Red wine stain help!

Skintmama

My SIL swears that pouring soda water onto red wine spills works brilliantly. Never tried it myself though. Not one for wasting wine!

thetope

putting white on it always works for me, but i'm not sure if it still works if the stain has dried in

VickyA_2

My OH has poured white wine on two MASSIVE red wine stains and got it out both times, but he did use a whole bottle of white wine (cheapest possible) each time. Leave to soak for as long as possible - 24hrs was the optimum level!

Any surprise that I'm marrying him?

Serenity

Hi,
I have no idea if this is the appropriate place to post this but I've searched the forum and google and found nothing helpful.
I spilt a whole glass of red wine on my carpet last night :eek: I was actually trying to stop my cat knocking it over but did it myself in the process.
Anyway I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of any thread dealing with this or has any tips themselves? Its a green carpet, would stain remover be alright to use I'm useless at this stuff - spent 30 mins scrubbing it last night and thought I'd got it but theres a huge stain this morning!
Thanks in advance for any help

Serenity

comping_cat

I think now its an old stain, the best thing is a glycerine solution (50/50 water and glycerine) cover the stain and leave for about an hour. Sponge off with clear water and blot well.

Bargain_Rzl

In future (cos it WILL happen again ) as soon as you've spilt it, cover the spillage in salt. Leave for a while and hoover up. I used to have a green carpet too, and it remained green even after several such accidents!

MrsTinks

Where do you get glycerine? I have a couple of old stains on my carpet that I'm going to attack with a carpet cleaner if I can't get them off any other way
Not red wine but.... Strawberry daquirie (or however you spell that)... have nice pink stain that so far NOTHING has managed to shift *sigh* If the carpet cleaner fails then it'll be a contents insurance job I'm afraid. I'd just prefer to clean it myself if at all possible as I have only just got the house the way I want it and having people in and out changing carpets is just going to drive me nuts

kenshaz

put some white wine on it ,it will dilute the rinse away

comping_cat

tine wrote:

Where do you get glycerine? I have a couple of old stains on my carpet that I'm going to attack with a carpet cleaner if I can't get them off any other way
Not red wine but.... Strawberry daquirie (or however you spell that)... have nice pink stain that so far NOTHING has managed to shift *sigh* If the carpet cleaner fails then it'll be a contents insurance job I'm afraid. I'd just prefer to clean it myself if at all possible as I have only just got the house the way I want it and having people in and out changing carpets is just going to drive me nuts

Ive bought glycerine in Tescos, in with the baking products.

Serenity

Thanks for all the help, i'll try the white wine first as I just went to the shop to look for glycerine but they didnt have any. If I dont get rid of it I'll look more thoroughly for the glycerine though And I'll do the salt next time it happens as I remember my gran using that with wine on a white carpet and it really worked!