An indispensable attribute of a romantic evening or a theme party are candles made of wax or paraffin. However, an unpleasant moment can be a candle overturned on a carpet or rug, which not only leaves an ugly drip on the pile, but when removing a lumpy mass, a spot under it. Experienced housewives offer several secrets on how to quickly deal with such stains and safely remove wax from the surface of the carpet.
Methods Using Household Chemicals
You can deal with wax stains on the carpet with the help of folk recipes or special household chemicals that are offered in stores. Among the most famous methods are:
- the use of any solvent (white spirit, gasoline or acetone is suitable, they effectively remove wax stains from carpets, but they can harm the paint, which is why it is better to try this type of panacea from a greasy spot on a small and inconspicuous area of the carpet);
- special tool Acidol (this is an inexpensive and affordable ammonia solution in any hardware store; it perfectly removes stains of wax and paraffin from the carpet);
- substances based on soda (they can be mixed with water in equal proportions, the resulting slurry is applied to a wax stain and allowed to absorb a little time, after which the pollution is removed).
Important! Any household chemicals can cause irreparable harm to the carpet, so you should always consider this possibility and be extremely careful. If there is doubt about the fidelity of the selected solution, it is better to contact a professional dry cleaning service.
Traditional methods
Popular recipes for removing wax stains are simple and affordable. This will not require a large number of tools or a lot of time, only available tools are used:
- freezing and heating (wax perfectly lends itself to freezing with a small piece of ice, after which large pieces of wax are broken and removed, and smaller ones are heated through thick paper, this must be done until the wax from the carpet passes onto a napkin);
- a solution of salt, vinegar and soda (gruel is prepared from the listed ingredients and rubbed with it a paraffin stain, after the composition has hardened, it is cleaned with a soft brush, then the carpet needs to be washed with shampoo);
- composition based on turpentine and ammonia (the elements are mixed in equal proportions and applied to the place of pollution, let it harden and rinse with a soft brush, after which the carpet should dry with natural ventilation).
Important! After applying any of the presented methods, you should thoroughly clean the carpet with shampoo or a special carpet wash.
Then it remains only to dry the product, but you need to do this in a well-ventilated room, without the use of heating elements or a hairdryer.
Which carpets are easy to remove from wax?
Wax droplets are much easier to clean from low-pile rugs from natural materials, dark colors. On carpets of light colors, with a long pile, the wax will be very noticeable and stains will be difficult to clean. The choice of means for removing streaks of candles should also depend on the color and length of the pile of the carpet. For light rugs, more aggressive solutions or special products that can be found in household chemical stores or household ones will do.
Which is easier to remove: fresh or hardened wax?
The eternal question is which wax is easier to clean, fresh or already frozen. It should be immediately indicated that it is much easier to remove the wax drip immediately after the capsule is tipped over. At this moment, the stain will not have time to soak into the textile surface, the losses will not be so deplorable.
But it so happens that drops of wax on the carpet are noticed too late, when it is already frozen and "stuck" to the pile. In this case, you can’t do the usual warming up or freezing, you will have to use aggressive mixtures that can dissolve the wax stain and remove it from the surface.
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