OMG, have you just discovered a chocolate stain on your carpet?  Sure, it’s happened to most of us.  Most people love to indulge in the eating of chocolate however from time to time bit of chocolate end up on the floor.  It doesn’t exactly help if you have kids in your household who make a mess and then keep quite about it.  So the chocolate stain could have been there for quite sometime.

Oh well, there’s not much point in crying about it, instead you just need to take action so that you can get rid of the problem.  The quicker you can clean it off the easier it’s going to be however the problem might be so bad that you’d be better off phoning up a local carpet cleaning service so that they can do the cleaning up for you.  You might even see it as an opportunity to have all of your carpets professionally cleaned so they look brand new again.

Anyway, if you want to tackle the job yourself you will first of all need to get rid of as much of the chocolate as you can with something like a butter knife.  Just make sure you are very gentle with the carpeting because you don’t want it getting damaged whilst you hack away at it with a carving knife!

Now you need to know what kind of carpeting you have.  Carpets can be made from a variety of different materials these days including natural and manmade.  Natural fibers can include wool, sisal, jute, coir and seagrass.  Man made fibers could be polypropylene or polyamide.  A lot of carpets these days can also be a mixture of both natural and man made fibres in order to give you the best of both properties.

When it comes to cleaning a carpet you have to be extra cautious with natural carpets.  This is perhaps one of the main reasons you would want to contact the best carpet cleaning service in your area.  They will know exactly what type of carpet you have and therefore what treatment is needed for eradicating that chocolate stain.

Natural carpeting should never be cleaned with a liquid stain remover.  This is because natural fibers absorb liquids and it will cause them to become damaged.  You don’t even want to use water on natural fibers if you can help it.  Instead you need to look for a dry cleaning solvent.  Some brands include Host, Chem-Dry and Capture.

If you have a man mad fibre carpet then you can use basically any carpet cleaner that says it’s suitable for the purpose and follow the instruction.  Popular brands include Oxi-Clean, Vax and Hoover.

Whenever you are treating stains on your carpeting it’s a very good idea to do a patch test.  It might be that you have bought the wrong product and it ends up damaging the carpet.  So test it in an area (such as behind a house plant or item of furniture) because if it causes damage to your carpet it won’t really be visible.  If you find that it’s not working as well as you would’ve liked then you really need to contact a carpet cleaning service who can do the job properly. 

Remember, carpets don’t come cheap and you don’t want to ruin yours by tackling a job such as a chocolate stain only to find out you’ve ruined your carpet.  You would then have to live with it looking a mess or spend a lot of money having a new carpet installed.  So be careful.