Emulsion paint
A polymer that dried into the fibre — and the trade sequence for it is entirely aqueous, with no solvent step at all.
Precautions
- Test on an inconspicuous area first
- Never mix with other cleaning products
- Ventilate the area
In detail
Dried emulsion paint is a cured polymer film wrapped around carpet fibres, so the natural assumption is that it needs a solvent, the way ink and oil do. The carpet trade's entry does not use one. Its sequence is a weak detergent solution, a lukewarm rinse, a proprietary spot removal kit followed closely to its own directions, an ammonia solution, and then a professional cleaner for what remains. That absence is the finding. The same database reaches for a dry-cleaning solvent readily for oil, ink, lipstick and gum, and declines to here — and CleaningHQ does not supply the reason, because the entry does not give one. What travels with the sequence are the standing cautions: never a stronger detergent concentration, never a laundry detergent of any type because they may contain optical brighteners, never an automatic dishwashing detergent because many contain bleaching agents, and a hidden-area test before ammonia because it can cause a colour change. The honest summary is that this is a stain the trade expects to escalate: professional cleaning appears in the sequence rather than after it.
Hacks and claims involving this
- Rinsing paint brushes outside with a hose Does not work
Sources for this page
Sources
Spot Solver: spot and spill removal procedures
The Carpet and Rug Institute (CRI) · Trade or professional body
Relied on for: That dried latex paint is treated with a detergent solution, a lukewarm rinse, a spot removal kit, an ammonia solution and then professional cleaning, that no solvent step is named, that laundry and automatic dishwashing detergents are excluded, and that ammonia can cause a colour change so a hidden area must be tested. (states this directly)
Verification: a person has read the passage relied on.
Read on — Sprints 5-10 read fifteen entries stain by stain. Sprint 30 enumerated the database from the publisher's own spot-solver sitemap — 296 entries — and read 134 more, chosen by open demand and by soil class rather than alphabetically, plus the generic 'Unknown' entry. 135 of 296 entries now read. Supports the claim as stated.
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