Handyman Tip - Candle Wax Cleanup

Al Carrell: There's an old saying that goes "A romantic dinner without candlelight is like a kiss without a moustache". But after the romantic dinner, what if you end up with candle drippings on the carpet, like this? I'm going to show you how to take care of getting rid of that stuff. The old-time method is to take an iron that's moderately warm, put something over the spot where you're going to be covering it with something that's very absorbent, and then run the iron back and forth there. It melts the wax and the blotter or whatever you have here is going to absorb it. The only problem there is that sometimes you melt the wax and it spreads it out. So the better way is to a Baggie, and put some ice cubes in there, and hold the ice cubes down against the wax. What this does, the cold makes the wax get very, very brittle. And when it does get brittle, you can come in with something like a spoon, or something that's not sharp, and you can actually start raking that stuff up, and it comes off pretty quickly.

Incidentally, you have the wax that gets on your table, do the same thing with the ice cubes, and then take a credit card and start scrapping on there. You don't want to use anything sharp, just put it down flat and you'll be able to get the wax off of there. I know what you're thinking. "What about the candlestick?" Well, just take it, put it in the sink, fill up the sink with hot water, and it will melt all the wax. Now you can have that romantic dinner with candlelight without worrying about the after effects.

Episode 017 1995 - 96 Season

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