I spilled an entire jar of melted vanilla candle wax on the carpet and it's been down there for over 24 hours. How and what can I use to get it up? There is an area that the jar laid upside down and all the wax ended up in that one spot and it's solid as a rock. Please help. Can't afford new carpeting right now.
2006-08-07 05:17:57 · 10 answers · asked by Antoinette 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Cleaning & Laundry
hair dryer, or try an iron. melt it and soak it up the best you can. it should eventually flake out of the carpet after general wear and tear.
2006-08-07 05:24:08 · answer #1 · answered by funkylobe 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I've done this before and it works great!!! Take a paper bag (make sure you have a lot of them.) and put it down on the wax, take an iron and on a low setting and slowly move it back and forth over the wax. You'll see that the wax will slowly be transferred onto the paper bag. When that bag is covered, use another.
It takes a wicked long time to do it so you'll have to have patience but it works wicked good!!!
2006-08-07 05:24:57 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put a piece of an old bed sheet down and then use a hot clothes iron over top of it to melt it and then remove the melted wax with the old sheet or rag.
2006-08-07 05:23:16 · answer #3 · answered by The Flashman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My wife did this she put newspaper on top of the wax and took a warm to hot iron on top of the newspaper. The wax would melt and the newspaper would soak it up. It got 99% of it up then she just scrubbed the rest and you cant tell the difference now.
2006-08-07 05:30:25 · answer #4 · answered by D R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pop up what you can, then set an iron on low, put down several layes of paper towel or newspaper, hold the iron in place and the heat will melt the wax and the paper will absoeb it. you may have to do it several times to get it all up.
2006-08-07 05:24:41 · answer #5 · answered by shar71vette 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Paper and an iron, basically. Check out the link.
2006-08-07 05:22:09 · answer #6 · answered by Dan C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
use a hair dryer to melt it and just soak it up with dry tissue
2006-08-07 05:21:42 · answer #7 · answered by locker_paul 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Freeze it do not melt it, it will just get stuck even worse. If you freeze it it should come off.
2006-08-07 05:41:26 · answer #8 · answered by chelseasikes18 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I chill it and break off all that i can, then I use use heat on the last stubborn fragments
2006-08-07 05:38:46 · answer #9 · answered by Kuji 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DO NOT MELT IT.
Freeze it. It will flake off.
2006-08-07 05:22:57 · answer #10 · answered by ed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