First and foremost, George Ayoub Carpet & Rug Care is here to help. We’re not going to ask a bunch of questions about how that big blotch of merlot wound up all over your dining room carpet. We’re just going to assume the dog did it, and get to work.
Over the years, George Ayoub Carpet & Rug Care has removed hundreds of wine stains from rugs and carpets, making hundreds of customers happy. But – since we believe an informed customer is our best customer – we wanted to pass along a few tips you could follow so that that round red blob doesn’t become a permanent feature.
The most important part of treating a wine stain is to treat it as soon as possible, before the wine’s sugars soak into the carpet’s or rug’s fibers. Treat it with what? Here are the top remedies to try:
— Blot it with club soda. Quickly, grab a towel, a paper towel, a clean cloth or a napkin or a handkerchief. Douse it in club soda, and blot the stain – not rub, but blot, with an up-and-down stamping motion perpendicular to the floor. Soak up as much wine as you can; you might even get all of it, if you get to it in time and it doesn’t seep onto the lower fibers. Use cold water to keep the stain wet, reapply the club soda, and keep blotting.
We find club soda to be the most effective do-it-yourself solution for removing red wine stains from your carpets and rugs.
— Pour salt on it. Table salt helps absorb the wine in the stain, if it’s still wet. After blotting, cover the stain in a layer of salt or baking soda. After a few hours, vacuum it up, and the stain should be at least partly, if not wholly, lifted.
— Try some white vinegar. Stir a tablespoon of dishwasher detergent and a tablespoon of white vinegar (a non-white vinegar would make its own stain) into two cups of warm water. With a clean cloth, dab the mixture onto the stain. With another cloth, blot the mixture back up. Repeat dabbing and blotting a couple more times. Then, pour cold water onto the stain and soak up the remaining vinegar solution and wine.
— Call George. Get it taken care of professionally, properly and promptly by us. Our trucks are equipped with industrial-strength cleaning agents, specially formulated enzymes and high-powered steam machines which can handle any wine stain – no matter who put it there.
Thank you for doing business with George Ayoub Carpet & Rug Care, serving Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C., since 1987 with sales, service, installs, repairs, maintenance, cleaning and refurbishing of upholstery, tile, carpet (berber, loop pile, cut pile, shag, frieze and others), rugs (Oriental rugs, Persian rugs, Turkish rugs, Chinese rugs, American rugs and more) and hardwood flooring solutions.
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