If you have children, you need to know how to get slime out of carpet. Even if it hasn’t happened yet, I can assure you, it will. Perhaps it won’t be carpet, but it will be your couch, drapes or favorite shirt.
SLIME…
You are a horrible, evil, crafty concoction my kids discovered on the internet. There is a large part of me that wishes slime had never, ever been invented. (I mean who really wants to drive around town looking for a gallon container of Elmer’s glue!)
There is another part of me that loves slime because it manages to keep the kids busy for hours with no requests for the Kindle, television, or the computer.
However a few months ago I had to BAN SLIME FROM MY HOME. Yes, I realize I’m not winning mother of the year, but my girls had taken the slime into their bedroom and managed to get it all over their carpet. (Their almost new carpet… ugh!)
I mean it’s one thing for me to spill paint all over the carpet, but slime in the carpet is a different story.
I’m not talking about a few small spots that could be ignored or chalked to up the nail polish spill of 2016 or sharpie-gate 2015. I’m talking about basketball sized globs of slime in my less than 3 year old carpet.
(note: there was significantly more slime on the carpet, however I didn’t think to take pictures until they were halfway through removing slime)
It was so bad that I ended up buying this pink rug to cover the slime spots in their carpet. (This is a catalogue picture- their room has never been this clean.)
Will vinegar get slime out of the carpet?
Recently, my daughter told me she thought vinegar would get slime out of carpet. Vinegar is a great way to clean things around the house. Since the carpet was ruined anyway I figured it wouldn’t hurt to let them try to get slime out of the carpet. If the slime stains disappeared it would be awesome.
If not, we still have the pink rug to cover the slime stains and who doesn’t love the smell of vinegar?? 🙂
Now, there is a small catch to this method. We used a “Spot Bot” type carpet cleaning machine to clean the carpet. You can clean slime out of carpet without a carpet cleaner, but I wanted to make sure we were able to suck up all the excess water/vinegar from the carpet.
(because I was kidding about loving the smell of vinegar, I don’t!)
This is the carpet spot cleaner that we have, because two years ago I lost my mind and decided to get a puppy, and spent six months cleaning up puppy pee.
But there are cheaper options like this Hoover Spot Scrubber.
In my opinion if you have children, pets, or messy friends – you need a spot remover machine. I cannot believe I waited so long to purchase one.
Random photo of girl (get all the slime on my carpet culprit) and puppy (pee all over my carpet culprit). Aren’t they cute? It’s hard to stay mad at them when they are this adorable….
Okay back to the topic at hand, how to get slime out of carpet. This is what we did and it worked amazing! However the room did smell like vinegar for a few days. I recommend airing the room out if there are as many spots in the carpet as we had.
How to get slime out of carpet
- Pour white vinegar over the stained/slime covered area.
- Let vinegar soak in the carpet for 3-5 minutes.
- Scrub stained area with a scrub brush or a carpet scrubber.
- The stain should start to disappear.
- Once the stain has been scrubbed out, spray the area with a light mist of water.
- Then sop up or vacuum up the excess liquid with the spot scrubber.
Side note: If you lose the hand cleaner part of your spot scrubber (ahem) you can use the spot scrubber to suck up liquids without actually scrubber. All you do is remove the soapy tank from the cleaner and use as normal.
How to get slime out of carpet without a spot scrubber
- Pour white vinegar over the stained/slime covered area.
- Let vinegar soak in the carpet for 3-5 minutes.
- Scrub stained area with a scrub brush, toothbrush, or clean rag.
- The slime should start to disappear.
- Once the stain has been scrubbed out, spray the area with a light mist of water.
- Then sop up the excess liquid with clean rags or paper towels.
- If you don’t have a spot scrubber you can use a shop-vac to suck up the excess liquid.
It is important to make sure that the carpet is nearly dry when you are finished removing the slime. After we got all the slime out of the carpet I did run a fan in the room for a few days to make sure everything was dry and to help get rid of the vinegar smell.
You will be happy to know that slime is no longer banned from my home, however it is required to never leave the kitchen. So far, so good.
