[julia]

Hi All
Can anyone tell me how to remove a lucozade stain from my berber carpet please.  I hired a rug doctors but it didnt remove the stain.  Is there a chemical that i can buy which will do the job.
Any help gratefully received.
Thanks
Julia

[Paul_Ashworth]

If its a berber carpet it will probably be wool and a permanent stain, You might be better contacting your insurance

[julia]

Hi
Thanks but I dont really want to claim on insurance as stain isn't hugh about a tea plate size.  It will only increase my insurance costs next year.  I will have to put up with it if nobody can recommend anything.  I thought someone would be able to recommend a cleaner that would remove the stain.  Thanks for your suggestion anyone.  julia

[Peter Dawson]

Hi Julia, you may struggle with this one. The food colourings are very strong in lucozade and irn-bru. I have tried prochem red rx but results were very marginal.
Regards
Peter
Beta Clean

[Paul_Ashworth]

Looks like your off to buy a big rug then, I was working at house about 6 months ago when next door came round they had just split Lucozade on a 80/ 20 wool carpet i tried everything and nothing would touch it

[julia]

Hi
Thanks I will try and get some prochem red rx from somewhere and give it a try, or it looks like a move round of furniture.
Thanks so much for your advice.
Julia

[daysdeepclean]

Hydramaster's Knockout's good stuff too. But I've never had any luck getting Lucozade out in the 3 or 4 jobs I've had where it has been spilt!!!!

[Mike Osbourne]

erm you could always call a professional carpet cleaner. They may be able to bleach out the stain.

And no you can't do it yourself with domestos.

[Jim_77]

Julia,

Don't waste your time or money trying to get it out yourself.

As said above, lucozade is a nasty one.  Anything based on a yellow dye colour is nigh-on impossible to get back to an acceptable standard.

I'd respectfully suggest that you're wrong about your insurance going up next year - it's not the same as having a prang in your car, contents insurance works differently (dependant on company).  Without hesitation, ring your insurance company and talk to them!!  It'll cost you an excess but no more hopefully

[gwrightson]

Just read this post, and as it is obvious that Julia id not a professional c/c I cannot believe that somebody has suggested red rx  :  Iy is not a simple case of applying rx and this may do the trick!!

Heat transfer method with iron and towel needs to be used for starters, and this only with caution .

Julia, My suggestion call a pro c/c  who can at the least improve it if not remove it although they may have to go down the bleach  reducing or sodium meta route.

geoff

[Peter Dawson]

Hi Geoff, I posted the comment about red rx. I take your point about Julia should use a pro c/c. But I thought the forum was to comment and bounce ideas off each other. I said that the food colourings in lucazade were very strong and I had tried red rx with only marginal results.

Regards
Peter
Beta Clean

[gwrightson]

Peter,

yes i see your point  , but from what julia says below  was "i,m going to go out and get some rx "

It did appear you were perhaps reccomending this to her, when infact you were just putting your veiw forward generaly  , if you get my jist.

Geoff

[Peter Dawson]

No probs Geoff.
Peter

[daysdeepclean]

I'm presuming Julia can read and the instructions are written quite clearly on the label on the bottle.

She's obviously wanting to do the job herself and not really interested in spending £40-£60 or whatever on a professional doing the job!

[julia]

Hi all

I would like to thank you all for your comments, which have been gratefully received.

I have now moved the sofa up 10 inches and put a lamp at the other end.  The carpet isnt worth getting professionally cleaned as I will be changing it in the new year, just not saved enough money yet.

Yes I can read instructions but after asking a pro carpet cleaner I have decided not to do anything but hide the mark.

Thanks to you all

[diamond]

Why is it that an enquiry from a member of the public has ended in a petty comments from know it alls.

[jasonl]

I have been a carpet cleaner for 17 years , and last week bought a bottle of red rxto treat some red wine , read the simple instructions,,,,,,

which were ,, pour on red rx , cover with damp towel , steam with iron , repeat to lift stain ,, extract with machine , did that ,cleaned 12x15 carpet 75quid.......... so so easy red wine gone,customer very happy ,, we are only carpet cleaners , very little skill needed. Red rx cost me £12.95, used about 20% 0f the bottle.

[Joe H]

Looking at the amount of time Julia has been on the forum and the number posts in that time, I would think she from another section, perhaps general cleaning and no doubt has tackled problems before and would possibly be capable of tackling RedRX after getting some advice. Its whether she had a extraction machine for flushing.

[Carpet Dawg]

Jason:

I've tried Red RX on iron-bru and lucozade. Tired it several times in fact, using a hot steam iron method thats stateed on the bottle. and not one single drop transfered to the clothe

you'd think they'd have come up with a product by now eh! lol

works great on red wine stains tho

Tony