A carpet miracle
In order to understand the full significance of what happened in our home this week, you need to first look at the Stain that Was. Please, click on it and take in the full, horrible, hideous purpleness of it.
If and only if you have done that, now please scroll down and look at this:
Ta-da!! The stain is mostly gone. And not at all purple.
How did this happen? Well, when the first guy from Aaron's Carpet Cleaning came out, he sprayed some chemicals on the worst part of the stain, ran his machine over, and it appeared to do no good whatsoever. He apologized, charged me $35 bucks for the attempt, and left.
And then, a funny thing happened. As the day went on, the place where he had sprayed the stuff began to change color. By the time my brother-in-law came over for dinner that night, we noticed that it was black, instead of purple. As more time passed, the stain, like a bruise, changed from purple to black to gray to brown to yellow. And that's where it has stayed. Yellow.
Also, a lot of the smeary stuff surrounding the main blotch disappeared. So, we called Mr. Aaron back, told him the happy news, and asked him to send someone out to try a second application. The first time had such a dramatic (though slow) effect, maybe a second dose would get rid of it altogether.
So yesterday Carpet Guy No. 2 showed up. He sprayed the magic juice on all the little spots surrounding the main spot, and also saturated the now-yellow main stain with the stuff. He didn't even charge us.
And, nearly 24 hours later, the little spots are all but invisible. I think it's a major improvement!
The yellow spot, unfortunately, does not seem to be fading a bit. Apparently purple-to-yellow is as good as the magic stuff can do. And while it's not quite as glaring as the original purple stain, a yellow stain is still a stain. It's still definitely visible. And so when we move out the apartment people will still likely charge us for replacing the carpet.
But hey, we gave it a shot. And it only cost $35.
So now, instead of looking like our carpet was attacked by bandits wielding grape popsicles, it looks like it was attacked by bandits wielding....urine. I'm trying hard to think of happy yellow associations for what the spot now looks like--daffodils, sunshine, lemonade--instead of...cat pee.
Are we sure this is an improvement?
If and only if you have done that, now please scroll down and look at this:
Ta-da!! The stain is mostly gone. And not at all purple.
How did this happen? Well, when the first guy from Aaron's Carpet Cleaning came out, he sprayed some chemicals on the worst part of the stain, ran his machine over, and it appeared to do no good whatsoever. He apologized, charged me $35 bucks for the attempt, and left.
And then, a funny thing happened. As the day went on, the place where he had sprayed the stuff began to change color. By the time my brother-in-law came over for dinner that night, we noticed that it was black, instead of purple. As more time passed, the stain, like a bruise, changed from purple to black to gray to brown to yellow. And that's where it has stayed. Yellow.
Also, a lot of the smeary stuff surrounding the main blotch disappeared. So, we called Mr. Aaron back, told him the happy news, and asked him to send someone out to try a second application. The first time had such a dramatic (though slow) effect, maybe a second dose would get rid of it altogether.
So yesterday Carpet Guy No. 2 showed up. He sprayed the magic juice on all the little spots surrounding the main spot, and also saturated the now-yellow main stain with the stuff. He didn't even charge us.
And, nearly 24 hours later, the little spots are all but invisible. I think it's a major improvement!
The yellow spot, unfortunately, does not seem to be fading a bit. Apparently purple-to-yellow is as good as the magic stuff can do. And while it's not quite as glaring as the original purple stain, a yellow stain is still a stain. It's still definitely visible. And so when we move out the apartment people will still likely charge us for replacing the carpet.
But hey, we gave it a shot. And it only cost $35.
So now, instead of looking like our carpet was attacked by bandits wielding grape popsicles, it looks like it was attacked by bandits wielding....urine. I'm trying hard to think of happy yellow associations for what the spot now looks like--daffodils, sunshine, lemonade--instead of...cat pee.
Are we sure this is an improvement?
2 comments:
Well, it is less cat pee than grape popsicle. We can be thankful for that.
Oh that second to last paragraph had me laughing in hysterics. I had to read the whole thing to Jason.
Glad the purple came out. Maybe the yellow will eventually fade away!
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