How to Clean a Burn Mark from a Carpet

Red Carpet

Burn marks can occur on a carpet if someone dropped a cigarette or match on it. It can also get burned if any candle wax drips off of the candle on to the floor. You may think that this is impossible to get up, but it isn't.

Things You'll Need

• Razor
• Iron
• Paper grocery bag
• Scissors
• Super glue

Instructions

1. Use a razor to remove any burnt tips in your carpet fibers. This works for plain burns. Just lightly work the razor out and up on all sides of the carpet fibers. This takes patience, especially if you burned a large area of your rug. It does work though.

2. Cut a brown paper bag to fit over your wax burn. Turn your iron on low and iron over the brown paper bag. Keep checking because you may need to replace the bag a few times. The wax melts right off of the carpet and attaches to the paper. You can then freshen up your carpet fibers with a razor just like you did in step 1.

3. Use the blade of one side of a pair of your scissor and run it across the burn. Go back and forth several times until the burnt parts of the carpet begin to flake off. It will begin to look much better than it did before because the healthy fibers underneath the burn will begin to show.

4. Cut the burnt fibers off with a pair of scissor. Then cut some good fibers from some leftover carpet or carpet in your closet that no one will see and superglue it in the spot where the burn was. The superglue is powerful and will keep your new carpet fibers in place even when you vacuum over them.

5. Use a piece of sandpaper to sand away the burnt part of the fibers. You can then determine whether the fibers look normal again or whether they are burnt beyond repair. If so you can cut them out and replace them with new carpet of the same color and texture.

Tips & Warnings

• You can also freeze wax burns with a few ice cubes and then chip them away with a spoon. Carpet glue and a hot glue gun also work to secure new fibers in the old fibers place.

• Don't put your iron on high or you could set your brown paper bag on fire.