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Home Hints/How Do I...? - thebroadroom.net: Cleaning candle wax off a carpet
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Cleaning candle wax off a carpet
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
Saturday, December 31, 2005
at 12:29 PM (Pacific)
Candle Wax In The Carpet
There are some instructions on using an ice pack to get out the big chunks if you have them.
This actually does work...you get out your iron and start out with a "warm" setting. You get out a small stack of paper towels.
You lay a paper towel flat over the wax and use the iron to "iron" the paper towel over it. The trick is to start out with a low iron setting. You can increase the heat cautiously if needed (i.e. you don't want to melt your carpet!).
Once each towel has started to turn translucent by absorbing the melted wax, you can replace it with a fresh towel. Keep doing this (it's a faster process than it sounds) until the wax is gone.
 
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