We had a powercut last night, and oneof those stupid fancy candles that burn down the middle leaving a surrounding wall collapsed and flared up alarmingly. The flame was too big to blow out really, so I took it into the kitchen with the aim of "drowning" it in the safety of the sink - but on the way left quite a trail of candlewax.
Any ideas on how to remove it without digging a hole in the carpet, please?
Pat
Scrape off as much as you can without damaging the carpet. Cover with paper towels or brown paper (like paper bags are made of) and go over the spots with a warm iron. Change the paper as needed until all of the wax has been absorbed. Don't have the iron set too high or you could melt/scorch the carpet.
Do as Jeri suggested -- remove excess was, cover with brown paper (bag or craft type paper) or paper towels, iron with your regular iron, change paper as needed until nothing is ironed up from the fibers. It works great, honest. I have used this technique on carpet, clothing, bed linens and it has worked every time. CiaoMeow >^;;^<
"Pat P" wrote > Thanks to everyone for the advice - I thought it was something like that -
The advice was exactly what the Altar Guild at my Anglican church does--and they have tons of experience with cleaning candle wax off just about anything that doesn't move. And one of them didn't heed the warm iron advice a few years back, leading to a black iron shaped mark on the red carpet, right before the sanctuary steps.
Dawne
"Bruce Fletcher wrote Pat P wrote
My not quite ex-DH gave DS a pair of wind up lights for Christmas, since DS and DDIL often go camping. Theirs also have a solar panel on top, so they can charge up sitting on the truck dashboard on the way to the campsite.
Dawne
That is a great method. You can try to freeze some of it first to break it off - putting ice cubes on it - the larger parts - once they freeze you can break/lift the chunks away. I've use Jeri's method - and it works well - just will take you a bit of time.
Ellice
If you use the freezing method, try a cooler block inside of ice so as not to soak the carpet.
If you use the freezing method, try a cooler block inside of ice so as not to soak the carpet.
I think I`ve got most of it out with the iron and kitchen towel method thanks - I may give it another go tomorrow in daylight, but I`m worn out at the moment. The doctor decided that my blood count is rather low so I started a course of vitamin B12 injections today (ouch!) and iron pills - could be why I`ve been so darned tired and dizzy lately. rawling around ironing the carpet isn`t the ideal occupation.
Ice cubes are quite good for getting furniture indentations out of a carpet, too. As for the wax - I seem to have got it out of everthing but the black socks I was wearing at the time! I`ve put them in the freezer for now - I`ll try them again tomorrow! John was a bit surprised when he went to get some sausages and found my socks in there!
In fact we`re both pretty tired today - spent two hours at Addenbrooks hospital yesterday (plus a couple of hours travelling) while John had more tests for when he gets his pacemaker fitted. We couldn`t have been more kindly treated if we`d been private patients. It really made it an enjoyable experience.
Pat
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