Look, quit the crap ...
She is my 90 year old neighbor whose daughter I went to high school with committed suicide in her house 2 weeks ago. There is high velocity blood splatter [spray drops] on the carpet ...
Do a search on home remedies blood wool carpet cleaning. Although I seem to recall that Resolve Spray worked well on blood on our carpeting - but it is synthetic. Vinegar, peroxide, things like that.
The old gal may have an old container of Fels Naptha (sp?) laying around. Like my 93 year old mother “Don’t use too much - you can’t buy that stuff anymore!” I tried to explain because its a pretty bad cancer-causer, but at 93 who cares! (And it can’t be THAT bad as she’s been using it all her life.)
And condolences as you help your neighbor through a difficult time. I can’t imagine.
Blood spatters are tough. Especially in wool. The proteins in blood bind with the curly long-chain proteins in wool.
I've got an OD green wool sweater that was once soaked in blood that came clean (enough), soaking in woolite and cold water.
It still has a hole in it.
Some stuff sucks. Didn't mean to pile on.
/johnny
I found this Quick N Brite http://www.quicknbrite.com/index.php (caution, they have a very loud video that starts up when you go to their site) stuck way back in my cabinet the other day when I was looking for something to clean a stain on my carpet, a stain I might add that I’ve been trying to clean for months now. Everything I tried before would make it a bit better but then the stain would come back in a day or so.
So I dragged this Quick N Brite out of the cupboard, it’s been there for 10 years at least, and amazingly, it cleaned the carpet completely. If you’re dealing with splatter, I’d take the Quick N Brite with a damp white terry cloth and work out each stain separately. A secret I’ve found is the push down twist motion (I do this with my foot sometimes) when cleaning. You may not need to use a carpet cleaning machine if you’re just dealing with spots.
However, I once had a wool wall-to-wall carpet that I cleaned with a regular carpet steam cleaner. However, and this was years down the road, I had to have the carpet restretched, don’t know if my cleaning efforts had anything to do with it. Restretching isn’t very expensive though.
And OMG, that poor woman, how is she holding up? And you, how are you doing? Was this completely unexpected?
Personally, I would try cold water and Dawn dish detergent first. I would use a wet vac and that would remove the water immediately so it didn’t spread even more. Please accept my condolences on the death of your friend. I can’t imagine what this 90 year old is going through. Although I don’t need to know details, if there was a tremendous amount of blood, I would be more concerned with pathogens etc... and removal may be necessary if that is the case. You are very kind to help out your neighbor.
If it’s blood, I’m not sure anything will remove the stains.
When it comes to spot-cleaning carpets, though, we’ve found something that has worked 100% of the time is Dawn used in a Bissel Little Green machine. We’ve bought every carpet-specific concoction in the stores, but they’ve only been partially effective.
Now I dilute the concentrated blue Dawn with water to where it can be sprayed easily. I spray the area(s), wait about a half-hour, then spray LOTS of water. Then use the machine to suck the stuff out. Since Dawn is still so concentrated, suds collect in the machine for a while. Keep spraying with water, then vacuum it out, as many times necessary until no more suds.
It works for us with misc. stains — especially pet-related. Never tried with blood, but a new carpet might be in order.
So sorry.