Bicarb on carpets to get rid of smells?

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How much do you need to use? And how long do you have to leave it for? Is it good?

Sprinkle on a whole tub (its cheap)

Leave overnight if poss

Hoover

It's like eco Shake and Vac

I use it on vomit I get the worst of it up and give the carpet a scrub spinkle very liberally all over and leave for at least 4 hrs , ideally until its dried, then hoover up.

SO is the carpet meant to be wet or dry when you do it?

Dry- otherwise it will make a paste

Depending on how big the patch is that you want to deodorise, make a thin paste of enough bicarb & water, rub it in with a clean cloth, leave it to dry, then vac out.

It really does work

Ah! 2 completly different answers!

only sort of

dry carpet, wet bicarb in my case.

(You're lucky to get only 2 different answers on MN )

Out of complete lazinest, I am going to try the dry bicarb tonight and if it doesn't work, then I will do the wet. Only because there is quite a large area to do and it will only take 2 mins to sprinkle it on dry and I have back ache and can't be doing with bending down.

But I will defo do the wet if the smell doesn't go away with the dry. It isn't actually a strong smell now anyway, I have got rid of the worst already.

Thank you very much!

Does this really work? My entire carpet honks after the windows were left open and it got wet. As it dried it started to smell and I cannot think how to get rid of it! I know that washing it will most likely make it worse and I hate the smell of things like shakenvac which just apply perfume over the top IMO. I have been racking my brains for ages for a solution.

(sorry to hijack BTW!)

Seems to have worked for us! Put it all on last night, hoovered this morning and no smell. Hoping it lasts. Even if you have to do it a couple of times it should do the trick for you. You will probably need a few pots but they are only about 50p each so you won't be looking at much. I used 1 pot for the bottom of my stairs (4 large steps) and one pot for the area at the bottom

that is great thanks! I will stick it on the shopping list to do at the weekend!