remove oil from carpet

[reginald 04]

I recently dropped a load of cooking oil on the carpet i'd be very gratefull if anyone knew how to remove it please.

[Catso]

Professional steam cleaning?

[oldwoman]

Look at the WD 40 website

[Catso]

I did think about suggesting 'thinning it' but then you'd just have a much bigger stain (you need a lot of WD40, as well!).

Reg, oldwoman is correct in that WD40 would thin the cooking oil and 'unstick it' from the carpet but you'd still need a way of sucking the resultant gunk out of the carpet. Otherwise, the thinner would just evaporate again, and leave your oil behind.

Possibly the best way would be a combination: thin it first, with WD40 (or possibly paraffin) and immediately steam clean it, whilst it was still thin.

Another approach to fat/oil (on suede, anyway) is to rub it with powdered chalk.

[oldwoman]

On the site there is a product called spot shot sorry if I misled

[whiskeysheri]

I think eucalyptus is supposed to work on oil stains. :o)

[Snowy Owl]

Fuller`s Earth Powder may be a possibility to absorb the oil. It was originally used to take the lanolin out of sheeps wool, so you get the idea of how it might work. Getting hold of it in powder form may prove a problem unless you go to http://www.fishingwithstyle.co.uk/ where it is easily available. It all depends on how much you`ve dropped and how desperate you are to get rid of it!

[Catso]

You can buy this as cat litter (make sure you get the right sort of litter, though!) for about �5 for a large bag. It's little granules though, not powder. It'll need a bit of crumbling down, probably just walking it in would suffice.

[mimififi]

I can confirm the eucaplytus oil: I had a black oil stain on my white carpet left from a footpump that we were using to blow up and inflatable dinghy (that's another story....) and after the initial panic and shouting, my mother in law who happened to be there suggested eucalytpus and we just put some on a clean cloth and rubbed the stain away which vanished in front of our very eyes...most peculiar. However, I'm not sure how big your stain is and whether it would be effected on a large patch.

Bicarbonate of soda also removes grease and oil so you could try this: 1 soak up as much as you can with kitchen paper. Then scrub with a scrubbing brush with very hot water and a lot of bicarbonate of soad in the water, or just pour the bicarb straight onto the carpet and scrub with a little very hot water. |Then get some plain hot water and some clean terry cloth and just keeps rinsing and rinsing and rinsing and ringing until the carpet is clean. This is how I clean my carpets all the time.

good luck

[GINGER1578]

my grandma would probably know, but i have done the same thing about 6 months ago. i hired a proper indistrial carpet cleaner, i think from a safeway store and it worked fine, took a good hour and a bit of patience but honelstly it worked well.have a look for shampoo carpet cleaners, i think b&q places like that do them and they are not that expensive!!!

[polar_bear]

Halfords thing called GUNK