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Hi, I?m Lisa Goldsworthy with ACE Carpet and Upholstery Care and I'm here to talk about
my favorite subject, chocolate. Often times we have chocolate spills on carpeting so this
particular segment, we're going to deal with that. And what we see here would be our lovely
chocolate and it's ground in pretty good. So I would always recommend with the use for
the chocolate on the carpet is to first vacuum. And I would do so with the upholstery tool
versus the *** brush versus your normal vacuum process. The *** brush may just
set that stain a little bit further. Let's go ahead and use our upholstery cleaning tool
and I am going to want as much suction from this as possible, so I don't have any attachment
on this. I just want to get the debris out of the carpet. So let's do that first. Alright.
So you may have noticed the technique I used with that vacuuming process was just allowing
that cup just to kind of sit on there. I don't want to scrub; I never scrub when you clean
a carpet. You're going to damage the carpet fiber. So always remember it's just kind of
nice to get in the habit of a blotting type of process, including even your vacuuming,
when you want to get up as much dry soil as possible. Lot of this seemed to you know kind
of come up just in the vacuuming process. So that's great! You always want to start
with a vacuum with this chocolate type of spill. Step number two, get our trusty white
towel. You always want a white towel, nothing with any printing on it. And let's start with
some cold water, OK? And I just want to blot the area and see if I get any color transfer
there first. And I always start at the edge of the spill or stain or spot. Start at the
edge because you always want to work your way in. Often times if you were to start working
your way right at the middle of it, you may be spreading that spot. So let's take a look
and see if we're getting any color transfer; very little. I mean very, very, very little
here. OK. One thing that you could try would be a laundry detergent without bleach. No
bleach. So really read your labels very carefully on your laundry detergent. And in fact, I
would even test a small area with the detergent; maybe in your closet, a very inconspicuous
area. Test it first before tackling your chocolate stain with it. But let's go ahead and use
a very small amount. So what I'm doing is I'm blotting as you can tell with my very
small amount of detergent. OK? Another motion you could do would be to go back and forth
very gently, back and forth. Now we're getting some you know nice results here. Because you
can see where I started, right there. So it's coming up. Now what I want to do after I do
that detergent is I want to take my cold water and I want to blot it. It's rare that I ever
use detergent in any clean up. You just want to use it so sparingly, because you don't
want to leave any soapy residue in your carpet. Often times you will find that if you use
too much soapy cleaner in your carpet, then the stain is gone, but you might notice a
week or two later that area where that stain was is just dirty. Well most likely what's
occurring is that you are, there's soapy residue left in the carpet, therefore attracting soil.
So take a look at that. That?s half of our stain already gone. So it's a good solution.
Always remember that after you use your detergent is to blot that really, really well with cold
water because it will help neutralize that detergent and remove that soapiness of the
detergent. But use it sparingly. You're going to have nice results I think with that, so,
good luck.