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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: glen parva on November 14, 2012, 07:01:59 pm

Title: wax on carpet
Post by: glen parva on November 14, 2012, 07:01:59 pm

whats the best way to clean  it up
its short pile carpet about 4in wide

Title: Re: wax on carpet
Post by: Neil Williams on November 14, 2012, 07:48:57 pm

Piece of absorbant cloth over wax
Tip of hot steam iron onto cloth
Watch for first signs of wax being transfered
Removed iron (otherwise you'll burn / melt carpet)
New area of cloth and do again
Note: if the wax has dyes in it that will have to be dealt with after removal of wax

Title: Re: wax on carpet
Post by: Susan Dean (1stclean) on November 14, 2012, 08:11:42 pm

little bit of orange gel the just wash it out with a hand tool easy easy easy

Title: Re: wax on carpet
Post by: Paul W Jones on November 14, 2012, 08:13:23 pm

Citrus Gel has worked well for me.

Title: Re: wax on carpet
Post by: Nick Attwood on November 14, 2012, 08:16:44 pm

POG, Liqua Gel or similar, break the surface with gum getter or similar, and rinse with hot water. as Susan said easy, easy, easy.

Title: Re: wax on carpet
Post by: Phil @ Extreme Clean on November 14, 2012, 09:35:51 pm

i use a steamer for this just remelt the wax and mop up allthough you might find the wax has burnt the carpet.

Title: Re: wax on carpet
Post by: Carpet2Clean on November 14, 2012, 09:37:43 pm

Craftex Orange gel then rinse out like Susan said

Title: Re: wax on carpet
Post by: Jim_77 on November 14, 2012, 10:34:33 pm

If you can get your water temperature up high enough, just very hot water out of a hand tool will get 99% of it out.  If it's in a big clump, break it up first with a flat bladed screwdriver NOT stanley knife ;D

The solvent approach is best used after you've got as much out with the hot rinse, what's the point of using half a bottle of expensive solvent when water can do most of it ;)

Title: Re: wax on carpet
Post by: wynne jones on November 14, 2012, 11:12:07 pm

I have a wallpaper steamer mainly for chewing gum. I will soften the wax first with that, scrape off what I can, then get the rest up with gel or a towel with white spirit on it. Then prespray the area and extract.

Title: Re: wax on carpet
Post by: Adrian Marsh on November 15, 2012, 12:50:30 am

Brown paper torn into strips. Warm (not hot) iron. Place one end of paper strip on the wax and put iron on the paper. As the wax melts draw the paper out from under the iron thus removing the melted wax away from the capret. Any left over residue can be removed using the products mentioned above.

Title: Re: wax on carpet
Post by: Mike Halliday on November 15, 2012, 06:55:10 am

Depending on carpet type then a boiling kettle of water poured slowly then intermittently vac with your hand tool.

But is it normal white wax or coloured ? I would be carefull not to set the coloured dye so would keep away from heat on coloured wax

Title: Re: wax on carpet
Post by: Mike_Roper on November 15, 2012, 08:41:25 am

Also if carpet is polyprop it has a low melting point so use heat with care or you will melt or distort the pile.
Mike

Title: Re: wax on carpet
Post by: Andy Hogarth on November 15, 2012, 05:13:07 pm

Jk does a chewing gum perforator, great little tool for the spotting kit, brilliant for breaking up large clumps of wax

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