Remove Gum from Carpet
You took utmost care, countless hours, and sleepless nights decorating and keeping your home clean and tidy. If there are kids or teens in your home, you've given them instructions as well as to how much cleanliness means to you. And despite all the warnings, kids will behave like kids and eventually something is bound to happen, like dirty shoe prints, toppled glass of orange or cranberry juice, or worse, a chewing gum stuck to your carpet. So is that what's happened to you? Someone was not supposed to eat gum in the house, but did and now has it stuck on your carpet? Wow, and now the job to remove gum from carpet has fallen on your shoulders.
Well, don't worry. I know that it seems like a dirty job, which it is, and you want to get done with it as soon as possible. Trust me, if it were me, I'd be thinking about the same. Luckily, removing stains from carpet is possible; and the earlier we get to the mess, the better it is for everyone, including you. So, to sum it up, read the article, get the stuff mentioned in each techniques, and get your carpet back to normal.
Removing Gum in Few Easy Steps
Removing chewing gum from carpet is a sticky situation, no pun intended. And cleaning it as soon as possible is the best way to save your carpet. I'll be honest with you, it's not a fun job. But if you want your living room or bedroom carpet to get as good as new, then let's get to the mess right away.
Step 1
First and foremost, you need to use some ice cubes. It is the best way to remove gum from carpet. Get some ice cubes in Ziploc bag and keep it over the carpet. You need to keep that bag on top of the gum till it freezes.
Step 2
Next, you will remove the Ziploc bag and use a butter knife to scrape the frozen piece of gum. Try to remove as much gum as you possibly can. Even after scraping the gum off, there may be some fibers on the carpet that still have remnants of the gum.
Step 3
To remove those remnants, get a store bought gum removal solution. Use a paint brush with foam bristles and apply the solution directly over the gum. You will slowly and gently try to brush it off the carpet. Do so for about 5 to 10 minutes (or however long the instructions on the solution ask you to). Hopefully the solution can dissolve the stubborn chewing on your carpet.
Step 4
Now comes the dirty work to remove gum from carpet. Either use skewers or your fingers to remove the loose gum remnants. If the solution didn't remove the entire gum off the carpet, I guess the next thing you will do is use skewers or your fingers. Make sure that while using the skewers, you don't cut or punch a hole through your carpet.
Step 5
For our final tip on how to remove chewing gum from carpet, using your hair dryer. Place the dryer directly over the gum and warm it. Make sure you don't overheat it or else the carpet will get stained or damaged. Once the gum is warm enough, use skewers to remove it from the carpet. Again, be very careful and gentle.
Besides your carpet, the sticky gum has a habit of getting stuck at other places as well such as your shoes, clothes, and hair. And there you have it folks, a clean (sort of) and easy way to remove gum from carpet. I hope that you don't ever have to do this again. Good luck.
