Blue Tack trodden into carpet!

Smashing

The prochem solvall stuff is specialist cleaning gunk so is probably stupidly expensive - My mum is familiar with the caretaker at the local school so she went and asked him to borrow something to get it off. Might be worth asking at your daughter's school - they'll be well practised in removing blu tack and chewing gum type stains.

Definitely try the citrus stain remover first though - get as much as you can off with a blunt knife before you start.

wendym

As it's similar to chewing gum, it might be worth holding an ice cube (in cloth or paper so you don't wet the carpet) over it, then trying to chip bits off.

I know WD40 works on stubborn Blutack on walls, but that doesn't help on carpet.

DrFluffy

Ice - make some cubes/grap a bag of frozen veg from the freezer. Hold them on the blue tack to harden it and then the majority will pick out. Then use a suade brush to remove the remaining...

yummy121

I just tried the olive oil and rubbed it over the blue tack with a cotton bud,even though it was well trodden in and its a lightish colour carpet it worked well! The blue tack just came off on the cotton bud

tattycath

Smashing wrote: »

The prochem solvall stuff is specialist cleaning gunk so is probably stupidly expensive - My mum is familiar with the caretaker at the local school so she went and asked him to borrow something to get it off. Might be worth asking at your daughter's school - they'll be well practised in removing blu tack and chewing gum type stains.

Definitely try the citrus stain remover first though - get as much as you can off with a blunt knife before you start.

Really!!! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
Or is it just mind mind doing overtime again...:o

bunty109

Get some brown paper and place that over the top and try ironing it with a warm iron. That's what I do with chewing gum and most of that usually comes off/out.

BarbaraN

yummy121 wrote: »

I just tried the olive oil and rubbed it over the blue tack with a cotton bud,even though it was well trodden in and its a lightish colour carpet it worked well! The blue tack just came off on the cotton bud

Fantastic - worked really well:j

ste_d43

yummy121 wrote: »

I just tried the olive oil and rubbed it over the blue tack with a cotton bud,even though it was well trodden in and its a lightish colour carpet it worked well! The blue tack just came off on the cotton bud

astonishing, this does actually work, just tried it on BT trodden into the carpet by the kids and it came out in 10 mins or so...

Surfboy

Amazed olive oil really did work.. took a really old (5 years plus) and large blue tack mark out of my sons bedroom carpet in less than 5 minutes

andrewjameshoward

Had this problem with a similar product to blu-tack - the green one.

Ice does not work. With chewing gum it makes it brittle. Doesn't do it with this stuff. Maybe needs to be colder. Maybe dry ice would work - who knows. Hair dryer does not work. The product does not get noticeably runnier.

This worked. White spirit on kitchen roll. Give it a good rub. Product disappears (as with any solvent, you may wish to colour test on a small hidden area of carpet - I had no issue with colour run). Now you have smelly white spirit on your carpet. Immediately wash with soapy water (I have a Vax wet and dry and was able to immediately whoosh the area with that, but by hand should work too, if slower).