Born2Sew

Almost all dishwasher liquid has bleach in it. Believe me, I read all the labels on them. I gave up on liquid and just use powder, but my daughter still uses liquid. We don't buy any of the liquid that contains bleach, as we don't want bleach going in the septic system..

So sorry this happened to your carpet. Wishing you well on the repair job, whatever you decide to do on it.

amma

I think that is what the "antibacterial" is in dishsoaps now...

I hope that one of these solutions works for you :D:D:D
Just look at that face.... I could never stay mad at her... :wink:

Up North

Will your house insurance cover it? My Girl fiends Nephew spilled bleach in her dining room and the insurance replaced her carpet in the whole house as it was all the same.

clem55

No dish detergent stain here, but when DGS was about two, he go ahold of my coral nail polish, opened it and applied it as lipstick!! All I could think was to get it off his mouth, he dropped the bottle, and it went on my new white carpet!! Carpet shop cut the stain out, added a piece of carpet I had kept ( was I physic?????) . Good as new!! Word to the wise, always keep piece of new carpeting!!

Debbie B

Lisa, my husband & I have a carpet cleaning & dyeing company. We don't think that the liquid soap bleached your carpet. (Unless the dish soap had bleach in it) Our suggestion is for you to call a professional carpet cleaning company to get the soap out. If by chance it has been bleached out they can either dye it or patch the carpet. You'd have to have extra carpet to match for patching. But we feel if it's just plain dishsoap that cleaning will get the rest of the soap out. Good luck!

Pam B

Lisa, I would follow Debbie's advice before you do anything. If that does not work, you certainly can have carpet people replace a small area, if you have some extra carpet or a place (like in a closet) that you would be ok with having removed.

This reminds me...18 years ago (wow, hard to believe it has been that long) we had all new carpet put in our house, downstairs and up, over the course of 2 days. Later in the evening on a Sat. night, I noticed our youngest DD (who was about 2ish at the time) had something bright orange on her...looking closely, I discovered it was orange paint (from my painting days). She had tracked it up the stairs and into the landing at the top. Yep, bright orange paint on my beautiful brand-new beige carpet! We ended up calling friends who own a paint/wallpaper store and they were able to get it off of the steps...however, the biggest mess of it was on the landing and they just couldn't get it to come out. Luckily, we had extra carpet leftover so the following week the installers came and cut out the ruined part and replaced it. One cannot tell where that part is, at all. That night was the closest I have ever come to 'abusing' my child...I was so mad, I was shaking!!!! It was not funny then but we all laugh about it now!!!!

raptureready

Maybe it isn't really bleached but just has a soapy/sudsy residue left in the carpet----that would make it look a lot lighter and looked "bleached." I'd just try shampooing the carpet without adding any shampoo to the water before doing anything drastic on it.

Lisa

Thank you all for your ideas. I am going to shampoo it before I try to dye it. It is definitely bleached out. It's a dark green carpet and now everywhere the soap fell the carpet is an off white/yellowish color. I like the sharpe idea but I will have to see if I can get one the right color, if not then after I shampoo it, I'm going in for the dye job. After these 2 grandkids I need to just replace the carpet in the den but I'm trying to hold out and get the den and 2 of the bedrooms replaced at the same time. I think I'll just try to do it myself until then, worst case scenerio it will look better than it does now. Thanks for your advice........and yes, she is too sweet to stay mad at for too long!

Debbie B

I always have people call me and ask if they can spot dye their carpet with Rit dye. And I always ask them to call me back to tell me how it turns out...they never do. So, if you do use Rit or some type of fabric dye (the Sharpie for that matter) please let me know how it turns out. It sounds like the dishsoap definitely had bleach in it. I wish you lots of luck! And your granddaughter is beautiful.

craftybear

that is terrible, I hope you can get the carpet repaired