How do you remove chewing gum from carpet?

Answer 1

One effective way is to put an ice cube over the wad of gum. This will usually made the gum much harder and less sticky, Then try a putty knife or the older type of beer can opener to scrape the gum gently from the rug. If you have access to "dry ice", it works even better. I tried using a hand-held steam generator tool (for cleaning upholstery), but that makes the mess worse.

Answer 2

Get some freezer spray - this will freeze the gum solid without soaking the area. Then you can shatter it into fragments with a hammer and vacuum it up. Might take a few goes to get most of it off.

Answer 3

To remove chewing gum from carpet, get out your electric hair dryer. Heat the gum, being careful not to melt the carpet fibers. Use a piece of plastic wrap or a plastic bag to lift the softened gum away. Just allow it to stick to the plastic, then pull it up. This may get most of it.

Next, apply Extra Strength Ben Gay, or another muscle rub containing methyl salicylate. Use plastic again, or a rag to pull more gum out. Repeat if necessary. Once you completely remove the chewing gum from the carpet, clean the area with a mild detergent solution (a few drops of dish soap in a cup of warm water will work). Rinse with warm water and dry the area.

Answer 4

Try a product called Goo Gone it removes wax from carpets too

Answer 5

With a dull knife or the edge of a spoon scrape away as much of the gum as possible. Vacuum up the bits of gum that you were able to loosen. This step alone may take several attempts. Next, rub the gum with a piece of ice and continue to scrape the gum out of the carpet with the edge of a spoon. To remove final traces of the gum saturate the stain with a cleaning fluid, repeating applications as necessary. If a sugar stain remains, sponge it off with water and or a mild liquid cleaning detergent.

To remove chewing gum from carpet, you can use your hair dryer. Just heat the gum, being careful not to melt any carpet fibers. Then you can use a piece of plastic wrap or a plastic bag to lift the softened gum away. Allow it to stick to the plastic, and pull it up. This will often get most of the gum.

Answer 6

Cream Rinse for Hair. Seriously, it works. Rub cream rinse into the gum and it turns to a loose putty type substance that can then be removed. This is how I got it out of my kid's hair (and my mom used to use for us). Same concept applies to fiber (rugs).

Answer 7

Check this one out people, get the stuff you use to freeze warts with, and freeze the gum, crack it with pliers and vac it out. It works super fast and makes the gum hard as a rock. I know, the ice is the same, but I have been doing flooring for 15 years, and I've worked with some EXPENSIVE carpets, and they freak out if you try to get water near their 100 year old wool rugs, so we used that little trick and it worked like a charm. Works great on microfibre chairs and couches to. I haven't tried it on any really delicate fabrics yet.. but if anybody does, please let me know if it works.

Answer 8

use ice on the gum and comb it out with a fine tooth comb

Answer 9

use ice when the gum gets hard it will come up easy

Answer 10

try peanut butter and hot water, if that dont work, take an old cloth and put it over it and take an iron on full steam and go over it and it will come off slowly but surely