It was still not enough for him to smear everything there.

Council No ice in the freezer? No problem! Any freeze will do. All that is in the freezer is quite capable of chilling the clay. Though chicken, though meat.

Scouring

After most of the contamination has been mechanically removed, there is always a greasy stain of the appropriate color. Even if plasticine is super-nourished, there is always wax in its composition. Here it also leaves this spot.

When the carpet is long-pile, and the pollution is small, you can try to carefully cut it with small scissors. It is likely that the site of damage will become invisible. With a large spot of clay scissors will not help.

We recall how wax is removed. Loose cotton fabric is placed on top, then gently ironed with a hot iron. A piece of wax is absorbed. The napkin is replaced and the operation is repeated until the pollution has completely disappeared.

Regular parchment paper is quite suitable instead of fabric. Just do not take siliconized! It does not absorb, but rather repels fat. Even the simplest newspaper can be used on a dark covering. It absorbs fat and wax well.

Council Do not try to do this with a synthetic carpet! It will simply melt, instead of a stain there will be a burnt piece.

If, after all the manipulations, the pieces of ingrained plasticine still remain and are an eye blister, then chemistry will help you. Any solvent at hand is acetone, nail polish remover, white spirit. We moisten in it a soft rag or a rag, then three. Be sure to from the edges to the center, otherwise you will deliver the spot even more. Pre-try on an inconspicuous piece somewhere behind the furniture, how the carpet will react to such a tool! Periodically rag change to clean.

Council For artificial carpets, such an operation is undesirable because it can float fibers or dissolve colors. Use a special carpet cleaner that says “suitable for artificial lint”.

Now the clay has been removed, the stain has disappeared. But there were stains from the solvent.What to do to this endless story with the removal of spots over? We take the simplest dishwashing detergent, the tiniest drop. Rub the stains, wipe with a clean cloth moistened with water. All waiting for drying and admire the beauty.

Bad advice

1. Some sources recommend removing clay from the carpet with sunflower oil. Saturate, rub, he rolls into rudders, which will then only gather. Interestingly, and then the oil than scour? Right, gasoline. Further more. Gasoline than rub? Thinner And so on to infinity.
2. Fen advised to warm. Good so that melted clay. This is understandable, melt and then what? How to collect its semi-liquid? And completely liquid, it will be even more spread and absorbed. Even if from above a napkin or a rag to put, then the melted plasticine under the law of the world wide will creep down, but not in a rag! But if you first napkin and only then a hairdryer, then it may well turn out something sensible.
3. In winter, they propose to drag the carpet to the street. To harden plasticine. Whole carpet Drag on the street.That is, from the street in the winter to bring a piece of ice or religion does not allow a dense snow? Normal picture, especially when the carpet sizes are decent. Squirm, prem on the balcony to freeze clay. The situation is similar to the twisting of the light bulb at the same time four.
4. If the plasticine is the same color as the carpet, then there’s no problem at all! It is recommended to just ignore it, all the same imperceptibly. Well, yes, but the fact that later the children, or you yourself are on your feet, take away this clay from all over the apartment - is this also ignored? And there will be grease stains on socks and pantyhose - let them too? That's right, it's still not visible on the sole. Perhaps this is still a tip for true sluts.

Useful tips

1. It is very good to clean the clay from the carpet with the foam that is used to clean the car. It also removes the fat stain. The tool is sold in many car accessories stores, worth a lot of money. But do not regret it, spend it once, especially if there are small children, animals or clumsy households in the house. This barrel will be enough for you for a very long time. It will pay off a hundredfold when you wipe the clay from the carpet, furniture or clothes the next twenty-fifth time. In this case, the foam can be used on any artificial surface.
2. A widely advertised carpet cleaner also perfectly cleans the clay stains. Just use it according to the instructions.
3. Not bad remove the clay from the carpet cleaning creams for the kitchen. They are gently rubbed into the contamination with a dry sponge, then rinsed with clean water. Just take exactly the cream that dishwashing. To clean the plates contains alkali or acid, you can easily spoil the coating in the most visible place. Then nothing can be fixed.
4. The simplest laundry soap perfectly removes clay from any carpet. Beat a strong thick foam with some water. For a light carpet, a few drops of hydrogen peroxide were added, and for dark, liquid ammonia. Smeared on the contaminated place. Gone for 15 minutes to drink tea, ditenka scolding for carelessness. Then he returned with a brush, gently rubbed. Again to the center, not from it. Then gently with a soft cloth with clean water rinsed. Then, with a dry cloth, absorb excess liquid and that's it. You can again admire the clean carpet.
5. All the manipulations went to ruin? Try the last remedy - thick soda solution.It is applied warm to the clay spot and left to dry. Then the pollution is vacuumed to remove the grains of soda. And only after that all the stain is thoroughly washed with clean water in order to permanently remove all traces.

How to remove clay from the carpet? Maybe not? An expensive long pile rug can not stand all your experiments. Hand over it in a good dry-cleaner, at the same time and all covering will be updated. And in the nursery bed on the floor of the newspaper during the occupation of creativity. So you will save the carpet, your nerves and a lot of money on cleaning products.

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