Does anyone know how ro get melted wax out of a carpet?

[tk2kewl]

The tenant must have dropped a candle and I am hoping to figure out how to clean the carpet before I start showing the apartment. :shrug:

[Scout]

1. try this

if you have a regular clothing iron, plug it in and heat it up ... get a brown paper bag and put it over the wax spot, and then run the hot iron over the bag above the spot ... pick up the bag and put it down again with a clean space over the wax spot and iron. repeat as necessary.

good luck!

[tk2kewl]

2. I will, thanks!

Seems like you are right on. I googled this up...

http://www.ehow.com/how_2587_remove-wax-carpet.html

[hfojvt]

3. we do thesame thing at work, only with damp towels

It seems to work, but often the wax is there the next day, so you have to do it two or three days in a row. I am not sure if a paper towel worked any better.

[UTUSN]

4. Not being flip here. (I don't like asking a sincere question in a thread and getting flip posts.)

But carpets are a pet peeve of mine. I completely ditched every bit of carpet and put in ceramic tile throughout. (It's a small house.) Carpet is dirty, smelly, difficult to keep clean, lots of effort you can do without or expend elsewhere. If it's COLD, wear flip flops.

Feel free to disregard this post.

[KT2000]

7. Carpets are just shoe cleaners

They are one of the reasons pollutants are higher inside the home than outside.
Each tuft of carpet provides 360 degrees of surface area for stuff, including toxic chemicls, to sitck to. Pesticides and herbicides usually require moisture and sunshine to degrade, so they don't inside.
Then we put babies on the carpet to crawl around and put their fingers in their mouth. Babies don't even have the necessary systems yet to get rid of the stuff!

[NV Whino]

5. If there's a big chunk of wax

start with ice and break off the big stuff.
Then go with the hot iron. Be careful, though, if the carpet is nylon, it will melt the carpet. (Don't even ask me how I know this.) :rofl:

[flvegan]

6. Sorry, dude. We put down a tarp and everything.

She's a little freaky, likes the "candlewax on the nipples" thing. Hope you like the spackle work over the holes we had to make for "the swing".

Does this mean we're not getting our deposit back?