OT sort of.... Cleaning RED wine carpet stain

Look in Google for UC Davis paper from Prof. Andrew Waterhouse (also reported in lay press). The prof and a high school student studied stains on several fabrics using different chemicals.

A 1:1 mixture of hydrogen peroxide and clear laundry detergent seemed to do best overall. I have used this method on shirts and it generally does ok.

A commercial product, Eradosol, did ok too.

I have heard about the salt trick, but the one and only time I tried it, it did not work (then again, it was on silk, which is tough to get stains out of).

I would try the hydrogen peroxide - laundry detergent on an out of sight section of the carpet (e.g., on corner of closet floor) to make sure it does not screw up the fabric. If it doesn't, then do a little bit of the problem area and see how it does.

You may want to even purposefully put a couple of drops of the same wine on the out of sight test area to see if it works, before trying it on the big spill.

On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 22:50:03 GMT, "PattyC"

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