Cupcake red/purple frosting on BRAND NEW Fairbanks carpet tragedy :-(…. Holiday colors now gone & festivity’s returned with some reducing bleach, patience and steam! :-) |

How could this be a tragedy!?! Yummy! Colors are difficult to remove without damage to the existing fiber, but we love a challenge.

If you have to be stuck in a conference room, what a great way to suffer…. SUPER nice coffee maker just out of sight as well…

Using steam to accelerate the reducing agents used to remove the dyes — A steamer, absorbent cotton/cotton blend and microfiber pads with steam/reducing agents to remove dyes from carpet

The beginning process of adding reducing agents to dyes in the carpet and warming up the steamer to help ‘open’ the dye sites

What dye transfer looks like when removing it from carpet — Dye transfer from carpet to a cotton blend pad using a reducing agent, often we also will have to use oxidizing agents as well on certain natural & synthetic dyes to get the best results.

Sample of the slow transfer process to remove foreign dyes from the carpet without removing carpet color… reducing agents, gentle agitation, steam, blot, repeat, repeat, repeat…. try to keep your mind off the cupcakes still on the table behind you….

The public doesn’t even yet have access to this very very nice medical facility… talk about a cupcake ‘bummer’ :-).