by Taylor
If you've drunk red wine, you've most likely had a red wine spill on carpet in your home. If you haven't, count yourself lucky but be prepared anyway, because it can easily happen to you.
Below is a video giving red wine stain carpet tips, which I think is really excellent.
The video gives step by step instructions for removing red wine stains from your carpet.
The most important step is to act as quickly as possible when a red wine spill occurs, because red wine contains tannins which stain quickly and easily.
When at your dinner party someone accidentally spills wine onto the carpet blot up as much of the red wine as possible with paper towels.
The video demonstrates how to blot, from the outside of the stain in, to make sure your blotting does not spread the stain further.
The next step is to begin removing the stain with a stain removal solution.
However, if your dinner party is still going on you may not want to be on your hands and knees cleaning your carpet.
The video suggests in that case that you cover the stain with a thick layer of salt, which it says will help prevent the stain from setting.
Once you are ready to clean up the red wine spill from the carpet you just vacuum up the salt before heading onto the next step.
Then, the video gives two suggestions for red wine stain removal solutions, the first being gentler and the second for really stubborn stains.
The first solution contains:
Below is a video giving several tips for how to remove red wine stain from carpet when you have a red wine spill on carpet.
The most obvious, and effective thing to do when red wine spills on your carpet is to blot up as much of it as possible, as quickly as possible.
Then, the video gives alternate suggestions for the next step:
A: Blot white wine onto the red wine stain to try to remove even more of the red wine; or
B: Cover the stained area of the carpet with salt and let it sit there until the salt has soaked up as much of the red wine as it can, and then vacuum it up.
Either of these methods is likely to have some of the stain still remaining, because red wine stains are so tough to remove from carpet.
Therefore, the final suggestion in the video is to use a half and half solution of 3% hydrogen peroxide and dishwashing liquid, and blot this onto the stain.
Does that suggestion sound familiar? Well, it should. Because I am amazed how well that 2 ingredient recipe works for removing those stains!
Keep applying this solution until the red wine stain is removed from the carpet.
In addition, the video does not say to, but after you have removed the stain you should blot again with a clean white cloth and plain water to remove as much of the dishwashing liquid and hydrogen peroxide from the carpet as possible.
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Hi, I'm Taylor, a busy mom with 3 kids, so I have lots of hands on experience with house cleaning, laundry and my fair share of spots, spills and other messy catastrophes. Thanks for visiting my site.
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