OMG, Please help! I just spilled red candle wax all over the carpet in the bedroom. How do I remove it?

Question

It's a mess and I need to get it out. Soon. What do I use?

Answer 1

I googled it (how to remove candle wax), and this was the first hit.

http://www.doityourself.com/stry/candlewax

There were others there so you might try it.

Good luck, that's quite a mess.

Answer 2

You will need paper towels and an electric iron. I recommend a very absorbent paper towel for the best results. Use white towels only as dyes may bleed onto the carpet when exposed to the heat of the iron.



Before beginning the procedure, use a brush or your hands to pick away at any of the excess wax that you can get out of the carpet fiber. Be gentle and be careful not to unravel the pile when brushing.


1. Plug the iron in and turn it on to the lowest setting possible.


2. After the iron heats up, take a paper towel and place it over the wax. Gently apply the warm iron to the paper towel. The wax should begin to liquefy and the paper towel will absorb it. Do not set the temperature of the iron any higher than the warm setting, or you may harm synthetic fibers. For berber or some sculptured carpets, you may have to press down harder with the iron. Be especially careful with the berbers and do not pull on any fibers or loops. Pulling on those loops can cause a "run" much like the runs in panty hose and can ruin the rug, as the run will travel across the length of the carpet.


3. Continue working the iron and paper towel until all of the wax is absorbed. You may need to turn the paper towel several times as the area where the wax is being absorbed becomes saturated. If it is a large spill you may need more than one paper towel. The watch word here is patience, as working this process can take time.


This method should work effectively. In cases of very stubborn spills, you may come to a point in the procedure where you have absorbed all of the wax you can and find that there is still some residue in the carpet. Try to gently pick out as much of the remainder as you can. It may help to apply an ice cube to the stain and re-harden the melted wax. Caution is advised here too, as some dyes may fade when water is applied. Check with your manufacturer if in doubt.


If you have tried all the above steps and you still have some wax in your carpet you may wish to call a professional carpet cleaning company. Choose a reputable company as most carpet cleaning services that advertise in mailers or have "specials" do not train their personnel to handle such a job and they may make a bigger mess than the one you began with.

Answer 3

Take some ice and put it in a plastic bag, then rub it over the spilled wax. Scrape as much of the wax as possible off with a table knife. Then take an iron, set it on a low setting and prepare to iron out the remaining wax. You'll need several paper towels (or other absorbent, disposaple material). Place the paper towel over the wax area, then set the iron on top of it for a moment. Remove the paper towel with the wax, and repeat the process until you no longer see wax on your floor.
This really works!

Answer 4

...get several white rags, then lay one rag at a time over the spill.
Rag must be larger than the spill. Apply a hot iron on the rag pressing into the spill - quickly. Then "iron the stain so the rag absorbs the wax. Change the rag rapidly and often. Changing to clean cloth quickly takes up the wax into the rag. Then balance of the waxed carpet fibers can be cut out by making slashes across the stain with a new razor knife. Just apply quick slashing strokes and vacuum up or sweep away quickly as you slash ...( I used to be in apt management) You can use the steam setting.

Answer 5

Put an ice cube(s) over the melted wax in the carpet to harden it, then, take a butter knife and scrape it off. If that does'nt work, you can put a piece of absorbent cloth over the spill, a piece of wax paper over the cloth, then use an iron on high heat to remove the stain. The cloth absorbs the wax, and then wax paper prevents the wax from getting allover your iron! Good luck!

Answer 6

Put a brown bag over the candle wax & iron directly on the bag. The candle wax should melt into the bag and you should be able to lift the wax right up off the carpet. Good Luck!

Answer 7

Use an Ice cube to set the wax up Scrape off all extra wax with a butter knife place a paper towel over the wax Iron with medium warmth over the wax replace the paper towel in lots of instances this could get rid of the wax solid luck!

Answer 8

brown paper bag and a clothes iron .heat the iron up put the bag on the floor and run the iron over it ,it may take more than 1 bag .the wax will soak in to the brown paper bag ,when the heat is applied to the top ,repeat as nessary. im a carpet installer and deal with things like this quit often ! some of the suggestions i seen could damage your carpet but with the iron and the bag most are reversable.1st scrape the wax off! suck the lose wax up with a vaccume .

Answer 9

Ice Cubes. Rub the ice cube on the area to make the wax cold and it should come off of the carpet quite easily.

Good Luck.

Answer 10

very simple.

first, let the wax cool and dry.

then cut up some brown paper bags to cover the wax.

put your iron on the hottest setting.

place brown paper over spot and put iron down on it. don't leave iron on paper long. just keep putting clean paper and repeat. don't re-use the same paper. keep taking new pieces and repeat procedure until all the wax is gone. works great. i've dont it many times.