Help! I spilled bleach on my carpet!?

Question

I spilled bleach on my light beige carpet. It is a VERY noticable spot and live in an apartment so I'm sure they won't be happy if I can't at least mask it somehow. Is there a way I can try to get it back to it's original color (or near)?

all are good ideas...but i'm not gonna bleach the entire apartment and i don't trust myself to cut it out (even though it's tempting). so i went and got some RIT dye and put it on but it reacted with the bleach or something now it's too dark. i guess i'll keep shampooing it until it's lighter unless anyone has any better ideas. thanks for the help.

Answer 1

Try one of those RIT dyes, find one that is a close match to your carpet. I might mention the bleach will also eat at the fabric, I hope you got it neutralized good.

Answer 2

Most of these posts are old and give wrong information. It then becomes more difficult in color correcting a simple situation. Knowledge and correct information are essential in getting a perfect color match.

Rit dye, sharpies, Tea bags, and coffee have no place is repairing a bleach mark. It is also redundant to keep posting that a bleach stain is not a stain and nothing can be done except cutting and replacing the area. A stain can be caused by the adding of or the removing of partial color. They are both considered permanent and require correct knowledge in repairing. The correct methods should always be used before cutting and replacing a section of carpeting.

When done correctly, a repaired bleach stain looks and feels the same as the surrounding color. When done correctly, the color will not come out. The first step is in removing all traces of bleach. Hot water extraction followed by use of a bleach neutralizer is very important. Doing this correctly will insure that the color loss will not continue.

Understanding a few concepts makes bleach stain carpet repair easy. I like to see and label Bleach Marks as Partial Bleach Stains. Let me explain. All carpet colors are a mixture of only three colors. That being said, we have only Red, blue, and yellow. Chemicals such as household bleach will remove one or more of these primary colors. When Blue is missing, then the bleach mark appears orange. When blue and red are missing, then the stain will appear yellow.

When restoring color to a bleach stain, it makes clear and common sense to replace only the primary color or colors missing. You would not want to use colors similar to the carpeting color. Any color added to a bleach mark will blend with the remaining colors. Some professional carpet cleaners continue in this practice with unsatisfactory results. Large companies also continue to sell many different shades and colors of dye for the purpose of color correcting a bleach spot. These are not needed and will not match. This is why their selling videos do not show the end result.

It also makes sense to use only the same type of dyes found in carpeting. Use only carpet mill dye and replace only the missing Primary colors.

Answer 3

Ok, I'm goiing to agree to try the tea or cofee. But before you do that, my suggestion is to let the people in the office know what the problem is, they are usually pretty nice and if it's a large new complex. Most apartments have all the same carpeting, and replace carpet often, of the same color. They can possibly give you a few scraps after the next apartment gets new carpet. Then you can bleach those scraps and test the tea and coffee mixture to try to fix it. THere's no point in hiding it from them. If you can fix it, they wont care. If you cant, you'll have to pay anyway.

Answer 4

Patching it professionally is the only solution that will not get caught by your exit review with property management for your refund. It is not that expensive. Small matching sample can be sewed in pretty easily. All those apartments use approximately the same beige carpet so matching it shouldn't be too hard.

Answer 5

Get an exacto knife (knife w/angled edge)..cut out the area in a circular pattern. Go to a very inconspicuous area where it has the same carpet. Trace the shape and cut the good carpet out. Get gorilla glue...adhere the good carpet in the 1st spot...and adhere a sample piece from your local carpet store to the bad carpet spot in the other spot.

OR....Go to your local hardware store. Find one to two cans of paint...black & white makes gray...beige...green and black make dark black...spray lightly over the carpet area that is discolored w/a light mist of sprays...to blend.

Answer 6

Carpetlayers work in undetectable patches all the time. I'm not saying call a carpet layer. I'm saying buy a piece of salvage carpet that matches it, and patch it yourself. You work the fluff at the edges of the patch, feathering it in so it's seamless and undetectable.

Good luck.

Answer 7

you can buy carpet dye on the internet try getting the colour as close as you can. try not to order it too dark or it will look like a great big coffee stain.lol.

Answer 8

I would go the lady tita`s answer ,cut it out and replace it with the same square fro under the heater or some thing just make sure you glue it down !!!

Answer 9

Try diluted tea or coffee. Don't laugh, people dye fabrics with both.

Answer 10

oooh unlikely bleach eliminates color it doesnt just cover the original........translation ur screwed