How to clean the carpet from plasticine?

When there is a child at home, the question of how to clean the palas from plasticine can get very acute, because children like to make a mess. And then one day you can go into the room and see the traces of your child's creativity on your favorite family carpet. What to do? How to remove it and not spoil the coating itself? You, for sure, will be puzzled by the problem, after all, after every nonsense to buy a new coating - not an option, and walking on the sticky clumps of sticky mass with dirt is not at all pleasant. Now we will try to give you a suitable advice, how to remove all this "disgrace", or the result of the flight of creative imagination of your precious child.

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Get rid of plasticine with cold or heat

To eliminate our trouble, you do not need to immediately resort to using a brush or vacuum cleaner, and try to wipe it off. Believe me, you will only make it worse. But there is a way out! And this way out is physics. Namely, the physical properties of plasticine.

This is the case, the composition of plasticine includes substances such as:

• clay and wax or rubber;
• polyethylene;
• polyvinyl chloride.

Important! This, in turn, makes the material properties similar to the resin: at low temperatures it becomes brittle, and at high temperatures it melts.

These properties will help us in getting rid of the ill-fated spot.

Cold

To do this and clean the carpet from plasticine:

1. It will be necessary to simply take ice from the freezer, place it in a clean cellophane bag.
2. This package is put directly on the spot for a few minutes.
3. When the clay on the surface ceases to be sticky, you can easily remove it with a knife, an unnecessary plastic card or a vacuum cleaner.

Important! If you use a vacuum cleaner in this case, then after you have removed the stain, you should clean the dust bag of your equipment as soon as possible. There is a chance that the clay will heat up and score the entire filter.

Unfortunately, this method does not help in the fight against the so-called "clever plasticine".If he got on the carpet, then you should turn to a dry cleaner, where you will be happy to help.

Heat

But how can heat help us? Elementary!

The instruction how to clear a carpet from plasticine will be:

1. First you need to remove everything you can with your own handles.
2. Then put a piece of paper on the stain, iron it with a small iron. A warm air flow from the hair dryer is also suitable.
3. The remains of plasticine just stick to our sheet.
4. Change the sheet as it gets dirty.
5. We finish this action by simply walking on the carpet with a damp napkin.

Important! Be careful, if your carpet is made of synthetics, then you need to carefully approach the heated moment, because together with the plasticine, you can also melt some of your carpet.

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Alcohol method

In the fight against plasticine on the floor, alcohol can help us, which can be an alternative to purified gasoline or acetone.

Important! At such cleaning it is necessary to remove children from a room, after all all these means have a sharp specific smell which to children will be harmful. Cleaning should be done with an open window or window, if it's warm outside.

So, cleaning will be simple:

1. It is necessary to pour a little alcohol or what we replace it with plasticine, which will dissolve it.
2. Then remove with a knife or an unnecessary card what we get.

Important! Such cleaning has its drawbacks:

• The smell can be absorbed for a long time in the surface to be cleaned;
• Acetone can remove the color of your carpet together with dirt, so be extremely careful.

In connection with such drawbacks, we advise you to test the reaction of the carpet with this reagent on a site that is invisible to the eye and is not used.

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"wedge-wedge" method

We need a plasticine ball. We will collect plasticine from the carpet. But you should not rub it in any way - it will not do much good, on the contrary - it will make a plasticine stain on the carpet even more.

To remove clay from the carpet, you must apply the ball to the clay on the palas and "pull" the arm up.

Important! This method has its own nuances, for example: plasticine, which you use as a ball, should not be soft, otherwise - the effect will be negative.

Of course, there is an alternative. Instead of a plasticine ball, you can use a simple household adhesive tape, which will reduce the likelihood of even more pollution.

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Remove the spot

As the dye enters the composition of the clay, after you have removed the problem itself, we have a fat stain. Solve this problem in such ways:

• Remove this stain is possible with the help of an ordinary soap solution made from household soap and water. Consistency should be thick and warm. Wet a rag in the solution, and wipe the soiled area until we reach the surface cleanliness.
• You can also use chemical solutions, which are designed specifically for cleaning carpets.
• The usual dishwashing detergent can still help, after which it is worth simply wiping the place where the stain was. These concentrates are designed specifically for the dissolution of fat, so they give an excellent result.

The list of ways and means of carpet cleaning from plasticine is not exhausted. Everything is limited only by your imagination and experience. Hopefully, given the simplest techniques you've had is enough to restore the beauty of your flooring.