To ask you how we can get rid of this smell!?

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The door shelf fell out of the fridge the other day, dropping a bottle of milk which split all over the carpet. Immediately tried to clean it up, and then steamed the carpet. The next day it started to smell, so after googling I found suggestions to use bicarb and let it sit. Tried that, 3 days later the smell is absolutely appalling🤢 anyone got any suggestions or do we just need a new carpet!?

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Oh dear. This happened in our car boot so I do sympathise. I did get rid of it eventually by removing the carpet and washing it in the bath but I'm guessing that's not possible?

I think it will need a professional clean. One of those machines that soaks it and sucks out all the water.

Would be cheaper for a professional clean rather than a new carpet

@dateandtime yes most of the advice online seemed to be for getting it out of cars. Couldn’t bath the carpet as it’s quite big.

I think a carpet cleaner will be the only option, but can’t get any at the moment due to all local places being closed

Professional clean yes. But as an aside, you have a carpet in your kitchen?

Just put of interest, you have carpet in the kitchen? How do you usually keep it clean?

Baking soda solution

I imagine it's soaked through to the underlay, so you may have no choice but to get a new carpet.

As an aside, I'm also curious as to why you have carpet in a kitchen!

If you have biological washing powder that can help as the enzymes breakdown the milk. You need to patch test it first to make sure it doesn’t damage your carpet.

If you do need to get rid of the carpet, I would get something else to replace it. It must be horrendous trying to keep a kitchen carpet clean?

How long did you leave the bicarbonate of soda on? Could it be an option to sprinkle loads on each night and hoover up in the morning for say a week?

My DD had an awful sickness bug when she was about 2. The smell in the carpet was awful and no amount of cleaning/airing the room helped. A couple of nights of bicarb did the job.

White vinegar. Soak it, leave for a while, then clean up. It's my go to for anything smelly and hasn't let me down yet. Also, the vinegar smell disappears as soon as I s dry so don't worry about that either.

I recently did this in the car. Make a solution of white vinegar and water and flood it. Mop up, repeat until vinegar smell goes. Much worse in a black car

No carpet in the kitchen, we have an under counter fridge in the kitchen and then this fridge is in a big fridge freezer out in another room

I second the biological washing powder/liquid and left on for a bit.

Will try the white wine vinegar too, thanks!

My washing machine smells like a dead dog. Can anyone help? I've cleaned the filter, run a 95 hot wash, used some Calgon, run a wash with disinfectant only & it still smells. I've also left the door open for several days. This morning I placed a bowl of zoflora in boiling water inside the drum, it still smells. All help appreciated, I'm getting desperate.

Dishwasher tablets for the washing machine. 4 of them on a hot wash 👍

Baking soda for the milk. Worked for us when we had a similar problem one Christmas. Left it overnight & hoovered the next day.

Dinomom, thanks, I'm off to give it a go.

@Timesdone mine does this every now & then, I think it must be limescale build-up as if I do a 90 wash with some Viakal in dispenser and drum, it goes.

White vinegar and bicarb. Sprinkle the bicard, add a generous helping of vinegar, leave overnight

Happened to me in a car once and I used a Stain Devils product specifically to work on the enzymes in milk (and probably some other things). I was able to get to the underlay so poured it on to both carpet and underlay. Did the trick.

Good luck!

I remember a pint of milk spilt in the footwell of my DFs car once. He tried everything to get rid of the smell without success. In the end he traded the car in. Also DH once had an accident with barrel of home brew in the spare bedroom. I spoke to our insurers to see if I should get the carpets (almost brand new) professionally cleaned. They advised that whilst that would get rid of the stain it would never eradicate the smell completely. They paid for a replacement carpet.
I think the only solution is a new carpet.

I would buy some of the stuff that gets puppy accidents out of carpets. It has enzymes which eat biological stains , and milk is just a bodily fluid after all, and is designed for carpets. The £2 stuff from Tesco is very good.

Don’t add vinegar, it neutralises the bicarb!

Bicarb + vinegar = alkali + acid

Giving off carbon dioxide and leaving salts of sodium (hence the bubbling & fizzing). You’re just wasting the bicarb by adding vinegar.

See GCSE chemistry