Hey guys...It's been a while since I've posted a helpful tip to add to your arsenal of automotive interior repairs I've giving here on my blog.
So I plan of giving you a little bit on Stain removal in Carpet. This is one thing I get a lot of questions for and that is how to get those nasty brown, or black, or even red stains out of the interior carpet of the vehicles I work on on a daily basis.
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The trick isn't to it isn't no ifs ands or buts a trick at all, it's timing and knowledge of what to use where and when. Getting to a spill before it gets a opening to soak in is your best defense against a stain in your carpet. If you spill something wipe it up and soak it up as fast as potential and then flush with water and soak it up with a towel, or what ever you have at the time. But that's not all the time the case and that's where this little guide will help you, but no ifs ands or buts if you can wipe spills up a fast as you can and this helps to get the actual stain out later when you have more time.
One of the most common stains I see in vehicles are footprints or skid marks from dirty and greasy shoes. The riposte to this is a de-greaser. There are so many dissimilar options to use in this situation, but I'm here to make this as uncomplicated as potential and effective. Supplies you will need are a integrate of white towels, a scrub brush and a mild detergent, like dawn dish soap, a small pail of warm water mixing the soap to 1/4 oz. Soap to gallon of water. Dip your brush in the soap and water, scrub the areas lightly with the brush manufacture sure not to soak the carpet then wipe and blot with the towel. Repeat if necessary, wiping and blotting the area with the towel to take off the dirt and grime and the water, you don't want it to sour later if left wet. If your have a shop vac, use it to suck up the water and to fluff the carpet pile back up to dry better. Place a fan in the car if needed to dry further if you've had a bad one.
Now sometimes more then not you will need something a little stronger to get the grease out. I use Castrol Super Clean, the purple stuff. I've used uncomplicated Green at times too, and some of the products at some of information shops I'm at from time to time, so no ifs ands or buts any good de-greaser will work. Just spray the area with the cleaner, scrub with the brush, then wipe it up with a towel. Now if at all potential flush the area with water, this will help to take off the chemicals from the carpet and will help to preserve the natural look to the carpet. Some of those chemicals are pretty strong and if left can damage the carpet.
Soda pop and coffee stains, are someone else I run across a lot. Now this one can be booger to get out. A coffee stain if left can do permanent damage to the carpet and at times I have had to just dye the carpet to cover up the stain. If coffee is your problem, here are a few tips, catch the spill as fast as potential then flush with mild soap and water like before with the grease, but you may have to soak it a little more to get it out. Now if this is an old stain, one thing you can try is hydrogen peroxide. This can be used as a mild bleaching agent. Just pore a little in a cup and with a tooth brush scrub it into the stain let sit for about 20-30 minutes then flush with your soapy water solution. If this doesn't work, I found a goods at my local janitorial contribute shop called Perculator, it comes in spray bottle and is primarily a peroxide mix, and works pretty good, but it's still not a miracle worker. Coffee can be a pain, but with a little luck and timing on this one you can get it out. Now soda pop, if it's not an orange or red which I'll talk about in a minute, can usually be taken care of with the warm water and soap.
Food stains can range from greasy french fries smashed in the carpet to dried ketchup, to jelly beans and candy. Most of these can be dealt with with your soap and water. Ammonia can be added to the solution to help cut the greasy foods. Scrape the chunks out with a blunt knife before you get wet this will help to not spread the stain further. Candies might take a little more due to dyes added for color, wash as much as potential to take off the candy, if the stain remains you can try peroxide but like I said there are dyes in some candies that do just that, dye the carpet. Gum is someone else candy that can be removed with mostly picking it out but the rest might take a little chemical. Goof Off is a good one to keep on hand for a lot of dissimilar things, but it works great on gum too. After you pick most of it out just take a little Goof Off on a towel and wipe the rest right out.
