a simple recipe :: silly putty remover

Do your children love to play with Silly Putty? Mine do, but unfortunately they don’t know when to tell me they have made a mess. The first time I found Silly Putty in my carpet I nearly had a heart attack. Could you image vacuuming your carpet and realizing your child covered up Silly Putty to keep from getting in trouble? Needless to say I found it several months later.  It was so hard it didn’t think it was possible to get that dried up putty out of my carpet, but I tried several cleaning products to up up with this great combination.  So yesterday when I noticed my child had dropped some Silly Putty on the carpet again I knew just what to do.

Supplies::

• Goo Gone
• Rubbing Alcohol
• Rag

 

 

Step 1:: The first thing you do is coat the Silly Putty heavily with Goo Gone.  Move it around and spray more Goo Gone to make sure that it is coated heavily.  I used an old top to scrape at the putty. Make sure to add more Goo Gone and scrape some more.

Step 2:: Once I had scraped most of the Silly Putty out of the carpet I used Rubbing Alcohol to clean the area of all Goo Gone and leftover Silly Putty. I poured a good bit of Rubbing Alcohol on the area and then used a rag to clean the remaining Silly Putty off my carpet.  You will have to put some elbow grease into the rubbing, but the end result is well worth it.

Step 3:: Once you have cleaned the area good with Rubbing Alcohol then you can just dry your carpet and you will never know that it was once covered in Silly Putty!

Would you try this cleaning recipe? Please let us know if it works for you.