How to Clean Spilled Gasoline on a Carpet

Gasoline creates hazardous fumes that pose a threat to your health and the environment. However, with a little patience and the right materials, you would be able successfully to get rid of gasoline's hard smell.

Here are three suggestions offered by carpet cleaning Clapham to clean spilled gasoline on a carpet.

The first thing you can try is to soak the stained area with white vinegar and use a wet/dry vacuum cleaner to extract the vinegar from the carpet once it has sat on the gasoline spill for around 10 minutes. After the area has dried, sprinkle baking soda over it and let sit for overnight. Vacuum the baking soda up and make sure that no gasoline smell has left.

If the smell remains, you can use isopropyl alcohol to get rid of the hard smell of gasoline. Just replace the white vinegar from the previous technique with isopropyl alcohol, and follow the steps described above.

Another solution is to sprinkle unused coffee grounds over the affected area and allow them to sit for a day or two before vacuuming the carpet. Repeat this step several times before the odour completely vanishes. There is a chance you carpet to smell like coffee after this treatment, but it is definitely much better than smelling like gasoline.

Once the gasoline soaks into the carpet pad, the gasoline smell will be impossible to remove even for professionals, such as carpet cleaning Clapham team, until you don't replace the padding underneath with new one. Do not use soap and water to remove the gasoline, because it is oil based and the soap will only spread the smell around.