0 Considering that a third of your life is spent on your mattress, it is no surprise that there are stains to clean from time to time. This is a guide about cleaning stains on a mattress.6 Articles All Articles RelevanceAll ArticlesSolutionsQuestionsArchivesNewestOldestMost HelpfulLeast HelpfulMost AnswersFewest AnswersBest AnswersRelevanceSolutionsThis guide contains the following solutions. Have something to add? Please share your solution!Tip: By Lee S.1 FlagPour on hydrogen peroxide on the stain, and immediately scrub with towel. Let dry and reapply if needed. My mattress took two treatments. By Lee S. from LA Comment QuestionsHere are the questions asked by community members. Read on to see the answers provided by the ThriftyFun community or ask a new question.Question: By lulu0 FlagDoes any one know how to get stains out of a mattress? The mattress in my spare room is still new, but it was stained by a guest I had recently. I have tried everything I know, but none worked. By Lulu from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Answer By Myrna Flag0Blood stains?
Undiluted peroxide Oily stains? Try a good degreaser Urine stains? Wash well with enzyme pet stain remover. Another types of stains, I don't know. Reply By Susan Hall Flag0Clean it the best you can and then buy an inexpensive mattress cover to prevent it from happening again. Reply By Susan Flag0This takes a while, and is kind of drastic, but it worked. I have a SpotBot, and I set it on a terrible blood stain on a mattress and let it run through a tough stain cycle. then put a fan over the bed until it dried (2 days).If you don't have a spotbot, I would suggest a upholstery attachment on a carper cleaner, then thorough drying.Reply Question: By Alice0 FlagHow can I get oil stains out of my mattress? I placed a bottle top on my bed and the lotion came from the top and left a bad oil stain. I used a degreaser and the stain is still there. By AliceRelated Content Answer Flag0Try using Resolve. It removes oodles of types of stains. Reply Question: 0 FlagHow do you clean marks from a mattress?
By M Answer ArchivesThriftyFun is one of the longest running frugal living communities on the Internet. These are archives of older discussions.Archive: 0 FlagHow do I get not only a stain out, but I need to make the stain ring also go away on a pillow top mattress. Every time I go to clean it with a product and it dries, it just leaves a bigger ring. Please help, because this mattress is brand new. By Tuckmomma from Somerset, KYAnswers:Cleaning a Stain Off a MattressTry using a carpet cleaner with the upholstery attachment, I think you need to suck out the dirt. I add a little laundry soap when I do my couch. By leekelly Comment Archive: 0 Flag I have a fairly expensive mattress that is about 18 months old. In spite of using a mattress pad, I've discovered a soiled area on it and don't know the best way of spot cleaning a mattress. I am not sure what the soil is, but I do have dogs that occasionally forget they are not allowed on the bed. I'm sure it's not dog feces or urine but it could possibly be vomit and someone in the household tried to clean it up and didn't tell Mom.
It doesn't have an odor. Nancy from Fort Smith, AR Answers:Cleaning a Stain Off a MattressTry an enzyme based stain digester, available in the pet section at most stores. I've used OUT cat pee remover on many items and it really works. I also love Beaumont products pet odor eliminator. By LindaCleaning a Stain Off a MattressMedical peroxide is about 2 or 3 for $1.00 at the Dollar Store or cheap deal stores. I have used it on set blood on cloth that has been washed and dried in the dryer and it has lifted it out. On such matter it will fizz until it expands it out of the cloth. After I used this and got it clean I would use an auto seat cleaner like Johnson and Johnson, as it can be used around the house on just about anything. When dry, vacuum the mattress. If you live where it is possible, you could put it outside in the sun to air out and freshen up. By m.b.wrightCleaning a Stain Off a MattressI would soak the area with vinegar to remove any smell. It may take a day or two to dry but I've never had any problems soaking an area with vinegar.
As far as looks, I've found that baby wipes are great at getting stains off of carpet and furniture so I would try it on the spot. You may have to really scrub. I would do it when the mattress is dry. By AnnCleaning a Stain Off a MattressI would try Oxi-Clean. I have used it many times and it always removes my stains. Spray the mattress with it and let it set a little while, then take a damp cloth and rub it a little. The stain should come out. By AnnetteCleaning a Stain Off a MattressSomething that I can suggest when removing the stain, is to make sure that you stand the mattress up, rather than wetting the mattress when it is flat. This prevents the wet soaking deep into the mattress which can then be difficult to dry. By PAULINE LIGHTBOWN ENGLANDCleaning a Stain Off a MattressTry Folex. It is an enzyme based stain remover and odor remover. You can find it at Walmart with the other rug cleaners. It is worth it. It gets out old stains 90% of the time, especially bodily fluids! It got some perspiration stains off mine.
It has a money back guarantee, but it hasn't failed me yet...and I have put it through some nasty tests! By camo_angelsCleaning a Stain Off a MattressI used Resolve Power Stain and Woolite together. I didn't need excessive water, so it dried quickly, and it worked really well, smell and all. By KTCleaning a Stain Off a MattressWhen my grand-baby came home from the hospital I had just gotten a new mattress. I didn't have the zip cover on it yet! But a friend of mine said to rub corn starch into the wet spot, let it dry, and vacuum it off. That has been 10 years ago. I still have the mattress and you would never know it happened. NO stain marks at all. I imagine that being woken in the middle of the night by, say, a cat burglar would be pretty bad, but surely not as horrific as being roused from slumber by a small voice saying, “Mummy, I wet the bed”? The child may as well be saying, “Mummy, the dam has broken and we are under flood.” Get out while you can – night-time wees are huge.
