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carpet cleaning
is there an efficient carpet cleaning service that won't ask any questions if there's a lot of blood stains in the rugs?
| | [Currently Unknown] (mister_normal) wrote in b0st0n, |
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Rug Cleaner
You can always rent a rug steamer and do it yourself. I wouldn't ask questions, but I'd charge a pretty penny. :) Good luck in your stain removal adventures!October 27 2007, 15:28:07 UTC 4 years ago
Re: Rug Cleaner
I don't think that's a good idea. Bloodstains tend to "set" when exposed to heat -- effectively, the steam will cook the stain in.October 26 2007, 23:41:36 UTC 4 years ago
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Your only real hope is that, if it's, say, white wall-to-wall carpeting, that you pour a whole bunch of hydrogen peroxide on it, and wet/dry vac it up. And even that will only make the stain less prominent.
I guess you could dye the rest of the rug maroon or something to hide it. But, in general, your options are "live with it" or "replace it."
Me, I've mainly had to deal with bloodstains on clothing, and I either threw out the article of clothing, or just kept it if it was something that I could wear bloodstained without a problem. Like work pants, for instance -- I'm enough of a klutz that most of my work pants end up with SOME blood on them sometime.
That's one of the reasons that, as a bartender, I always wear black pants and a black vest -- doesn't show blood.
October 27 2007, 18:38:28 UTC 4 years ago
October 27 2007, 19:15:14 UTC 4 years ago
But, here's what I think: I think, in that situation, you cut yourself badly, or invite some Voudounistas over for a goat sacrifice, or something like that, to get a legitimate reason to have blood on the rug, and then you pour alcohol all over the mess, after doing your best to clean it up, to denature proteins enough to mess up DNA traces.
It has, apparently, been possible to distinguish fresh goat's blood from fresh human blood since the early 1900s, and I assume that it's, nowadays, possible to distinguish animal from human blood even when it's dried. But I wonder if enough dentaturing would hide even that.
Actually, I suspect that, at this point, we're back to steam-cleaning. You denature DNA by rapidly heating it to boiling-temperature. If you do that fast enough, it might be possible, I suppose, to actually BREAK the chain, or at least warp it enough to make it unrecognizable. And steam-cleaning, while it won't get out bloodstains, would still be a logical enough thing to do to TRY to get out bloodstains that it wouldn't raise red flags.
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