LESLIE: Sandy in Texas is on the line and needs some help with a carpet question. What’s going on?
SANDY: Well, I had a Scentsy, one of those little things that uses hot wax. And my granddaughter knocked the Scentsy over onto the carpet and part of it splashed on my (inaudible at 0:05:36) chair, which is upholstered.
LESLIE: OK.
SANDY: And I didn’t – haven’t done anything yet because I don’t know really how to go about cleaning that.
LESLIE: Good. Well, the first thing you want to do – and this is – it’s kind of an easy fix. You just have to make sure you haven’t already scratched at it or rubbed it or anything. Take a brown paper bag and an iron. And you want to put the iron on a high setting without steam. And put the paper bag over the wax and then iron. And the wax will melt but then stick to the paper bag and you’ll be able to peel it right off.
SANDY: Well, that’s awesome. OK, brown paper bag with a hot iron not on steam.
LESLIE: No steam.
SANDY: Just hot cotton and hold it on there for a few minutes and it will pull it out.
LESLIE: Yeah, you don’t want to sit it on there too long, because you don’t want to burn it through.
SANDY: OK, yeah. Right.
LESLIE: So you want to kind of just hold the brown paper bag, then put the iron on top and then shift it around, moving to a clean part on the bag as you get more of the wax onto the bag. This way you’re not respreading the wax.
TOM: So the bag kind of acts as the absorbing medium here. That’s like the paper towel, right, Leslie?
LESLIE: Exactly.
TOM: It soaks into it. OK, got it. Great trick.
SANDY: That sounds wonderful. Thank you so much.
TOM: You’re welcome, Sandy. Thanks so much for calling us at 888-MONEY-PIT.
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