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I got some turmeric powder on carpet. How do I get it off? Tried some dish soap and a random enzyme based pet stain remover and I don’t think it did anything.
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Looks like turmeric is the king of impossible stains 😬 We have a guy coming out to try a professional thing, and after that I’m going to try, in order: 1. Molly’s suds 2. Resolve 3. Oil to dissolve 4. Bleach This is a rental, so if I can’t get it out, I guess I pay.
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Stain removal is unfortunately non-ergodic so order of things you try should ideally be in order of increasing effectiveness so failed methods don’t make it worse. Somehow this shit really stresses me out. It’s like a car accident in stress terms.
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California law apparently treats rental carpets as having a 10-year life and non-normal-wear damage = you can be charged fir pro-rated residual life. Anyone have experience with what landlords charge fir carpet damage? Only for oath replacement or whole room?
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Turmeric is demon stain. Trying experiments on a rag. Baking soda just turns it orange. Oxiclean turns it red. Will try alcohol too. I’m not hopeful.
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You want to keep oxidizing it. The oxiclean is hydrogen perixide (mostly), which oxidized some of the double bonds, but not all of them. The resulting shorter conjugation shifted the color from orange to red. Counterintuitively, red is progress in your desired direction.
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Hm, perils of tweet multitasking. The red color shift actually indicates extension of the chain. Not sure what’s going on there. I’d still suggest further oxidation, but I take back my comment on red being an indicator of progress.
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Oh! Then it might’ve been the sodium bicarbonate in the oxiclean that did it. It probably tautomerizes it or something. I’d still go moar oxidizer I think.
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