Spray starch and carpet
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Spray starch and carpet
I have just started using spray starch and I was wondering if the overspray from the spray starch will damage or make my carpet sticky or hard underneath my ironing board? DH suggested putting a plastic table cloth under my ironing board but I really don't want to put one under it if i don't need to.
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Sue
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Sue
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I have carpet in my sewing area, and starch like crazy... it dries to a powder and vacuums up with no trace. Just to prove it to yourself spray a piece of paper .. let it dry and see how it reacts. Starch never truly goes into solution or dissolves, it is mostly suspended. That's why it will "fall" out when the fabric is handled or manipulated. Think about a shirt that has been starched ... at the elbow or any area that is bent or folded repeatedly will no longer be stiff.
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I've used spay starch (of several different brands) on things on my ironing board for years and years and never had a problem with anything getting sticky, either what I was spraying, or what was over sprayed, or under the board. I have a hardwood floor where my ironing board is located. I sweep and wash the floor and find nothing untoward under the ironing board (well, a lot of thread pieces!).
If you pour a bottle of liquid starch over your carpet it would get hard-- because I've made doilies into lace bowls using the liquid starch. (Soak a doily in liquid starch, then drape it over an upside down bowl-- when dry, remove, and the doily will be in a hard shape the same as the bowl. You can also do this project using a highly concentrated dissolved sugar and water solution.) Perhaps your question arises from the idea of what liquid starch can do in comparison to what spray starch can do...
If you pour a bottle of liquid starch over your carpet it would get hard-- because I've made doilies into lace bowls using the liquid starch. (Soak a doily in liquid starch, then drape it over an upside down bowl-- when dry, remove, and the doily will be in a hard shape the same as the bowl. You can also do this project using a highly concentrated dissolved sugar and water solution.) Perhaps your question arises from the idea of what liquid starch can do in comparison to what spray starch can do...
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