Our ongoing project this summer is the floor in the dinning room living room area. We took up the carpet in the dinning room half and have been pecking at the dark stains that are there from a mysterious orgin.
When Charlie moved into the house about ten years ago his father gave him a Burber area carpet for the whole room as a house warming gift. So it saved money on refinishing and looked great. And It was a great rug but was now getting old. And Charlie can't remember if the black spots were there when he put the carpet down or not. So a mystery is born.
The reason it sorta matters what the spots are from is, if we knew what they actually were it might be easier getting them off. But, then where would the fun be?
The space seems bigger without the carpet.
Here are the black mystery spots (with hydrogen peroxide on them).
We have already tried wood cleaner, Clorox , steel wool and vinegar. These are very determined spots.
Here's Charlie with his q-tip and Hydrogen peroxide. He had been working feverishly with a toothbrush scrubbing the spots for a good half hour.
What was I doing you ask, I was sitting on the couch knitting, I'm the person that had used all the other products and invested a whole evening employing much elbow grease of my own against the spots to no avail, so I decided the spots won and could stay for all I cared. LOL
SOOOO.... When elbow grease fails -- pull out the HE MAN TOOLS ! Really only a man would think of this. He stuck one of those green dish scrubbing pads on the bottem of his sander and went to town!
Well, I must say brute force faded those spots considerlby, but now I suppose we will have to do the whole floor.
Oh My, I would love to help him but I'm going to be out of the house for awhile helping a family member, sorry honey.
When Charlie gets it in his head about doing something it gets done - Me I find a way to see the problem in the positive, like "the spots give the floor character" and move on to easier things.
Opposites attract. XOXO
Bye for now.
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