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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People who think living with it is an option clearly haven’t rented in a while
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Likely moving out of this place in a few months
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That’s it. Blocking anyone who makes lazy “baking soda and vinegar” suggestions or the “stain the rest of the carpet” jokes 🤬
I have suffered what will likely be lifelong trauma security-deposit + more here. Enough to make me consider home ownership. Stain sufferers unite!
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So much schadenfreude in the world. Bastards.
Making a list of names in my little black book for revenge. One day, you’ll be the one with the turmeric stain and I’ll be the one laughing AND NOT SHARING MY STAIN-FIGHTING SECRETS. 💀💀
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Ok pro guy didn’t really know what he was doing. He tried using pros choice red which you use along with a wet towel and hot iron. Reversed the slight reddening due to previous use of baking soda but otherwise did nothing. Back to square 1 proschoice.com/phone/red-1.ht
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This is Ph 7 ammonium hydroxide plus some other stuff.
From a video I watched this is the approach for artificial color not plant based. Video used reducing bleach.
He only charged for gas to come out since he couldn’t get it out.
We’re now on my own. Molly’s suds next.
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Now in the Walter White zone of suggestions. Breaking Bad Yellow. Toluene sounds a few nitros away from TNT 😂 t.co/gwmW6fYfFV
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This resource doesn’t list turmeric in the index and also says plant based may be impossible
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Still at it? This is my go-to for hard to remove stains: yates.cce.cornell.edu/resources/stai (PDF)
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Waiting for Molly’s sports suds to be delivered tomorrow, a glycerin based detergent someone said worked on turmeric. Stay tuned. After that, straight glycerin and detergent. Then H202+UV. Then alcohol. This saga of doom will unfold over the next week or so.
Stay tuned.
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For all who were waiting for an update on this: WE GOT THE STAIN OUT!!!
A professional organic stain remover (H202 based) + UV light. Details and pictures coming soon.
Chemistry: 1, Nature: 0.
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Before treatment, after 1 treatment, after 2. The book, shown for scale, is about 3”x4”
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Treat with gel, suck up with wet vac, treat with 2-liquid mix (it’s sold in combined because it’s explosive when mixed), UV lamp for a few hours.
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It’s basically accelerated oxidation. Not sure what ingredients are but I think H202. Smell of ammonia when combined. Something limits the bleaching. You can use an iron over a west towel instead of UV but apparently that risks bleaching effect.
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The lamp is supposed to come with long UV black light for stain detection, and a slightly different spectrum UV tube for reaction acceleration, plus regular tubes for inspection illumination but they shipped without the second kind.
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But regular fluorescent turned out to be enough. I guess they have some UV content. The real UV tubes are on their way. We’ll try them on a tougher test stain on a towel or something.
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Do you actually want to get the stain out? Or just geek out on stain removal?
Because I don’t know the science, but I’m willing to bet that my method works!
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Yours is near top of list things to try, after Molly’s suds, which is a glycerin based soap someone recommended. After that, your method. After that, increasingly geeky things.
I’m sure you’re confident, but lots of suggestions seem to be :)
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You are not getting tumric out of those fibers now. Had you not used an H²O on it it you could have removed it. Now you can only bleach it out and re-color.



