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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 526060" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p>Mix 40 mule team borax and bleach ---mix a paste in a bucket with hot water. (not scalding) and apply to spot. Let set overnight or most of an hour or better - and then come back and dab up with WET towel - DO NOT SCRUB - when you scrub a carpet it breaks the fibers of a carpet - You want to just keep adding damp towels and stepping on the spot with all your body weight.....then remove - rinse the towel - and reapply a clean wet towel - stand on it - walk on it a little - rinse out the towel and repeat. What you are DOING???? Is taking out the dirt and stain a little at a time. The stain is probably into the padding AND dispersed under the padding as well - When you put the towel down and use your weight to stand on the towel - it puts pressure on the pad for some of the underlying stain to COME UP in the towel - with the water. </p><p></p><p>Merry maids sent me to carpet cleaning school - and I promise we didn't do it this way - we had a dry cleaning machine - but the towel and stain part is right. THIS is why you can't get pee smell out of a carpet. The pee goes into the carpet - and pad, and under the pad -and EVENTUALLY dries and urine crystalizes after it's dry. Then when it gets wet? It reannimates - literally - and it's like the urination happens all over again. Then recrystalizes. Similar to a stain - the more water you add? The more water gets into the pad and under the pad This is why you use damp towels and repeat the process. Or so I was told. </p><p></p><p>But the borax will eventually DRY - and you can vacuum it out - and the bleach will bleach the spot - but I use COLORSAFE bleach and borax unless the carpet is just shot and stinks - then I'd probably pull it away fromthe wall - turn it over......scrub the top and the bottom of the carpet - set a fan on the under neath , check the pad or cut it out and replace the pad. - Spray with lysol......let it set and dry for about four days - then retack my carpet OR if it's really really a bad spot? Remove a piece from the closet - and patch that spot...and use the dirty spot you took out - (and take it outside and hose it off and use whatever cleaner on it and let it dry outside for a few days - and then have it replaced in the spot in my closet. I've had that done in a few rentals.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 526060, member: 4964"] Mix 40 mule team borax and bleach ---mix a paste in a bucket with hot water. (not scalding) and apply to spot. Let set overnight or most of an hour or better - and then come back and dab up with WET towel - DO NOT SCRUB - when you scrub a carpet it breaks the fibers of a carpet - You want to just keep adding damp towels and stepping on the spot with all your body weight.....then remove - rinse the towel - and reapply a clean wet towel - stand on it - walk on it a little - rinse out the towel and repeat. What you are DOING???? Is taking out the dirt and stain a little at a time. The stain is probably into the padding AND dispersed under the padding as well - When you put the towel down and use your weight to stand on the towel - it puts pressure on the pad for some of the underlying stain to COME UP in the towel - with the water. Merry maids sent me to carpet cleaning school - and I promise we didn't do it this way - we had a dry cleaning machine - but the towel and stain part is right. THIS is why you can't get pee smell out of a carpet. The pee goes into the carpet - and pad, and under the pad -and EVENTUALLY dries and urine crystalizes after it's dry. Then when it gets wet? It reannimates - literally - and it's like the urination happens all over again. Then recrystalizes. Similar to a stain - the more water you add? The more water gets into the pad and under the pad This is why you use damp towels and repeat the process. Or so I was told. But the borax will eventually DRY - and you can vacuum it out - and the bleach will bleach the spot - but I use COLORSAFE bleach and borax unless the carpet is just shot and stinks - then I'd probably pull it away fromthe wall - turn it over......scrub the top and the bottom of the carpet - set a fan on the under neath , check the pad or cut it out and replace the pad. - Spray with lysol......let it set and dry for about four days - then retack my carpet OR if it's really really a bad spot? Remove a piece from the closet - and patch that spot...and use the dirty spot you took out - (and take it outside and hose it off and use whatever cleaner on it and let it dry outside for a few days - and then have it replaced in the spot in my closet. I've had that done in a few rentals. [/QUOTE]
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