How do you clean up chewing gum from carpeting?

Question

This is old gum, stuck and piled tight into a low dense carpet.

Answer 1

i have always rubbed a piece of ice on it to get it hard & then pick at it. I have heard that peanut butter works well too but i have not tried it.

Answer 2

I see a lot of the old-fashioned remedy answers here, such as peanut butter and ice. If you go with them, expect a lot of work and less than perfect results. There was one answer that actually works -- and works very very well. Goo Gone is a great product.

I have five kids, three still living at home -- and I have 4 grand kids. I also have dogs. Wanna bet I don't get a lot of gum and other problems on my carpet? Goo Gone also works well on most other surfaces. It has taken gum and goo off most of the wood surfaces in my home without damaging or staining the wood.

Follow the directions on the bottle, just let a surprisingly small amount of Goo Gone sit on the gum for a few minutes and then lift it off. I normally go thru a half dozen or more paper towels in the lift off operation for gum. With a really big or really deep gum gob, a second application may be needed.

Go grab a bottle of Goo Gone. Try it. Then come back and give me your best answer rating.

I'd wish you good luck, but you won't really need it.

Regards.

Answer 3

you should be able to buy some kind of water-based chemical for carpets. If you use peanut butter it might get it out but then you'll have the peanut butter stain which would be difficult to remove. Peanut butter works on getting gum out of hair because it has oil in it. I had to remove gum from my son's hair once and I used peanut butter but I had to rub that stuff in all the way to the scalp. It worked after about 30 min. I am thinking you probably wouldn't want to put anything oily on your carpets.

Answer 4

There is a spray available that freezes the gum. On sidewalks you just pop the gum right up. On carpet, you would probably have to pick at it. You might have to go to a hardware store or janitorial supply store.

Answer 5

take a couple ice cubes and hold it on the gum until it freezes and then pick the gum out while it is in this frozen state it looses it's stickiness I wouldn't try anything like peanut butter or WD40 they will leave a greasy spot on your carpet the water form the ice cubes will dry stain free.

Answer 6

definite, Freezing. you will get a sutiable aerosol freezing spray from electronics providers (interior the united kingdom Maplin do mail order and function shops in many cities) this is frequently used for prognosis of thermal faults yet is likewise a stable way of having the chewing gum right down to a sub 0 tempreature the place it turns into annoying and brittle and may be broken off.

Answer 7

Try an ice pack instead of ice cubes. (Those blue colored blocks that you freeze and use in coolers.) You don't want to have the ice melting and adding to the mess. Lay it on top of the gum until it freezes then carefully scrape off.

Answer 8

well I have a new car and no more than a week after having it one of my Lovely kids got gum on my seat.I took a Ice cube and let it soak on top of the gum for 15 minutes or and it came off,Try a half hr or so on the carpet.Good Luck

Answer 9

try goo gone on a a piece of carpet in an inconspicuous part. Another alternative may be to take scissors and just carefully trim it out of there.

Answer 10

your best bet is to use ice to freeze the gum, then depending on how spread out it is try to pick it off the pile. be sure it is really hard so to make it easier to pull off.