Red Wine is sort of a food stain but treated a little different. If it's fresh flush with cold water and soak it up as much as possible. Try even a little club soda and pore directly onto the stain and soak it up with a towel. This should get most of it. One last trick is an enzyme cleaner, enzymes get right to it when it comes to food stains. They are known for removing food stuff stains, but I haven't had much luck with red wine though so I'll talk about it in a little on getting the red stains out of your carpet.
Now if you have a misfortune and happen to get a blood stain on your carpet then this one needs to be handled with cold water and not warm or you will set the stain. If it's dried then scrap the dried blood with a blunt knife to get the chunks out, vacuum them up, then scrub the area with cold water and a mild soap. Peroxide can be used to help take off the reddish tint if needed. Then flush again with the soap and water, then vacuum with your shop vac. One other remedy is a blood enzyme, which will eat the blood away. Blood Buster is good one, it's an enzymatic cleaner designed for bio stains.
One that I deal with upon opening is pet urine. Talk about nasty...but, hey they have to pee too, just not where we all the time want them to. This one is one you can go to your kitchen for, vinegar, helps to neutralize the acids in the pee. Supplies for this one are paper towels if still wet, white towels, mild soap and warm water, brush and vinegar. First soak up what you can with if it's still wet with the paper towels, next take your soapy solution of warm water and soap, 1/4oz. Of soap to a gallon of water, dip the brush and scrub the area with the soapy water, blot with the towel and repeat until the stain is gone. After wards pore a little vinegar over the stain and let set for about an hour. Lastly rinse with water and vacuum with a shop vac or dab with towels until mostly dry. If the stain is still there, let it dry, then apply an enzyme. Enzymes work no ifs ands or buts well for all bio stuffs along with urine. The guys over at Petguest have come up with a 100% enzyme integrate that is made for the elimination of pet stains and odors.
The old melted crayon stain in the carpet....Man what a mess this can be, but believe it or not it's pretty easy to take off if you have a clothes iron and a brown paper bag. Scrape the majority away with a blunt knife then lay the brown bag over the crayon and with the heated iron, rub it over the bag over the spot. The heat from the iron will melt the crayon into the bag. Just rotate the bag nearby to keep a clean side down and after a while the crayon will be on the bag not on the carpet. Patience on this one helps, but again if the spot remains try a little chemical like your Goof Off.
Paint is someone else carpet stain that can give you a bunch of problems. First thing you need to decree what kind of paint it is. If it's automotive paint then a solvent paint reducer or thinner can be used to take off it. I usually use lacquer thinner, works fast and removes most paint spills. Now if it's house paint, then scrape off the excess with a blunt knife and pull out the Goof Off, try not to spread it out to much, work small and from the face in on the stain. I guess nail polish is a paint, but with this one use nail polish remover or straight acetone with a towel, and again work the stain from the face in so to not spread it out to far.
Now this is probably got to be the worst carpet stain out there. The red stain in the carpet. This is caused by a #40 Red dye that is put in a lot of drinks like Kool Aid and, red and orange sodas. If you run across this one there is only one way to take off it and that's with a strong chemical. I have found a goods that I use on these type of stains and have had no ifs ands or buts good luck with it, it's called Red Dye Solution. There are others out there like Red Relief, and Red Out, all work pretty similar. You pore the chemical on the stain, and with a wet white towel and a steam iron you take off the stain. It is a time fascinating scheme and with some luck all of the stain will be removed. Sometimes a little blue hue will be left from the chemical but it sure is a lot better then a fascinating red stain jumping out at you. But with a little carpet dye over the top and your good as new. You can find these products usually at your local janitorial contribute shop or online. I'm working on getting some here on my site, so bare with me.
Stain removal In Carpetcan be frustrating at times, but there no substitute for a professional. These tips can help and may just save you but if you have any problems or feel that the stain is just a little above your head then don't hesitate to call an automotive interior repair expert like myself to come in a make your life a little easier. For those of you that are the professionals feel free to post your tips in the comments so we can all benefit from your expertise in carpet stain removal.
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