If you have an accident or some other unfortunate event, you may get some blood on your carpet. Like most stains, it is best to clean it up as soon as it happens. But one is not always able to do this. Dried blood can be a permanent stain, but it never hurts to try to clean it.
Here are a few helpful tips to help you clean up that stain.
- Use clean preferably white rags and towels to start blotting up the stain. Try not to spread the stain around by rubbing at it.
- Pour a small amount of detergent on the stain and work it in a little. Let it settle in and then blot it up.
- Pour some ammonia on the stain and allow it to set in. After a few minutes you can then blot it up.
- Hopefully the last few steps broke up the stain enough to remove it. If so, you just need to rinse the stained area with some clean water. And of course, you guessed it, blot it up with a clean white towel or rag. You may have to repeat the cleaning a process a couple of times for dried blood stains.
Some other cleaning remedies list using shaving cream to release the stain. Others mention combinations of salt-water paste, club soda, and mild peroxide. So hopefully you will never need to use this advice, but if you do, you’ll be glad to know it is here.