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Melted candle wax on my carpet!

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evedawn | 13:15 Sat 04th Oct 2008 | Home & Garden
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Have a BIG blob of wax that fell on my carpet and also on a rough brick wall.

IT's now hardened and if i try "pick" it out of the carpet bit of the carpet threads come off with it...

Any ideas?

I thought of reheating the wax with an iron and brown paper but worry this'll "spread" it further intot he carpet fibres.
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iron and brown paper sounds good


what about trying a hair dryer ?

take care not to burn the carpet tho


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Know it sounds drastic, but the brown paper worked for me. I managed to drop a huge red candle on a pale green carpet. It takes a bit of doing, make sure you have a lot of brown paper, and as soon as the heat has drawn the wax up onto the paper, use a fresh bit .Good luck !!!!
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thanks both of you - the brown paper / iron has worked REALLY well. Not totally gone but...hardly noticable now!

the iron won't work on the rough brick wall next to the carpet but will try the hairdryer / brown paper like legendis suggested.

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