Spilt milk - Help

Posted by: Southweststokie on 10 August 2014

Spilt milk on the lounge carpet (glass full) on Friday night, cleaned it up as best we could. Today all we can smell is the awful stench of sour milk in the lounge!! We have deep cleaned the carpet again this morning, 1001 carpet cleaner and scrubbing brush but now it has dried the stench remains! 

 

Does anyone have any advise / tips to solve our dilemma other than replace the carpet. To add to the headache we have friends coming to stay on Tuesday so even any short term fix would appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Ken

Posted on: 10 August 2014 by Kevin-W

Ken -

 

Have you tried sprinkling lemon juice on it, then scrubbing really hard with bicarbonate of soda (NOT baking soda, which is different) Worked for me when the same thing happened on my carpet.

 

K

Posted on: 10 August 2014 by winkyincanada

You have my sympathy. Rancid milk makes me gag like few other noxious smells.

Posted on: 10 August 2014 by Southweststokie
Originally Posted by Kevin-W:

Ken -

 

Have you tried sprinkling lemon juice on it, then scrubbing really hard with bicarbonate of soda (NOT baking soda, which is different) Worked for me when the same thing happened on my carpet.

 

K

Thanks, I will give it a try.

 

Ken

Posted on: 10 August 2014 by Huge
Originally Posted by Southweststokie:
Originally Posted by Kevin-W:

Ken -

 

Have you tried sprinkling lemon juice on it, then scrubbing really hard with bicarbonate of soda (NOT baking soda, which is different) Worked for me when the same thing happened on my carpet.

 

K

Thanks, I will give it a try.

 

Ken

From what is the carpet made?

Are the dyes natural or synthetic?

Is there an inconspicuous are you can test for colour resistance?

Can you allow the carpet to become wet?

 

Do you have a wet/dry vacuum cleaner?

Posted on: 10 August 2014 by Southweststokie
Originally Posted by Huge:
Originally Posted by Southweststokie:
Originally Posted by Kevin-W:

Ken -

 

Have you tried sprinkling lemon juice on it, then scrubbing really hard with bicarbonate of soda (NOT baking soda, which is different) Worked for me when the same thing happened on my carpet.

 

K

Thanks, I will give it a try.

 

Ken

From what is the carpet made?

Are the dyes natural or synthetic?

Is there an inconspicuous are you can test for colour resistance?

Can you allow the carpet to become wet?

 

Do you have a wet/dry vacuum cleaner?

The carpet can become wet as we have already washed with carpet cleaner and water, the colour resistance appears good.

 

Ken

Posted on: 10 August 2014 by Mr Mole

This may sound strange, but Simple Solution from Pets at Home is very good at removing "organic" odours. It's in the cat products section. We use a lot of it...........no, don't ask!

Posted on: 11 August 2014 by Mike-B

Rug Doctor have a number of specialist carpet cleaning products,  & it really does everything claimed of it each time I've used it.

http://www.rugdoctor.co.uk/cle...et-cleaning-products

The Odour Remover is probably what you need - see the list of sales outlets at the large supermarkets

They also have a buy or rent option for the big vac cleaner if you want to tackle a whole carpet clean yourself 

Posted on: 11 August 2014 by Southweststokie
Originally Posted by Mike-B:

Rug Doctor have a number of specialist carpet cleaning products,  & it really does everything claimed of it each time I've used it.

http://www.rugdoctor.co.uk/cle...et-cleaning-products

The Odour Remover is probably what you need - see the list of sales outlets at the large supermarkets

They also have a buy or rent option for the big vac cleaner if you want to tackle a whole carpet clean yourself 

Thanks Mike, will check it out

Posted on: 11 August 2014 by Huge
Originally Posted by Mr Mole:

This may sound strange, but Simple Solution from Pets at Home is very good at removing "organic" odours. It's in the cat products section. We use a lot of it...........no, don't ask!

This is one of my recommendations as well, but you need to do it first - it doesn't work anywhere near so well if there's detergent residue in the carpet fibers; so the carpet cleaner you've already used will reduce it's effectiveness.

 

The last resort after using normal cleaning materials is hydrogen peroxide.

Make the amp affected area of carpet damp (n.b. not wet!)

Use 20 or 30 volume hydrogen peroxide (obtainable from a chemist)

Spray this onto the affected area and leave to evaporate.

 

You should test for colour fastness as peroxide will bleach most natural dyes.

 

If you get the peroxide on your hands, just wash it of reasonably quickly.  Be careful not to get it in your eyes.

 

 

P.S.  Mr Mole, this works for your repeat problem as well when the 'Simple Solution' isn't enough to defeat the cats' noses.

Posted on: 11 August 2014 by Scooot
Hi,
Just asked the wife as she runs a car valeting business.
She recommends a product called bio brisk.it is designed to remove odour for milk,blood and urine.it can be bought from a company called auto smart.

Scott