Getting Ink Out
With seven children accidents tend to happen more often that in a house with say...one child. We've seen more than our fair share of wear and tear on houses and have learned many tricks of the trade for cleaning up messes that seem impossible to clean. I'm talented like that. (Just kidding- I should say I'm stressed out like that. LOL)
We recently moved (again). We are a military family with two pairs of gypsy feet that get restless after 10 months in one house, state, country.... During the last move we were working hard to get the carpets and walls clean, pack our stuff and move it into the next house. I had my son and my eleven year old daughter working in the kitchen cleaning the last few dishes and packing up the dry ones. They decided to get goofy and my son took an ink pen apart and got a feather from one of our parakeets and made a "quill" to write on some paper. Ingenious. What he didn't know was that the ink spilled onto the floor, he stepped in it and smeared it all over the linoleum. When I discovered it I immediately put them both to work cleaning it up. None of it came up. We tried 409 and rubbing alcohol.
We had a carpet cleaner here at the time and he was boiling away a chemical color combination on the stove because he was doing a color restoration on the carpet. To be nice, he said he had something that might get it off. An hour later I came back and he told me the bad and good news. The bad news was he couldn't get it off. The good news was he had a recipe that would.
Here it is:
4 scoops oxyclean
2-4 tablespoons of rubbing alcohol
Make a paste and scrub with a toothbrush.
It worked!!!
He said we can use the same recipe on carpet, just leave it to sit (do the same on the floor) and it will help lift it out.
We recently moved (again). We are a military family with two pairs of gypsy feet that get restless after 10 months in one house, state, country.... During the last move we were working hard to get the carpets and walls clean, pack our stuff and move it into the next house. I had my son and my eleven year old daughter working in the kitchen cleaning the last few dishes and packing up the dry ones. They decided to get goofy and my son took an ink pen apart and got a feather from one of our parakeets and made a "quill" to write on some paper. Ingenious. What he didn't know was that the ink spilled onto the floor, he stepped in it and smeared it all over the linoleum. When I discovered it I immediately put them both to work cleaning it up. None of it came up. We tried 409 and rubbing alcohol.
We had a carpet cleaner here at the time and he was boiling away a chemical color combination on the stove because he was doing a color restoration on the carpet. To be nice, he said he had something that might get it off. An hour later I came back and he told me the bad and good news. The bad news was he couldn't get it off. The good news was he had a recipe that would.
Here it is:
4 scoops oxyclean
2-4 tablespoons of rubbing alcohol
Make a paste and scrub with a toothbrush.
It worked!!!
He said we can use the same recipe on carpet, just leave it to sit (do the same on the floor) and it will help lift it out.
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Wow, I wonder if it would work on walls too?? I think I shall try it because Carson has been quite the little artist in his room and went to town with a red ink pen in his closet.