Red wine spillage

[DavesWorld]

Does anyone have any good ideas on removing red wine spills and I mean big spills. We took my son and his friends (8) out for SeaFair and someone brought along some red wine which broke in half---how I don't know.

I called a number of steam cleaning companies but they no longer clean boats.

Thanks

 

[tc410]

Took a wave sideways one time and launched an uncorked bottle of red wine from above the microwave onto the countertop below. The bottle exploded. I had red wine from the headliner, down the walls, on the salon sofa, and all over the carpet. It leaked through the recessed stovetop and into the drawers and cupboards. Now onto the cleanup:

Three treatments of Oxyclean on the carpets. Mr. Clean Magic Eraser on the vinyl headliner, walls and sofa. Worked great, not the faintest sign of such a huge mess.

 

[DavesWorld]

Excellent! I will give this a go tomorrow.

 

[Four Suns]

There is a product you can get at the grocery store called "Spot Shot" in a can. It's in the carpet cleaning supplies area. I spilled a glass of red wine on some fancy schmancy wool carpet at home and that stuff made it dissappear instantly. Amazing stuff....

 

[RollerCoastr]

As soon as I read the title of this thread I thought, "SPOT SHOT!", but I forgot how competitive Gary is... :smt038

Every boat that carries red wine should carry Spot Shot.

 

[sbw1]

Does anyone have any good ideas on removing red wine spills.....

You probably know that Club Soda does a good job with red wine on white carpets. You have to use it at the time of the spill. You flood the spill area with Soda and use a clean white towell to blot it up untill it's all gone. We used to keep 2-3 large bottles on our boats when we had white carpet. Everything is teak and holly now so it's less of an issue. That said, we discourage red wine on board because it can be such a disaster when something like you described happens.

 

[VTSeaRay]

Spot Shot is incredible on carpet cleaning!!! I've only seen a few things it can't touch! Much better than Resolve, or any other carpet cleaning solution I've tried. I've now seen it in a pump bottle too.

-VtSeaRay

 

[rbihn2]

We have had many successes cleaning red wine with Spot Shot including older stains - keep a can on board all season (Sam's Club). Also - while we are away from the dock - we switched to the small personal wine bottles with the caps that screw back on - helps reduce risk. At the dock - we use the standard bottles.

 

[DavesWorld]

I emptied a bottle of Spot on the stains and it worked pretty well but there are still two areas which are persistent. I can either get another can of spot or start in a Oxyclean treatment---any idea which one I should try?

 

[RollerCoastr]

You'll want more Spot Shot anyway, so that would be the direction I'd go.

If you have to resort to a highly concentrated Oxyclean treatment, be aware that contrary to their advertising claims, Oxyclean CAN lighten color.

 

[Drama Queen]

I would go with the oxyclean but try it somewhere it won't show first to see if it will lighten your carpet. It will work on the wine, that's for sure, but rc's right it might lighten the color.

 

[Pirate]

Wine Away is simply amazing at what it can remove. It also works on blueberries smeared into white carpet by your neighbor's 3 year old doing.... 'blueberry angels'. Little b*stard.

Wine Away will clean it up fresh or dried.