I am an apartment manager, a tenant moved out and left a glob of wax on a fairly new carpet. I called my carpet cleaner and he let out a grunt and told me how I would never get the wax out. Then I called the carpet installation company to see if they knew a trick but I heard more of the same from them. I then went on RU-vid and found this video. I cut 2 paper bags into strips and tried this method out, In about 20 minutes I had the carpet looking like new again. Absolutely amazing. Thank you David Nance.
You're a life saver thank you so much! Greatest part is you actually got straight to the point and didn't edit the whole process out after showing 5secs to a instantly clean carpet 👍👏
This worked for me, on wax that I spilled about 7 years ago. White wax on dark green carpet. I used a kitchen towel instead of paper. Worked the first time, and worked very well. Thank you.
This absolutely works on clothing as well. I used some shipping paper and the hot iron over the soy blend wax on my shirt and removed all the wax. All that was left was a fragrance oil stain. I poured some non chlorine stain remover on it and let it sit for about 30 minutes, then washed the shirt with some towels and detergent. I saved one of my most comfortable t shirts......it works! Thank you for sharing this video!
WARNING: this worked very well on the regular carpet, the cheap one but once I tried on my designer area rug it burned. So be aware it might not work with all carpets. Thank you for the tip, somehow it helped.
Oh my goodness... I had a scented wax fall onto my brand new carpet 5yrs ago.. just pulled the buffet over to hide ... we selling our house and I totally forgot about the wax spot. Thanks to your video it is GONE. Thank You for the video very very helpful. I used grocery bags had to cut up several but it still did the job
This worked amazingly well! I spilled wax on my big speaker grill and used a lint free towel and iron. Thank you so very much for this most helpful video!
You've just saved me a couple of hundred pounds for a living room rug clean, thank you so much :D No idea why this has been thumbed down. I will try this evening with kitchen towel
Thanks for the wonderful video! I’d add set the iron on a synthetic material setting, like nylon first then move up to wool if nylon setting doesn’t cut it. I cut a few paper bags into pieces and used kept moving my iron and paper bag as the bag absorbed the wax. What a lifesaver!
It worked, but don't let the hot iron touch your polyester carpet though: it melts. Was ok through the paper though, but still be wary. I used paper towels. In the scenario that the carpet does get melted, I used a wire brush to gently remove the melted top layer. Seems ok. 👍
Awesome thank you! Although I wouldn’t recommend pouring wax on home carpet solely for purpose of demonstration.... well or for ANY intentional reason for that matter lol as it still almost always leaves behind a very light stain, especially red wax as I had on my very light almost white berber carpet laid only 2 weeks ago argh..... Having said that I’m glad you did & made/posted this video as you just saved my a** hahaha. I honestly thought I was gonna have to replace what I just did but it looks almost as good as new and saved me a couple grand no doubt so thank you very much truly appreciate it!
Well David Nanc, THANK YOU! I just accidentally spilled wax on my carpet. Came to youtube, saw your vid....hit the comment section, tried it and BOOM...IT WORKS!!!!
Beware Beware. Do not try this method on a couch. The fabric is not as heavy duty. It might get damaged. This method did work very well on the carpet though.
I appreciate this video. I truly do. I just wanted to say that it didn't work on my carpet. I have one of those indoor/outdoor carpets so it was like melting through the paperbag. But I tried wetting an old cloth and used the iron over it. That helped. My cloth was not long enough to soak it all up. Maybe I can try an old burp cloth and wet that. But again this video was a great help. Thanks 😊
For the heat we started on high testing a corner, but it melted the carpet, so we used the synthetic setting and it worked just fine. We had such a big spill, that we ran out of Amazon packing paper and bought a roll of 9" wide masking paper from the paint department at home depot for $3.00. Our spot was massive, so it took two of us about an hour and a half, but it worked better than we ever imagined. Thank you for this video.
I used the iron on high with an old white t-shirt. Ripped it in half and wrapped it around the iron. I then kept moving the iron around the damaged area and kept moving the shirt around the iron for clean spots as the red from the wax stained the shirt. It took me about an hour for a splatter spill in about 2 sq ft area. Your video helped. Thanks. -*Clean up: I used water and dish washing soap light mix. Put on clean towel and damped the area. Then put my tshirt iron combo on spots that still looked a little red. Everything came out great. ☺️
Goot trick. I just knocked hot wax off the dresser all over my foot, wall, and carpet. I used a hot hair drier and toilet paper and worked pretty dang well (after scraping what i could up)
I was absolutely skeptical at first, but it works, it just works. As I knelt there ironing the floor I was just gob smacked by the fact it actually was working
That's awesome As I'm watching this I'm thinking along the lines of a heating thing and a picking up tool... Hear me out... ur using an iron to HEAT up the wax in result it melts and turns into liquid substance again and the PICKING UP TOOL is the paper collecting wax from carpet... I nvr tried this but do you think a blow dryer as heating source and say a shop vac as pick up tool do the trick??? Maybe it will be more sufficient as well as faster... just a thot... thank God I didnt spill wax it's a fricken nightmare to clean up js
