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Gum in the Rug!

I just found that somone has tracked chewed gum onto the oriental rug in our bedroom. It's a pretty tightly woven, heavy wool rug and I have NO idea how to get the rest of the gum out. Any suggestions?

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try putting a bag of ice on the gum for about 10 minutes. It should freeze it hard enough that it will peel right off. I have done this with clothes, and it works pretty well.

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try putting a bag of ice on the gum for about 10 minutes. It should freeze it hard enough that it will peel right off. I have done this with clothes, and it works pretty well.

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I heard that too. ICE to freeze it and then chip it away.

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Hey there, I had a professional come get gum out of my wool rug and he used dry ice to flash freeze it and then chipped it off with a knife blade. He was there and gone in less than 10 minutes.

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Try rubbing ice on it. Hope this helps.

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This has worked for me before. It is a trick taught to me by a school janitor.

Get a can of compressed air (the kind you use to blow out your computer).
Turn it UPSIDE DOWN and spray the gum in a few short blasts. The UPSIDE DOWN part is key, because the gum will freeze upon contact with the spray.
Now you have frozen gum that you can chisel out. I use a painter's tool (scraping blade) for this step.
Done.

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set some ice on top of it, leave it for awhile, after a little while you can actually with your fingernail scrape the gum out, repeat if needed.

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No....ice, that's too hard.

Tea tree oil... Melt's it and won't hurt the rug at all.

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I would caution against anything oil based as you don't know if it will stain the rug (peanut butter, tee tree oil, goo gone etc.) I would definitely try the compressed air and/or ice.

Good luck!

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