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Help! Carpet turned neon green from heat

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Posted by pudgybaby (My Page) on
Sat, Feb 6, 10 at 20:13

I have some discolored carpet in a small spare bedroom. The carpet turned neon green in three spots from the heating pad on the bottom of a glass aquarium that housed a gecko (the crickets were chirping in the night so my son moved the gecko into the guest bedroom in the middle of the night. I guess this happened on three different occasions and no one noticed :(

Any ideas how to fix this? Is there such a thing as carpet dyeing? We have some spare carpet which could be used to patch it, but I'm not sure how big a patch we could make and how it would look.

We installed this carpet maybe 6 years ago and I don't remember much about what it is made of. Just typical carpet fibers, if there is such a thing (acrylic?)

TIA!

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RE: Help! Carpet turned neon green from heat

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The heat or maybe something else has created a chemical reaction removed the red and blue from your carpet dye and changed the color. There is no fix that I know of. A dye would never be an exact match. We had the same thing happen with our dark green carpet when my son was sick on our living room carpet and the reaction was instant. I wiped it up immediately and shampooed the spot. we thought the acid in his vomit removed the color.

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If you have any carpet scraps you may be able to have them pieced in.

  
 

 

 


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