Help! Smashed a bottle of TCP on carpet

[ohgoditsawful]

Oh god, the smell is everywhere

Has anyone else managed to get it out of a carpet before? How?

It smashed into a thousand tiny shards which I had to gingerly pick up by tape before I could scrub it, which probably didn't help.

I've scrubbed it, tried bicarbonate of soda overnight.

Someone, help please!

Arrange a nuclear apocalypse? Then the cockroaches will be left with the TCP problem

If you have accidental damage cover on your house contents insurance OP you may be able to claim. Worth checking your policy

@ChiaraRimini that is GENIUS. I think we do, I will look.

Day 3 and we woke up thinking "oh, it's not that bad, maybe the baking power helped". Then we turned the heating on and found out how wrong we were

Sell your house to my mum?
She LOVES the smell of tcp and would find this enchanting.

But if you don't want to move, and don't yet want the hassle of new carpets, you could do the old trick of cutting out the portion of tcp carpet, and then hiding the hole with a rug over the top.

I love the smell of TCP. Perhaps we should do a house swap for 18 months?

I adore the smell of TCP! Sorry, not helpful!

I would say daily bicarb and hoover for a few days. Or unfortunately, a carpet cleaner.

..wondering how you can smash a bottle on a carpet? 🤔

I knocked over a bottle. The smell evaporated. Don’t go overboard with the cleaning.

Wow, how did you find this thread after so long @haventgotadog?! 😁 can't believe it's been a year actually.

It dropped from about waist height onto carpet, and smashed into smithereens everywhere.

The corridor still has a weird smell 😬