Getting paint off carpet

Revert to plan A.

Dump the carpet.

Mary

Is it gloss paint or emulsion. If the latter, you may be able to soften it with a steam cleaner and then suck it out with a strong vacuum. If it's gloss, you'll have to use something like Polystrippa on it - and hope that it doesn't rot the fibres!

"Mary Fisher" wrote in news:40819a29$0$8572$ snipped-for-privacy@master.news.zetnet.net:

Partner suggested:

"cut out the paint splodged areas and fill in with a different carpet offcut - artistically of course"

Hmm - I don't hold out much hope for you. Rather, for your carpet.

There is always plan D.

Add green and blue splodges, and call it art.

Well DON'T do what one of our foreign students did. He'd borrowed an iron, put it on the carpet and burnt a patch, so to 'cover up' cut an iron shape from under the bed and stuck it down - trouble was he'd not allowed for orientation of the weave so it shouted out 'look at me' Instead of having a claim on the insurance for a new carpet we had to buy two rugs to cover the iron shapes ! He should have known all about carpets being Turkish ! Funny he left in such a hurry

Andrew Mawson

I believe that you have no other option than to cover your carpet in a 4" layer of concrete. You know its true!

Arthur.

Get Yellow Pages out, find local carpet cleaning Prochem agent and go buy some A277 Solvex (download pdf MSDS sheet and read it first!)

And hope the carpet isn't acrylic, or the stripper will melt it. Emulsion sticks like crazy to acrylic, but not so well to wool. It is possible to trim individual fibres with a razor blade on a deepish pile carpet but you'll be on your hands and knees for hours.

Hi,

Normal soap is quite an effective paint stripper given time.

A steamer would help soften the paint too.

cheers, Pete.

already suggested using, but if the chemicals don't melt the carpet then they sound an easier option :)

Thanks for the responses.