I have dropped a load of brown macetic silicone sealer on our cream coloured carpet!! oops.

Anyone know of a way of getting it out without resorting to scissors?

buy a new table? move the sofa.

call your insurance company, i walked PU on my carper from the front door to the kitchen lol..

try white spirit, i had best luck with that.

i'll give white spirit a go.

It's in the bedroom - don't ask.

Problem is I have the same carpet throughout so getting a match would be a problem.

You can try various solvents but in my experience the best option is to buy a rug to cover it up.....

Liquid nitogen.
Pour some on, hit it with a hammer and hoover the bits up before it thaws. Works for chewing gum.

Screwfix sell some stuff to desolve it:-

http://www.screwfix.co.uk/cats/A336165/Sealants-Adhesives/Sealants/Sealant-Remover

Is it in a wormy shaped blob and sitting on top of the pile? Might be best to let it go off then remove as much as possible in one go.

Acetone works on PU. Not sure about silicon based stuff. Ive seen silicon remover in B&Q before.

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Originally posted by Hammerhead

It's in the bedroom - don't ask.

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I'll give the screwfix stuff a go.

Thanks for the input guys.

It was in the bedroom because I was sealing a perspex panel over the open fireplace to stop the wind blowing in. Nothing mucky.

I once pushed a piano through our two hours old carpet. The castor fell off and I ripped a nice hole in the carpet.
I used a very sharp Stanley knife to cut around a saucer and took a piece from under the sofa and cut the same sized hole around the same saucer where the rip was. It was over a year before SWMBO discovered the cover-up when a perfect circle of carpet dissappeared up the Dyson.

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Originally posted by owelly
I once pushed a piano through our two hours old carpet. The castor fell off and I ripped a nice hole in the carpet.
I used a very sharp Stanley knife to cut around a saucer and took a piece from under the sofa and cut the same sized hole around the same saucer where the rip was. It was over a year before SWMBO discovered the cover-up when a perfect circle of carpet dissappeared up the Dyson.

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is it mastic or silicon sealer??

i worked for chemdry when i was young and the only thing i could not get out was gloss paint on a carpet.
i would try freezing a bit in your freezer then hit it with a hammer if it works then buy this ,it will work if it works on the test pice of silicon in the freezer

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/12-x-300ml-Tin-freeze-Spray-Chewing-Gum-Remover_W0QQitemZ370019458187QQihZ024QQcategoryZ11702QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewIt em

You need to try and get it off withough making it to wet if that makes sense. It wil spread and make it worse..

Try freezing it. My dad who is a carpet man got me some proper solvent that gets anything off carpet when i had some little bits of black silicon and oil on my light grey carpet. Worked a treat but there wasnt any big bits. Its stuff they use for insurance jobs and doesnt really get wet. Maybe go in a carpet shop and ask?? I would send you some in the post but its a bit potent and dont want to risk it.

good blast with co2 fire extinguisher to freeze it then scrap it with a plastic windscreen scraper while you lass holds the pipe from the hoover over it!