Removing chewing gum from carpets

Flavia Perugini <fperugini [at] mountvernon__org> writes

>We have a serious problem with chewing gum being dropped by visitors
>onto the modern carpets in our buildings.  Several attempts to
>remove the gum have been made but we are still looking for the best
>method and material. ...

When I was working as a janitor (working my way through school) the
common practice to remove chewing gum was rubbing alcohol rubbed
into the carpet.

Benjamin Cohen
Certified and Registered Sofer StaM/Scribe/Baal Mageah, rabbi,
artist


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