While the cat's away....

[SlimRick]

Well - the missus is away for a week visiting friends and generally being a drunken tart, so I thought I'd do what most blokes would do and bring the bike into the front room to work on it in comfort

My question is:

How the fuck do you get rid of half a gallon of petrol that pissed onto the carpet when I lifted the tank off? Soaked up most of the excess, but by god does it stink in the house. I figure my options are:

Move out before the missus gets home.
Light a match and claim off the insurance.
Get a new carpet and tell the missus I was planning to surprise her by redecorating.
Find a miracle cleaner and buy shitloads of air fresheners.

Any other suggestions?

[NicM]

Profesional Carpet cleaner?

How about laying down a wood floor instead of the carpet?
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[Bendy]

Open all the windows in the house and freeze 24/7 until she gets home. Petrol smell usually dissipates after a few days of chilly gale blowing through. Nowt's going to mask it, you're gonna have to let it dissipate.

If you've got a Vax or similar 'make carpet wet and suck it up' type machine I'd probably try that but I take no responsibility for your hoover exploding.

[SoND]

Tell her you spilt something on the floor and thought petrol would clean it up. Innocent mistake to make.
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Diesel will get it out.

It's exactly like the red wine white wine thing.


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[rotax81]

brake cleaner and loads of clean cloths will do it. just be aware of how flammable it is.

or tell her some bird came round for the evening and you thought petrol would get the stains out
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[Blackwolf]

Dam it have no more Karma

you could hope and pray she dosent come back early?

What about just hiring out a carpet steamer/cleaner thing?
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[Bendy]

[Kris]

[DEN MONKEY]

One of these should sort it

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[Bofh5]

From previous experience i soaked as much up with kitchen roll as possible then used loads of washing detergent (Arial, Daz etc) and hot water and loads of towels to dry it as much as possible.
for a carpet cleaner you can hire them from Homebase for about £15 quid and they are the proper rug doctor professional ones.

Good luck
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[Carl_steveo]

Just cut that part of the carpet out and buy her a nice new coffee table from ikea to cover the hole sorted

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[Mr Nice Guy]

This thread is legend
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[njd27]

[kitty kat]

[SlimRick]

[69.9mph]

Buy a puppy.

They shit everywhere at 5 minute intervals, should cover the petrol smell nicely

[Pete.]

[Alex-RS]

[Barry_M2]

[SlimRick]

Got rid of most of it now, still a bit of an oily stain though and a lighter patch from the brake cleaner, and the fucking smell is diabolical.
Sat here now, with the coal fire fully loaded and every window in the house open.
I'm going rug shopping tomorrow, and I'm being blackmailed by my 8 year old son - he reckons he can get a DS out of me to keep him quiet the cheeky git (gonna get him a pink one)

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