How to remove gum from carpeting?

Check out these tips on removing gum from your carpets, drapery, or furniture!

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Freezing

  • Take a plastic bag filled with ice. Take the bag and lay it over the piece of gum. Let sit for 20 minutes.
  • Once the gum has hardened, find something to scrape it from your carpet. Usually a spoon or a butter knife works well.
  • Slowly scrape away as much as possible. You may want to refreeze the gum.
  • After, grab a can of wd-40 and spray just enough to loosen up the left over gum.
  • Finally, use a tiny bit of club soda and put it on the spot.
  • This should clean your carpet back to normal!
  • Repeat process as needed.

Heating

  • For this process you will need a clean towel, an iron, and wd-40.
  • Take your towel and lay it over the spot where the gum has settled.
  • Move your heated iron back and forth across the towel – not so much that it melts the gum and mend it into the carpet fibers.
  • After, pull your towel up a little bit and see if the gum has mended to the towel fibers. Peel slowly away.
  • Repeat process a couple times with different towels.
  • Use wd-40 and spray a little bit on the remaining residue.
  • Use a spoon to scrape away any remaining residue.
  • Pour a little club soda down and dab up as much as possible.

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