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What to do When You Spill White Paint on the Carpet

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paint-spilled-on-carpet Last week we had a little mishap with a half full gallon of white paint, a certain little boy, and our carpet.

As I was walking about the house I noticed these odd white marks on the floor – upon closer inspection I realized they were partial footprints! I followed the footprints on a backwards trail and found the source … a half full gallon of white paint spilled all over our screened in porch carpet. 

I wish I had gotten a full shot of the room, but here is the best I have of the paint spill ::
paint-spilled-on-carpet-2If you find yourself in this predicament let me say this first — no amount of damage to any object is worth damaging the relationship you have with your child. Ask them to head to their room and wait for you if you need to collect yourself before talking to them. Kids make mistakes and cause accidents and some of them are breath taking-ly awful, but it is not worthwhile to respond out of your emotion.

But if you do, kids are wonderfully forgiving and overwhelmingly gracious in the face of an apology.

All right – now here is how we very successfully dealt with the paint on our carpet – using very stiff cardboard I scraped up as much of the paint as I possibly could – each piece of paint laden cardboard was tossed in a large trash bag.Through trial and error I found it worked best to hold two rectangular pieces of cardboard and, holding one in each hand, slide them towards each other, picking up as much paint as possible. 

Once I had scraped up as much as I could with the cardboard I dabbed at it with a rag, being careful to not spread the paint or rub it deeper into the carpet. 

Then we pulled out the SteamVac. Below is about how much paint was spread across the carpet after I had scraped it up: 
paint-spilled-on-carpet-3We bought this SteamVac back when we were moving out of a rental and into our own house – the cost of it was the same as renting a commercial one, but this way we would be able to clean our carpets in the new house – at the time we had very little ones and the dining room was carpeted! A nightmare! As we have slowly removed most of our carpeting this SteamVac has gotten very little use, but it was definitely a worthwhile purchase and has been worth holding onto. 

Anyway – we pulled out the SteamVac and ran over the area many times {most of the white you see is the soap!}paint-spilled-on-carpet-4 paint-spilled-on-carpet-5Paul pulled out a bristle brush and brushed across the carpet, which brought up some more paint. And then the SteamVac was run a bit longer.
paint-spilled-on-carpet-6 Below is how it looked once we had spent a solid 10 minutes with the SteamVac on it. You could see it, but not terribly awful.paint-spilled-on-carpet-7But! Everything dried and now we are left with it looking like this! It’s amazing, and I am so thankful!paint-spilled-on-carpet-8

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