Vomit in carpet

[MrsMRMM]

My husband went out with friends last week drinking and when he came back was sick everywhere downstairs, particularly in our downstairs loo. Basically all over the carpet in there. I have spent day after day scrubbing with bleach, upholstery cleaners, soda crystals. The cream carpet looks visually amazing but there is still a faint odour particularly noticeable during the mornings and when the heating comes on. It is only Day 5 post vomiting incident so I don't know whether it will go as the carpet fully dries out or if there is anything else I can do? Was feeling triumphant yesterday thinking I had got rid of it but when I came down this morning and got a faint whiff I am feeling despondent all over again. Will I ever be able to invite friends over again! Any advice or tips welcome. On a separate matter, would you be mad with your husband if this happened? Does anyone else ever have to put up with things like this happening?!

You want magic bicarb

Either sprinkle it on dry, or make a wet solution with water & scrub it in - leave for a few hours, then hoover out.

It’s amazing!

(Yes I would be mad btw. Adults should be able to miss the carpet)

Carpet in a loo is pretty gross though. Could you get rid altogether & have vinyl instead?

I would be angry. However, if you get some enzymatic/microbiological cleaner (the type that’s meant for pet urine etc) and absolutely saturate the area, it will eat up the horrible smell. I can’t recommend a brand because i’m not in the UK, but they’ll have it in pet shops and on amazon.

I'd be furious and there's no way I'd have been cleaning it up! That's absolutely disgusting.

What's he said and done about it?

If someone was ill I'd have no problem cleaning up (well i would hate it but I would be nice about it) as I do with kids and pets. But an adult drinking too much? I don't know if I could respect them again.

Why oh why do people have carpet in the loo?

You have to soak the carpet and underlay, and leave to dry completely- no hoovering or wiping.

You need to leave it to dry out completely - once it is dry if you can still smell it I would suggest trying a biological washing powder or maybe just getting a new carpet / flooring

Bit off point but why the fuck isn't he dealing with this?

Thanks everyone. Yes carpet in loo points - fair point - it was a new carpet there when we moved in 3 years ago - and maybe this is the time to rip it out and have a hard floor put in! I thought I'd do that before toilet training my children but it seems like husbands drinking is the trigger for it instead 🤦‍♂️ So yes I was and am very mad about it all. I have a 4 and 2 year old and am 6 months pregnant and could do without the constant bleach inhalation and scrubbing on my knees that I have been doing over the past few days. He did have a go at it (I sent him in first!) but he is rubbish at cleaning and call me a control freak but if I want something done properly like this then i know i need to do it myself. And I do it myself because I want my 4 year old to be able to use the downstairs loo again which she has refused to until yesterday as she could still smell it. I do it myself because I'm desperately trying to run a normal family household for my children. Sadly this isn't the first time is has happened, but it is infrequent. Usually when he goes out drinking I insist he stays with friends which usually works as his friends live far and wide. Sadly he has made a few local friends lately so that brings it back to my doorstep. How bad is it that I am regretful he has some local friends?! He doesn't go out often (probably once every 2 or 3 weeks) and usually it is okay but I am always on tenterhooks when he is out following a few bad experiences with him in the past, mainly pre-children. There have been a few incidences since we had our children but usually at someone elses house and even though I went really mad at him maybe I haven't been exposed to it quite as much as last week. I was on the verge of a panic attack though when I heard him come in last Thurs and the stench of vomit filled the house. Thankfully Id put the stair gates on and set up sofa bed so knew he wouldn't come up but I peeped down the stairs to see him lying in the hallway in a pool of vomit. It was awful I was so scared and worried - I went to check he was breathing and things. Then went back to bed to comfort my daughter who had come through to my bed with the commotion. I obviously played it down to her but was trembling like a leaf. Anyway the next day he was apologetic but asked me not to overreact that he'd "just been a bit sick"... Overstatement of the century. I was up at 6 scrubbing the floors in the kitchen and hallway as it seemed to have been walked over the entire ground floor and I wanted to make it decent enough for the kids to come down for their rice krispies! I have been so cross but I don't know what to do. Aside from the drinking episodes he is a good husband and father. I've asked him to stop drinking which he says he will think about. He tells me often he is very sociable and his friends are very important to him. I tell him being sociable is not a quality I object to in the slightest it is literally just the drinking. 😢

By the sounds of it he has a drink problem and doesn't know when to stop. Has he done this in other people's homes too? No wonder they send him back home now!

Thinking about it is not enough. He is minimising the problem.

What about something that removes enzymes like dog urine cleaner? May be worth a shot. Worked for split milk for me

That sounds really horrible for you. For the carpet I’d suggest Dr Beckmann. It smells nice and worked for me when DS was sick everywhere.
Not sure what to suggest about the husband. 🙁

Thanks. Yes I think you're right. I've not started a thread before I'm finding it so helpful getting input from others. I can't talk to anyone else about this and am frequently told by him I overreact (and I'm all ears if people think I am being ott in my annoyance). Not that I'm being annoyed with him anymore he says I've been hard enough on him but I suppose I want to clarify what stance I take next time he wants to go out and I know it's only a matter of time.

It's just basic courtesy not to inflict your bodily fluids on the home you share with your family.

It's not a normal thing - I've never done this or had my DH do this. The only friend this happened to became an alcoholic who now no longer drinks at all.

Teenagers may do this at a party but a father in the family home? Disgusting.

I'd suggest he needs to talk to someone about reducing his intake and I'd seriously give him hell about it every day until he did!

As for going out again - no chance!

When you wet carpet the carpet soaks up the moisture and it just sits there, like water at the bottom of a damp bath sponger. What you need to to is draw out the moisture (including the vomit residue). I would wash the area with a weak solution of bio washing powder then put a thick wadge of kitchen roll over the top, then an old towel and something heavy (like a big book) on top. Keep changing the kitchen roll every few hours if you can until the kitchen roll stops absorbing moisture. Its a faff but it does work, I have successfully removed red wine and cola using this method.

When the carpet is 100% dry sprinkle liberally with bicarb of soda, leave overnight and hoover up.

If this doesnt work then you either need to hire a carpet cleaner or cut your losses and bin the carpet. The longer the vomit has been left in the carpet the harder it will be to get it all out.