Removing Wine from Carpet

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• manninjp Flag

  He's Thorough!
  I think I detect a slight Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. The spoon technique did it.

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Christopher Myers: This is Christopher Myers from Christopher s Incorporated in Merrifield, Virginia. In this segment, we are going to be spot cleaning liquid, specifically wine, red wine from carpeting. So, we re going to take some wine and we re actually going to pour it on to our carpet here. That should be enough for the demonstration and you see it s soaked in. Now, that was pretty good demonstration, you see a little bit is still setting here. If this carpet had been treated with a fabric protectant, that soaking in effect that we just saw would not have been as rapid, which that is a good case for applying a fabric protectant to a carpet, so, just a fore thought. Now, if you have a red wine spill, the best thing to do right away is to grab a clean white absorbing towel and to blot the area immediately, so this we are simulating that this actually was a spill in our home and we have focus a minute or so to go and get this towel. So, basically we re going to come back and we re just going to blot, okay that then you see some of the wine transferred and this again why we use white because we want to see how much transfers into the towel. You can see this, there is still some coming up and we keep moving it over as we go and now we re going to go to the next level here, so that underneath I see there is still a good bit of wine in there, look it that, it still a lot, but the carpet looks pretty clean, but it s not, there is still lot of red wine inside of there. We go and see, that is a good bit of wine. Applying downward pressure with both thumbs and we re still getting wine, so still seeing it transfer. So, you can see it s started out a lot, not as much less and hopefully we ll get even less this time. So, there is still some transferring, so keep blotting, the more you can get out in this step the better, still a little bit coming up, still some coming up. So, you want to continue this process until, there is no more wine coming up, very little now. Okay, so we are seeing we still got a little bit there. Well, you can see guys we got the most of it, here and then just less as it comes through. So, now we use the other side of the towel and continue, and just make sure we get as much as we can, that s looking pretty good. So, now we can probably safely go to our second step. Okay, so we blotted all the wine out that we can, that s good and the next thing that we do is we apply a detergent cleaner for, specifically for, matched to the quality style and type of our carpeting and we just apply to where the spill occurred, very simple and now we are going to repeat the blotting procedure. Now, we ll work from the outside in, so it work and checking in, I can see, I don t know if it will show on the camera, but you can see their still some wine coming out and it s been released by that detergent. Is their some, you could say? And you want to continue to blot until your spot is fairly dry. When you have used all of one side of towel, use the other side of the towel, or get a new towel. So, and no more transfer, it looks like, there s tiny bit more coming up, just a tiny bit more, here we go, looks good, that s only last some of it we had on the first towel versus the second towel. Now, the procedure was successful. In this case this is a looped pile carpet and the pile has been pressed down as we have shown in other clips, you want to take the rounded edge of spoon and go in between the carpet fibers, or the carpet pile loops and just press them own away and then the other and then do it in the opposite direction to just lift them from being -- so press down so that they match the field of the carpeting. And that s it. That was a successful wine spot removal.

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