There's a small black splodge of old black chain oil on my carpet, not sure if it's come off a bike or my shoe, but I need to clean it off, please? 
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How do you get dirty old chain oil off the carpet?
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Posted 6 months ago #
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clean oil, something like olive oil or veg oil.
then hot soapy water.Posted 6 months ago # -
wd40, serious it works, then rucks of spoapy hot water
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I have lots to get off my carpet if I want any deposit back!
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Cheers chaps
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It's like a yellow pages ad this. "It's just possible you could save my life"
One of WD40's main ingredients is stoddart solvent- basically, dry cleaning fluid. Course it also contains a load of light oil but you can sometimes exchange a black horrible oil stain for a light one.
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Buy a rug?
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Unfortunately I've got neither WD40 nor kitchen oil (just finished the ev olive oil on a salad).
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Buy a rug?
Top step of me very steep stairs, I predict a visit to A&E.Posted 6 months ago # -
I've got some dry cleaning fluid, could I use that then??
Posted 6 months ago # -
A loved ones favourite garment will attract any oil on the carpet if briefly rubbed across it
Posted 6 months ago # -
Chain degreaser then soak up with kitchen towel...
Posted 6 months ago # -
white spirit. the end. at least, in this flat...
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white spirit. the end. at least, in this flat...
What? the end of the carpet or the black oily mark?Posted 6 months ago # -
A carpet mousse foam spray from pound shop always does it for me.
Much harder to remove coffee or red wine.
You can buy a very decent refurbished VAX cleaner vac for less than 100 notes on fleabay.
Posted 6 months ago # -
Have something delivered or invite some mormons around then accuse them of depositing oil on your carpet.
Posted 6 months ago # -
isn't there something about using an absorbent material and an iron or is that for something else? Failing that, you could use a credit card.
Posted 6 months ago # -
fairy liquid has always worked for me. Even when I decided to take the little grub screw out of a romic shock that allowed blue oil to spert out of it as it it was an ahem.. you can imagine
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white spirit. the end. at least, in this flat...
What? the end of the carpet or the black oily mark?
no! the carpet is still "beige with a pink hue" according to my better half.
Posted 6 months ago # -
Use red wine
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Motorbike brake and chain cleaning stuff. Sprays on nicely.
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I figured out how to do this when I was a kid - saved my neck many a time. Jab the straw from a can of WD40 into the pile, and pack some bog paper around the top. Squirt, and the WD40 goes into the carpet, dissolves the oil and the tissue paper soaks it up. Works a treat - you can then use soapy water or something simple to get rid of the WD40.
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Baby wipes - Seriously they remove everything.
GT85 is also a good substitute for WD40
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