Which is exactly why wet mattresses are just a fact of life. You try to protect the mattress and bedding all you can, but that dam is going to burst at some point. Most kids I know have weed straight through a mattress protector, set of flannel (supposedly super-absorbent) sheets and a Brolly sheet at some point. Mattresses are vulnerable things. Once the river has flown, getting wee out of a mattress requires a three-pronged attack: science, speed and sunlight. You’ll also need two magical wee-busting formulas … There are two things that urine will do to a mattress if left unattended. Within 24 hours the mattress will start to smell like the inside of a men’s public toilet and be warned, once that urinal smell sets in, it’s almost impossible to remove. Add to that the fact that the inside of a mattress, plus moisture makes the ideal breeding ground for mildew and mould and it’s quickly apparent that if you don’t act quickly, you may as well donate the wet mattress to landfill.
To this end, our attack needs to both wick moisture away from the inside of the mattress and neutralise the odour-causing bacteria in the urine. So what we need to build is a two-fold wee-busting kit. Add 2 parts vinegar to 1 part water to your spray bottle. Then add two capfuls of tea tree oil. Mix equal parts Borax and bicarbonate of soda. Much as it pains me to tell you this, you need to get out of bed the minute you hear that the bed has been wet. I’m not suggesting that you launch into a full-scale laundry wash at 2.47am, but to save the mattress you do need to do two things urgently. 1. Get the sheets and covers off the bed immediately. The longer they stay on, the more wee the mattress will most likely absorb. 2. Spray the wet area with a generous dose of wee-busting spray and then lay at least two old towels on top. Layer thick sheets of newspaper on top of the towels and then pile a heap of books on top of the towels. The spray will start to neutralise the urine and the towels will hopefully wick away some of the moisture from the mattress.
The newspaper and books are to give the towels something to read. Just joking – the books will weigh the towels down, forcing the fibres to absorb moisture. The newspaper is there to protect the books from the wee. Tip: Keeping a stash of old towels and a newspaper in your child’s wardrobe might be a good idea. If the night is still young and you are feeling perky, by all means dump the rest of the urine-soaked bedding in a tub of super-hot water with a cup of vinegar and a capful of tea tree oil, but if not, just go back to bed. You can sort the rest out in the morning. If you didn’t manage to get to it in the middle of the night, bright and early next morning is the time to put the bedding into a tub of super-hot water with a cup of vinegar and a capful of tea tree oil. Add the towels that you left on top of the mattress overnight. Leave the lot to soak while you tackle the mattress. Once you’ve tackled the mattress and it’s drying in the sunshine (see below), put the bedding on to wash with the hottest water temperature on offer.
Wash with your usual washing powder plus a cup of the wee-busting powder. Add a cup of the wee-busting spray formula into the ‘fabric softener’ dispenser. Wash on your longest cycle and hang out to dry in the sun for a full day. Drag the mattress outside and lay it down flat somewhere (a deck, a patio, a pathway). Put a fresh towel down on top of it and stomp around a little. The kids are good to employ for this bit (you are standing in wee, after all …). You’re trying to get as much moisture up out of the mattress as possible. Once the towel is no longer absorbing anything new, add it to the soaking sheets in the laundry tub and move on. Next, prop the mattress up on four kitchen chairs (one on each corner) in the sun. You want the mattress flat for this part, but you don’t want to lay the mattress on the floor because you need to allow as much air to circulate around it as possible. Sprinkle the mattress with a generous dose of wee-busting powder. Leave in the sun until the powder is dry (generally a couple of hours, depending on the heat of the sun).
Once dry, vacuum off the powder, spray with the wee-busting spray, sprinkle with wee-busting powder and leave to dry once more. Once dry, vacuum off and (bleeee!) give the mattress a sniff test. Hopefully you won’t need to repeat the spray/powder formula, but by all means, go for it if you have to. Once the urine smell has left the mattress, lift it off the chairs and prop it up on its edge somewhere sunny where air can circulate freely. Leave until completely dry and bring in at bedtime. Actually, if your child can sleep elsewhere for a night, bring the mattress inside at nightfall, sprinkle again with the wee-busting powder and leave overnight. Vacuum in the morning, take the mattress outside, spray with the wee-busting spray and leave to dry all day in the sun.The best-laid plans and all that, right? Because while “Mummy, I wet the bed” is exhausting to hear, “Mummy, I wet the bed” sung to the tune of rainfall is positively depressing. If it’s raining, you’ll also need:
If you can’t get the mattress outside on a sunny day, the next best thing is to create your own heat and air. I’ve heard talk of using a hair dryer to get a urine-soaked mattress dry, but in my book that’s akin to trying to stop Niagara Falls with a bathplug. You need power and might if you’re going to save a mattress. Go through the night-time ‘speed’ steps as above. In the morning, prop the mattress up inside on your four chairs and sprinkle with the wee-busting powder. Set a portable heater up next to a portable fan right by your mattress (make sure you follow the manufacturer’s safety instructions) and turn both on full. Leave until the powder dries then vacuum off the powder, spray with the wee-busting spray, sprinkle with wee-busting powder and leave to dry once more. Repeat until there is no urine smell and the mattress is fully dry. On the first sunny day, take your mattress outside and prop up so air can circulate. Spray with the wee-busting spray and leave in the sunshine to dry completely.