...on the
apartment carpet. Which was new just
before we moved in. Jbird was going to
tip a wet bike upside down in the spare room, to keep the wet tyres off the
carpet. A wet, black substance (probably
grease) dripped out.
When we spill anything at his parents' house, Mrs. Bird Sr. yells “I’ll get it!” and won’t let us near it. She has a strong conviction that her method is the only method and will work at it at any time of the day or night to get that stain out. It’s impressive. And it works. She uses a dry cloth and dabs, dabs, dabs, presses and jumps until no stain remains. It gets all soaked up into the dry cloth.
So we tried this last night - we’re very interested in getting our bond back when we move out. Unfortunately with her conviction comes strength and perseverance. What we needed to do was to put Mrs. Bird, Sr. on the case. To be fair, it’s not looking too bad now, but I KNOW she would have been on it until it was all gone.
My job today is to put some baking soda sludge on the remainder of the stain and to buy a chain to get those bikes out of the flat. I want my spare room back!
How did the baking soda work? I just had a look in the consumers guide to stain removers list and it suggested dabbing with a bit of turps on the corner of a cloth, so you could try that, I remember using it on a clients carpet and it worked. After using the turps dab with a clean hot wet cloth to get the turps out.
ReplyDeleteHi Sue - the baking soda worked! Yay! They have laid the cheapest carpet on the market so just looking at it makes it dirty. It's really nice to have carpet though! xx
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