Clean Putty Colored Carpeting

Scrape off as much putty as possible.

Clean putty colored carpeting.

Fortunately there are several tricks you can use to remove a glob of silly putty even if it s already hardened on your favorite rug. First thing you need is a bag of ice. Use ice cubes to chill the putty making it easier to scrape away. Spray a liberal amount of wd 40 over the silly putty blob and allow it to sit for about five minutes.

A ziplock bag with enough ice in it to cover the whole area of the silly putty is what you need. Next use a butter knife to scrape the silly putty out of the carpet. If the ice. Freezing the silly putty step 1.

Here are a few different ways that you can get rid of silly putty from your carpet. For removing silly putty on carpet i used wd 40 on spot for 10 minutes as recommended on your website but i had no rubbing alcohol so instead i followed with oxi clean in hot water a little rubbing with an old toothbrush and the silly putty came right out. Place the bag of ice on the silly putty and leave it for a few hours. Saturate a cotton ball with nail polish remover and blot the stained area.

Sure enough my son received several containers of silly putty for a birthday party and once again it ended up in my carpet. The stretchy impressionable quality of silly putty makes it fun to play with but a mess to get out of carpet. After my first experience i decided to avoid silly putty completely but well meaning family members didn t receive that memo. This should give it enough time for the oil in the lubricant to make the silly putty release its hold on the carpet fibers so you can wipe or scoop it up.