Removing nail varnish from a carpet

Basic Extraction

To remove nail varnish yourself, you will need nail varnish remover (acetone) cotton bud sticks, paper towels, water, a blunt knife and a cotton white towel.

“DO NOT SCRUB” In fact, you never scrub any stain, scrubbing ruins the carpet’s appearance even if you successfully remove the stain.

✓ First if there is a lot then use a blunt knife to take off the excess, try your best to lift out the nail varnish rather than scrape, you could use 2 blunt knives this way or a blunt knife and some paper towel, just make sure your careful not to spread the varnish.
✓ Next, you will need patience and a lot of cotton buds, gently tease off the nail varnish using cotton buds dipped in acetone.
✓ Once all nail varnish has been lifted, blot the area with a damp paper towel.
✓ If there is any colour left, you can wet the paper towel with acetone and press down on the stain to emulsify and lift
✓ Once you are getting no more colour transfer onto your towel, you will not remove any more, now you need to flush out the acetone.
✓ Spray the area with water and blot, repeat until you feel there is no more acetone left in the carpet.

Advance Techniques

What happens if the nail varnish hardens?

Has colour pigmentation in it?

To break down the hardener, we use a variety of sandpapers from coarse to fine.

This is time-consuming as we need to be careful we don’t add any further damage to the fibres.

Once the fibres can be moved around, we can now add our solvent.

We either spray or wipe on. Repetitive treatments are normally required as this breaks down the components and colouring.

We flush the area with just cold water under pressure.

Once no further dye, pigment or varnish is to be removed, we examine the tips of the fibres.

Some may have to be nipped with a pair of scissors.

The section is then steam cleaned.

For this type of work, we can not provide a quote as work times vary along with solution amounts added.