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There Goes my Deposit
Sunxine
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I had a few friends over last night. We were drinking and listening to music, small party atmosphere, and I accidently knocked over someone's screwdriver. Now there is a big piss-colored stain on the carpet. Any suggestions on getting a stain like this out? I'd prefer to not lose my deposit over an OJ stain. The worst part is that class is over in May and I'm going home for the summer. I was so close.
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That's weird, I could have sworn I covered that. Nope, I guess I didn't; sorry. Well the answer is: yes of course I tried a carpet cleaner. It faded the stain slightly making it look less like OJ and more like urine. All I could think was, "Shit. Now she's going to think I've been keeping a pet."
This works best when the spill is fresh, and I've noted it helps to have a buzz on to kill the mind-numbing repetition of it all. Does work wonders though.
Oddly enough, I did not try regular soap and water. I tried club soda first. That didn't work, so I went to Target and bought some generic carpet cleaner. Still nothing. I just made the post hoping someone knew some kind of stain removing secret. It's a long shot, I know.
You can buy a nice Bissel cleaner for 30 bucks and it cleans great. Small enough to be operated with one hand.
Unf. the thing to do with a stain like this is actually clean it before it dries, but failing that you can try direct application of dish-soap after you re-wet the stain with warm water. You'll have to clean it more then once if it's bad. Another hint is to take a comb and rake up the carpet with it every time you wet it - that keeps it from changing texture.
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I've had a few friends who have shit like that happen and they figure they're not gonna get the deposit back. They don't panic and rent steam cleaners a month before moving out -- they give up and simply don't clean the place AT ALL. They figure the deposit goes towards hiring a cleaning service to come in and do the work for you
Not all places are vicious about deposits, of course. Some will do anything to keep them, while others will just ping you for obvious problems. Like the stain on the carpet -- sure, it's ugly and they'll have to get it cleaned. So they rent a steam cleaner and have the maintenance guy run it, and ping you the $50 or so they were charged.
I'm pretty sure you guys got hosed then, and there's a whole host of other issue at play there (they didnt adhere to proper landlord and tenant law)
2 put a bunch of paper towels on it.
3 stomp on the paper towels with a booted foot (a foot with a boot).
4 Stomp it.
5 Stomp it again.
6 Stomp it good.
7 Stomp it harder.
8 Maybe even try jumping on it.
9 Remove paper towels
goto :1
NO.
First make up a very small amount then apply a VERY small amount to the corner of the room where people can't see it.
Check to see if it turns the carpet a weird colour.
Then carry on.
This should be considered when you stick anything on a carpet that isn't water.
Satans..... hints.....
go to Publix (if there's one near you), they rent rugcleaners for like 10 bucks a day