Getting chocolate out of carpet

May 28, 2016 4 Replies

Someone, probably me :-( has dropped a piece of chocolate onto a pile carpet. The chocolate has melted in the sun and is now a dark lump of chocolate-carpet composite. The carpet is synthetic, but beyond that I don't know. My thinking is that mere detergent and water won't be sufficient, as chocolate is fairly high-fat. Other solvents available are white spirit/turps sub, methyated spirit, possibly acetone if there's any left, petrol. I don't want to dissolve the carpet and make matters worse!



Any suggestions as to how to get it out before I go at it.


Excellent. Plenty to try there. Thanks.

Freeze it with a CO2 fire extinguisher, then while it is solid, bash it into fragmants and hoover them up. Once the bulk of the material has been removed use neat 1001 carpet cleaner.

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