Dyeing a carpet to hide a stain

Sorry about your carpet

I'm not up on how to to dye a carpet but I just if you could claim on your contents insurance?

Just wonder

Thats what I was thinking. insurance. I think I would either shift furniture and/or place rug or get new carpet. unless of course I couldn't afford it. In which case the rug.
Unless, just a thought if its a small area is it patchable.

Oops just noticed you said large!

I would give it a go.
Maybe start by using a really dilute mixture, and as you get braver, add more colour.
I haven't done it myself, but I'm always doing similar things.

I'd go for insurance.

youtu.be/OQx_bdx60XY
This may help, and there are lots of others.
You can also buy fabric paint cheaply on eBay and Amazon.
I've just painted some cushions and it worked.

Just saw the name of the dye and found this
youtu.be/7kw-qtuBPU8

If all else fails, could you buy a rug to cover stain?

Insurance - look at your policy for contents insurance. You might be able to claim but I'm uncertain.

A spilt curry stained my carpet badly. Helpful call to insurance company told to me have the area professionally cleaned (£60 so well within the excess) and if not satisfactory I should get back to them and they'd replace it. I do have additional accident cover on my policy.
The cleaning worked well for me so I didn't have the upheaval!
Well worth a call before you try DIY methods. Good luck!

Insurance the first choice, you can only ask
A new carpet if the finances allow next, as a last resort a rug over the stain.
No harm trying to get a dye to match, definitely no guarantees on that

Not all insurance covers damage caused by pets.

Worth paying the extra premium for accidental accident cover. Mine includes pets although I have none but family do, so several doggy visitors!

Put the cost of the dye and the almost certain purchase of a rug towards a new carpet. Perhaps go for a less expensive carpet if budget USA problem?

Sorry, posted too soon. (I do miss an edit function)

Even if you’re covered by insurance, they are likely to take into account the fact that, though with the best intentions, you’ve made the problem worse. There must be a possibility that professional carpet cleaning at the outset would have removed the stain.

Which reminds me of the firm Rainbow International which our insurance company sent in to clean up after a very dirty and messy break in and who brought our carpets up like new. Our family now has them in whenever carpet cleaning is needed because their costs are very reasonable. It’s a national franchise I think.

Thanks for all your speedy replies and very helpful responses.

We checked our household insurance which includes accidental damage, but only covers professional cleaning services. DH agrees they'd probably refuse our claim as I tried to clean it myself and, as you say, made it worse. I think he just doesn't want to make a claim as we have never ever claimed for anything.

MissAdventure Thank you for the dye videos. I had not thought about spraying the dye on, that might be the way to go. What have I got to lose, just exchanging a pale patch for a darker one. I think it's worth a try.

Fortunately I already have a rug which goes well with the carpet and wouldn't look out of place. So if my efforts at dyeing fail I have that as a backup.

I'll let you know what happens - good or bad.

Forgot to mention: my husbands first instinct was to cut the damaged area out and patch a piece in (we do have some spare pieces), we did that many years ago when my Mum burned a big hole in one of our carpets - don't ask!!. It's not the easiest thing to do, or at least do well, so I'll keep it as a last resort.

Sorry to hear about your carpet, Not all types of carpet fiber can be dyed. Only wool or nylon fibers are dyeable. To test your carpet, carefully burn a fiber sample. You cannot dye a carpet to a lighter color.

I am the owner of rugler. Rugler is the carpet industry and i Know these types of issues.

Hi tonny001 Thanks for your response.
I know exactly what you mean. Though as a carpet professional you probably cringe when you hear of people doing what I did and then trying to correct it! But sometimes needs must.

I often dye fabrics for craft projects with various dyes and get varying (interesting?) results depending on the fibre of the fabric, so I certainly wasn't expecting great results or for the mark to disappear. But restoring any colour to it would have been an improvement.

Having said that.... it has worked to a degree.
I used Rit general purpose liquid dyes, 3 colours mixed in very small quantities, sprayed onto the damp carpet and rubbed in. When it was dry I used my carpet washer to lift any surplus dye from the surface and blend the edges better where it meets the original colour. It's by no means perfect but it is now a blue-grey colour rather than the very obvious pale cream/grey colour it was. Definitely an improvement. Anyone seeing it now would probably say "Oh did you spill something on your carpet?" rather than "OMG what happened to your carpet!" I can live with it. And when we have guests staying I'll drop a rug over it! No doubt over time all the carpet will fade and change colour anyway. It was an interesting experiment and I learned a lot from it - mainly keep a better eye on the dog!!

I'd buy a new carpet.
Do you have accidental damage cover on your contents insurance ? as it may cover it. I doubt they'd claim the dog did it on purpose but I don't know I've never claimed on my contents policy but could be worth a go.
There as really good quality stain proof carpets available these days. I have one and it's fabulous.

Don't really want to change the carpet because the same carpet runs throughout the house and I'm not sure it's still available now. It's OK, carpets do get stained, damaged, whatever..... it's not a big deal to me.

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