does anyody know how to get candle wax off the carpet?

Question

the wax is completly dry now

Answer 1

Put a piece of wax paper over it and iron it. The iron will heat the wax, the wax will re-melt and the wax paper soaks it up.

Answer 2

Unfortunately, I do!

The easiest method is to hide the wax, rather than remove it. Use a hair dryer on high heat to melt the wax. As the wax melts, it seeps down to the base of the carpet or the pad. I don't know how far it seeps down, but I know you can no longer see it in the carpet! This works even with dark candle wax.

A more tedious method is to take squares cut from a plain brown sack and iron out the wax. Place the sack over the wax, and use a household iron on low. The wax is absorbed into the brown paper. This method takes many applications and a lot of time and patience. It does remove, rather than hide the wax, though. Best method for people with OCD!

Answer 3

Now that the wax has dried, gently remove what you can with a knife, very gently. Then the remainder of the wax, put down several layers of newspaper on top of the wax, then set your iron on low setting and put the iron on the newspaper. The heat from the iron will warm the wax and it will absorb into the newspaper. You may have to do this several times, but it works.

Answer 4

Take a brown paper bag (like the ones from the supermarket) lay it over the cold wax and with a warm iron, iron the paper. It will heat the wax and the paper will absorb the wax.

Answer 5

when moving into an apartment , I removed a spot of candle wax on a carpet that was nearly 3 feet in diameter, and was totally successfull.
I simply laid paper towles on the wax, and applied a warm iron hot enough to melt the wax easily. It was INSTANT, simple, and extremely easy.

Answer 6

Try putting a piece of paper towel over the wax, and running a hot iron over it. The wax should transfer to the paper towel.

Answer 7

Remove as much of the surface wax as possible. Place between two sheets of absorbent kitchen paper and press with warm iron, moving paper around so clean sections will absorb the wax. Any residual colour can be removed by dabbing with colourless methylated spirits before washing.

Answer 8

Drop some boiling water above the candle wax spots. and wipe it away quickly.

Answer 9

I think the best thing is to ice it down. Once brittle it will crack and crumble with pressure and you can vacuum it up. Good luck. For the remainder .. see above, but maybe iron over a paper towel.

Answer 10

lite it with fire, it'll turn liquid again and then you can clean it up with paper towels.