SPILLED DRINKS

Fruit juice stains

• fruit juice cause problem stains because of the residue they leave especially dark colour fruit such as red berry and blackcurrants.If they are allowed to dry it become very difficult to remove and unless treated carefully will leave a permanent mark.

Fresh stains

• Clothes rinse under cold running water until as much of the mark as possible is removed. Treat any colour with methylated spirt or a stain remover.
• Carpet Blot with paper towel. Rub the area with the laundary prewash stick and leave for a few minutes.Rinse off and blot off and shampoo.Treat any remaining colour with methylated spirit.

Furniture sponge with cold water and blot dry. Use a liquid stain remover.

TEA ,COFFEE AND COCOA STAINS

These stains tend to be the combination of the colouring of the drink and grease from any milk added.Blot the whole stain initailly, then attack the grease and then use a methood to get rid of the colours.

Tea stains that have been dried require sepertae treatment.

ON FABRIC

FRESH TEA STAINS

Rinse stain in lukewarm water then soak in a borax solution.Rinse stain on blanket at once on warm water then launder. Rinse table linen immediately under a cold water, then soak and launder.

COFFEE AND COCOA

Rinse in warm water Soak in a biologiacl detergents Solution or in laundary borax solution

DRIED TEA STAINS

1 Drape the stains item over a bowl or basin and sprinkle with laundary borax until the whole stain is thickly covered.

2 Pour a kettle full of hot water arround the stains working toward the centre.Repeat treatment if necessary.

ON CARPET

Black coffee and cocoa

Sponge the stain repeatedly with tepid water or flush it several time with soda syphon, then blot

TEA

Blot with a paper towel then sponge with a tepid water.Use a little carpet shampoo and use an aerosol stain remover when dry.

ON FURNITURE

Black Coffee

Blot sponge if necessary, shampoo.Lubricate dry stain with a glycerine solution.

Rinse and blot well.Use an aerosol stain remover on any remaining remover.

Tea

Sponge with a laundary borax solution then wipe with a damp cloth.When dry use an aerosol stain remover.