Blue-tack in a carpet

[Dave]

As above, I have blue tack in a carpet. How do I remove it?

I have done a google, but all that came back is some sort of glue that is used to fix the carpet to the floor. Both blue and black.

Please. Where did I go wrong in typing into google 'removing blue tack from a carpet' ?

I'm not that clued up on the way to google things. Is there a definitive way to do it and is there a web site that explains this?

many TIA

Dave

[Jeff]

I think I would use liberal quantitys of patience

But have a look here :-

Jeff

[Jeff]

Dave wrote :-

you need to think like a machine and know what you are looking for

blutack remove - in google found this :-

turps is a solvent for blutack - then you will need something to remove the smell of the turps

Regards Jeff

[Magician]

Jeff wrote;

something to remove the smell of the turps

[Rob Morley]

Add salt to the ice to get it even colder.

[doozer]

Just the comment I was going to make :-)

This "trick" works even better if the ice is crushed first. Make sure you add loads of salt - at least a couple of heaped table spoons to a sandwich bag of crushed ice. You can get the temperature down to -10 easily with this method. I always found it worked better if the ice was dry when the salt as added so crush it up quickly and get the salt in fast.

[Dave]

Many thanks to all who have replied. I will try what you advise and see what comes of it. The carpet, by the way, is not in my home but at a school and yes, I do have a load of spare to try out the replies on :-) Fir some reason, not every post came up on my ISP.

Thanks again

Dave

[Rob Morley]

BT servers are renowned for their crapness, I believe. The standard advice was to get a free account with news.individual.net, but from the start of next month it will no longer be free - still a good service though.

[Dave]

Now I understand :-(

Dave