I have 3 children and believe it or not have never needed to remove gum from my carpet. I am a teacher and in my new classroom I have gum in the carpet and there is no knowing how long it has been there. School begins on the 20th and I need the gum gone. Does anyone have a tried and true method of removing gum from the carpet? Thanks for your help.
Thank you so much for all the advice! Peanut butter and Goo Gone were the most popular so I intended to use Goo Gone and left it at home! I had taken peanut butter with me to make a sandwich, so I spread it on the gum. It started to come up but was requiring some elbow grease. I went to the janitor's closet (we have no janitor yet - just a closet :-)) to get something else and found a huge spray bottle of Goo Gone! I sprayed the Goo Gone on top of the peanut butter, waited and then scrubbed it with a brush! It virtually disappeared. Thanks again for your help!
Shaklee's Basic H2 does a wonderful job removing gum!!! I have some samples I could send you! Let me know if you want some!
C. Peterson
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Goo Gone is great stuff give it a try. You can get it at wal-mart I think. also good for gettig off all the adhesive stuff from desks and such.
Perhaps the custodial staff may have a special product for this, as I suspect they have encountered it before.
If not, I second the recommendations for Goo Gone or freezing it with an ice cube.
Try freezing it with ice, then pull it up carefully. Or peanut butter will break the gum down. Then you will have to use a degreaser to get the oil from the peanut butter. Only tips I know.
Ice usually works well. Just place it on the gum and it will freeze it. You can then just scrape it off.
T.
Freeze the gum and then take a razor blade and cut at the gum breaking it into tiny pieces that fall off and can be picked up.
If you go to your local $dollar store there is a cleaner called Awesome. It is a rather big bottle for $1.00 and this works great!! If not peanut butter---be sure to clean it with dawn liquid dish soap after to get the grease/oil out from the peanut butter, once the gum is gone. The peanut butter breaks the gum apart and it will come out in chuks--using a comb will help pull it out. Good luck!!!
did you try freezing it out?
Hold an ice cube on the gum until it is frozen. It will then be easy to "break off" the carpet.
The only way I have heard of (never had to try) is to use ice to make it hard and then put a towel over the gum and use a hot iron. Supposedly this will cause the gum to stick only to the towel and not the carpet.
If the peanut butter doesn't work try a product called "Goo Be Gone". You can find it at WalMart, Menards, Ace Hardware, etc. It has a chemical smell..not terrible just a sweet type of odor. But it works great on gum, sticky labels, scuff marks, etc. Good Luck!
ice makes the gums very hard and then you can pick it off. works on almost anything, but if its stuck deep in the carpet I'm not sure if it will work.
Goo Gone! You can get it at Home depot.
You can get gum out with Sol U Mel. It is an all natural product from a Wellness Company that I have a home business with.....It will get the gum out.
L. Guinnee
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Not sure about carpet but try peanut butter. Yes, I know it sounds weird, but it works for hair. Something about the oils in the peanut butter break down the chemical bonds in the gum. I wouldn't offer this up if we hadn't tried it ourselves in hair. I hope it works for your carpeting!
Try one of the following or all if one doesn't work. Ice -- peanut butter -- or toothpaste. One of these will be sure to work.
Kim,
Have you tried peanut butter??? Put some peanut butter on the gum,pull at the fibers or scrape at it .... it should come out! Peanut butter works wonders.... takes gum out of hair and clothing.... also My Grandson and I had tree sap on our hands from picking up branches after a storm... peanut butter took the sap off our hands with no problem.... Good Luck!
AnnJ
Try a product called GOO GONE, you can get it at any hardware store. It works miracles! Gets anything sticky off of anything, I have even used it to get crayon off of walls. You can even get gum out of hair withit. Good luck.
THere is a product called Goof Off. It removes things like gum,candle wax, crayon, lipstick and things like that. I know you can get it at Menard's and probably other places as well. Good luck!
