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blood in carpet

OverprofileOverprofile Registered User regular
edited February 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
How do I get blood out of a carpet?

no, not murder, a nosebleed

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  • Hobbit0815Hobbit0815 Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Hydrogen Peroxide.

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  • Hobbit0815Hobbit0815 Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I know this.

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  • OverprofileOverprofile Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    wait its also in my keyboard

    hydrogen peroxide again?

    in an interesting note there is a bottle of hydrogen peroxide beside my monitor

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  • Hobbit0815Hobbit0815 Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I dunno about a .. keyboard.. probably just regular cleaning will take it out. Take off all the keys, you know..? Probably use hydrogen peroxide too.. But I thought you meant specifically for a carpet, which it does work on.

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  • OverprofileOverprofile Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Hobbit0815 wrote: »
    I dunno about a .. keyboard.. probably just regular cleaning will take it out. Take off all the keys, you know..? Probably use hydrogen peroxide too.. But I thought you meant specifically for a carpet, which it does work on.

    alright, thanks a lot :)

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  • Hobbit0815Hobbit0815 Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Np.

    I have the strangest feeling something bad is about to happen. <.<

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  • ThanatosThanatos Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Hydrogen Peroxide will bleach the carpet, won't it?

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  • Hobbit0815Hobbit0815 Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Well actually.. I wouldn't know, my carpets are light colored. Hmm. It's always been the way I've done it, but maybe you probably shouldn't do it with a BROWN or BLACK carpet.. It's better to have a small patch of white than red on a bright carpet, eh?

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  • FalxFalx Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Soak the area in warm water and pour a generous helping of meat tenderiser on it. You might need to repeat it a few times, it got the blood-spots out of my white as snow gi like a dream.

    Edit: Oh and leave the tenderiser on the area for 30 minutes or so before wiping it up.

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  • ThanatosThanatos Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Falx wrote: »
    Soak the area in warm water and pour a generous helping of meat tenderiser on it. You might need to repeat it a few times, it got the blood-spots out of my white as snow gi like a dream.

    Edit: Oh and leave the tenderiser on the area for 30 minutes or so before wiping it up.
    Soaking carpet in water is generally not a good idea. It will cause mold and shit under the carpet.

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  • BobCescaBobCesca Is a girl Birmingham, UKRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    if it's blood I wouldn't use warm water.

    Try dabbing it with some cold water and salt...it works for getting blood out of other fabrics.

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  • ProPatriaMoriProPatriaMori Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I've always used hydrogen peroxide. Somehow I don't think the stuff you get in bottles at the drugstore will manage to bleach a carpet before evaporating but, like Hobbit, I too have light-colored carpet.

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  • EliminationElimination Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    BobCesca wrote: »
    if it's blood I wouldn't use warm water.

    Try dabbing it with some cold water and salt...it works for getting blood out of other fabrics.

    This. Salt is a natural blood thinner in the human body i believe, it should work.

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  • supabeastsupabeast Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Thanatos wrote: »
    Hydrogen Peroxide will bleach the carpet, won't it?

    Wool carpet yes, synthentic probably not but test in a closet first.

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  • TrillianTrillian Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Thanatos wrote: »
    Hydrogen Peroxide will bleach the carpet, won't it?

    Not in the concentration or amount that one would pour on it for this purpose.

    Have at it!

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  • KivutarKivutar Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    If you allow the peroxide to sit, it will bleach.
    Really though, if you clean it immediately, plain water should be all that's necessary.
    The longer it sits, the more difficult it will be to clean.

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  • RUNN1NGMANRUNN1NGMAN Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Hydrogen peroxide is the main ingredient in OxyClean, Seventh Generation, and the Resolve Dual Action Carpet Cleaner of Awesomeness I have. It should be ok for the carpet, just test it in a corner or something if you're worried about it.

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  • korrianderkorriander Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Thanatos wrote: »
    Falx wrote: »
    Soak the area in warm water and pour a generous helping of meat tenderiser on it. You might need to repeat it a few times, it got the blood-spots out of my white as snow gi like a dream.

    Edit: Oh and leave the tenderiser on the area for 30 minutes or so before wiping it up.
    Soaking carpet in water is generally not a good idea. It will cause mold and shit under the carpet.

    Warm water is the fastest way to get a blood stain to set permanently. Never use warm water on blood, always cold!

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  • TrillianTrillian Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Kivutar wrote: »
    If you allow the peroxide to sit, it will bleach.
    Really though, if you clean it immediately, plain water should be all that's necessary.
    The longer it sits, the more difficult it will be to clean.

    There is not enough bleaching power in commercial peroxide you get at a drugstore to bleach a carpet, no matter how long you leave it on, unless you re-treat the same spot constantly for years on end.

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  • SzechuanosaurusSzechuanosaurus Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2009
    Hydrogen Peroxide and other oxygen bleach products will also break-down the DNA in the blood and typically make a blood spill forensically indistinguishable from a tomato sauce spill, even if visible stains are left behind.

    Worth knowing, I guess.

    They are also colour-safe and shouldn't bleach your carpet like a chlorine bleach would.

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  • KivutarKivutar Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Trillian wrote: »
    There is not enough bleaching power in commercial peroxide you get at a drugstore to bleach a carpet, no matter how long you leave it on, unless you re-treat the same spot constantly for years on end.
    Really? I worked for years in a textile restoration shop, and we used commercially-available hydrogen peroxide daily to treat small areas of colour bleed. Believe it or not, it will bleach noticeably.

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  • FFFF Once Upon a Time In OaklandRegistered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Windex.

    No really. My gf told me about it and showed me once when -- er -- well there was blood on fabric and she cleaned it up with Windex.

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  • LaonarLaonar Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    EW!

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  • MeeOkMeeOk Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Either use a cloth damp with water without drenching the carpet, or else, oh, I don't know.. maybe get an actual carpet cleaning liquid? :winky:

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  • Hobbit0815Hobbit0815 Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    "Hot - chocolate", "cold - blood".. rule of the thumb for those two stains.

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  • ArasenArasen Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Maybe a little late on this but Woolite is great for getting blood out of fabric.

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  • Judge-ZJudge-Z Teacher, for Great Justice Upstate NYRegistered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Also maybe a little late, but my dog cut his foot once and tracked some blood around. Best thing? Cold water. As in as cold as your sink will allow or from the fridge. Just pour a tiny bit onto the blood, and it clots and lifts right off - dab with a cloth and no stain, no soaked carpet. I was amazed how well it worked.

    Now this was fresh blood, and it may not work once it dries. Key to stopping any stain really is to get it whilst fresh.

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  • TrillianTrillian Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Kivutar wrote: »
    Trillian wrote: »
    There is not enough bleaching power in commercial peroxide you get at a drugstore to bleach a carpet, no matter how long you leave it on, unless you re-treat the same spot constantly for years on end.
    Really? I worked for years in a textile restoration shop, and we used commercially-available hydrogen peroxide daily to treat small areas of colour bleed. Believe it or not, it will bleach noticeably.

    I'm sure you buy vats of more powerful stuff. I mean the drugstore variety, which is only 3% or so.

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