How to get red kool-aid stains out of the carpet?

I have several stains on my carpet red coolaide does anybody know how to get it out?

The red color in koolaid is particularily difficult to get out of carpet. I know a woman who had her expensive white carpet ruined by a red koolaid stain and ended up using her homeowner's insurance to replace it.

Hopefully you got most of it up at right after the spill. For all spills time is of the escence; blot up as much as possible and keep wetting the carpet and blotting until you can't get any more up. Then if you have a carpet cleaner run the extractor to try to pull up some more of the stain.

Oxyclean works on some stains but not all. I'd try that next.

If the stain has set I doubt you will ever get it completley up but you may be able to make it light enough that it isn't as obvious.

If you have some left over scraps of carept the stained sections can be removed and new carpet patched in. I've had this done for some damaged carpets.

Scissors...

I think that bleach might work but it depends on what color the carpet is beacause you dont want to bleac it!

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O Ye of little knowledge.. hahaha. Bleach? Hahahaha. I own a carpet cleaning company.

Red dye (kool-aid) removal:

Use a mixture of half ammonia half water. If you don't have ammonia.. try some Windex (but be careful because it's blue. I would stick with ammonia/water)

Saturate the kool-aid spot with your solution.

Next get a WHITE rag. Soak it down with water until it is dripping.

Place the rag over the spot.

Heat up an iron

Place the iron place the iron over the spot, on top of the rag.

It will begin to sizzle.

Leave the iron on the rag for appox 20-40 seconds. If you want to pull it off and place it back on it every 10 seconds, that works too.

BE CAREFUL TO NOT BURN YOUR CARPET!!!

Walla! The kool-aid has now transfered itself to the white rag.

Repeat if necessary but keep in mind that you CAN burn your carpet with too many tries.

Or alternatively, call a professional!

To the last persons advise!!! You are a carpet god!!! I just finished cleaning red coolaid out of my cream colored carpet that was in their for 6 days with complete success!!! Thank You. I had a Birthday party and no one told me the spilled a lot of coolaid in my sons room!! It does take a little time and patience but works VERY well!! Make sure you clean your iron after it cools because it does get a layer of crap on it from the process!! Thanks!!

Chris G---
THANK YOU FOR THE WONDERFUL ADVICE. I SPILLED A WHOLE GLASS FULL OF RED JUICE ON MY BRAND NEW CARPET IN MY BRAND NEW HOME... I WAS SICK...THANKS TO YOUR ADVICE... I JUST GOT DONE REMOVING THE STAIN. IT WAS ALMOST LIKE WATCHING A MIRACLE. I ACTUALLY FOUND MYSELF WISHING I HAD MORE STAINS THAT I COULD TAKE OUT. LOL.. THANKS AGAIN.