How to Remove Rust From Carpet

You don't have to learn to live with that awful rust stain on your carpet. Especially if the stain is new, you can tackle it with products you probably have in your kitchen.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Dishwashing Detergent
• Spray Bottles
• White Hand Towels
• Lemon Juices
• Paper Towels
• Paper Towels
• Utility Knives
• Paper towels

1. Try to scrape off as much of the rust as you can with a dull utility knife blade.

2. Saturate the entire stain with lemon juice (fresh-squeezed or bottled) sprayed from a spray bottle.

3. Allow the juice to remain for at least 5 minutes, but no longer than 10 minutes.

4. Blot the stain with a white paper towel. Do not rub the stain in.

5. Use liquid dishwashing detergent on the stain if the lemon juice doesn't do the trick. Thoroughly mix about 1/4 tsp. detergent with 1 quart of water.

6. Apply the detergent mixture to a clean, damp, white towel and gently blot the solution into the stained area until the stain is removed.

7. Spray water onto the area with a spray bottle and blot until the detergent solution and water are gone.

8. Allow the carpet to dry thoroughly before vacuuming.

Tips & Warnings

• It's important to use a clean, white towel when blotting the stained area; you don't want dyes from a colored towel to bleed into the carpet.
• If the stain has been present for some time and does not come up, contact a professional carpet cleaner.

[davebaldwin67]

on 3/25/2008 I've used a product called Magica that I bought at The Rust Store (www.theruststore.com) and it worked like a charm on the rust stains on my carpeting. I had a metal table that left four stains (one from each leg) on my beige carpeting. I put a few drops of Magica on and the stains were gone.

[davebaldwin67]

on 3/25/2008 I've used a product called Magica that I bought at The Rust Store (www.theruststore.com) and it worked like a charm on the rust stains on my carpeting. I had a metal table that left four large rust stains (one from each leg) on my beige carpeting. I put a few drops of Magica on and the stains were gone.

[davebaldwin67]

on 3/25/2008 I've used a product called Magica that I bought at The Rust Store (www.theruststore.com) and it worked like a charm on the rust stains on my carpeting. I had a metal table that left four stains (one from each leg) on my beige carpeting. I put a few drops of Magica on and the stains were gone.

[pukesluber]

on 3/1/2008 I had left a metal toolbox on the carpet. It rusted enough to leave chucks of rust in the carpet as well as rust stains. The lemon juice did not work; it just allowed the rust to stain more of the carpet. Used T-rust about four weeks afterward with good success, but not perfect results. I still have a slight discoloration from the rust in the carpet. Repeated use of T-Rust still has not removed all of the rust stain.

[carpetnutt1964]

on 11/3/2007 Try Folex Carpet Cleaner and a rag! That is all you will need! Floex is absolutely amazing!