On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:12:13 -0500, Nate Nagel
wrote:

Anyone have any luck getting a presumably coffee stain out of white
Berber carpet? (yeah, I know...) bought myself one of those carpet
cleaning doomajiggers after I got my bonus check, and tried it out on a
section of the carpet that'd been stained when I had a little incident
with leaving for a couple days right when the T/P valve on my water
heater decided to start leaking. That part came up perfect, amazingly
enough, so I decided to try to actually get this carpet looking decent
rather than go straight to "rip it up and start scraping up the ****ty
tile underneath" like I'd planned.

So I have this coffee-colored stain in one corner of the room. Small,
but it's a stain nonetheless. I figured it wasn't going to come up but
I ran the carpet cleaner over it and it disappeared. Set up fan to blow
over area. Next day, it's back. Tried a vinegar solution, it
disappeared again, ran the carpet cleaner over it, set up fan. Next
day, it's back. Tried a bleach solution. Ran carpet cleaner over it.
It's drying now, but based on previous experience, I'm guessing it will
show up again once it's dry.

Any ideas? Also, how can a brown stain on white carpet disappear
seemingly as soon as water hits it, but come right back again once it's dry?

nate


Actually, not so weird. Place a plastic sheet between the carpet and
carpet padding and fan dry for a day or two. You stain is most likely
wicking up from the padding. Don't use bleach on carpet. OxyClean,
or any of its clones, (mixed in very hot water) should be effective on
carpet coffee stains. Caution: It foams a lot when you add the
powder to hot water.