A Wet Seat

HOLD THE PRESSES!!!!! Wet from what? You mention fast food napkins...
so is it spilled cola? Spilled coffee? Milkshake? If so you really
don't want it to simply dry. You do have to pop that baby out, but if
it's anything with protein, fat (like from cream or milk), or sugar,
you gotta get it CLEANED. Take it to a good carpet cleaning place (not
just one of those "anybody can have a carpet cleaning company" type
places. Have it cleaned from the underside. Otherwise, that stuff will
keep leaching to the surface (and your clothes). My kid spilled a
glass of ice tea and didn't say anything until after it had dried. For
several years I kept cleaning that spot. When I was done it looked
great. But, as it dried, the spot returned because re-wetting the
stuff in the stuffing tended to reactivate it.

On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 23:11:22 -0500, darrenthornton DeleteThis @webtv.net (Darren
Thornton) wrote:

 > I should know the answer to this one. But some problems could have
 >several solutions. Which one is the best?
 > Somehow a spot in the back seat got wet. I occasionally have to sit
 >back there. Believe me, it is cold and wet! Most of the time, there is
 >no towel in the car. Those fast food napkins can only do so much. How
 >can I get the seat to dry up once and for all? The moisture appears to
 >be deep.
 >
 > Sincerely,
 > Darren Thornton

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"Spike" <jma.RemoveThis@snowcrest.net> wrote in message
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| HOLD THE PRESSES!!!!!

You always wanted to say that... didn'tcha Spike!

Wet from what? You mention fast food napkins...
| so is it spilled cola? Spilled coffee? Milkshake? If so you really
| don't want it to simply dry. You do have to pop that baby out, but if
| it's anything with protein, fat (like from cream or milk), or sugar,
| you gotta get it CLEANED. Take it to a good carpet cleaning place (not
| just one of those "anybody can have a carpet cleaning company" type
| places. Have it cleaned from the underside. Otherwise, that stuff will
| keep leaching to the surface (and your clothes). My kid spilled a
| glass of ice tea and didn't say anything until after it had dried. For
| several years I kept cleaning that spot. When I was done it looked
| great. But, as it dried, the spot returned because re-wetting the
| stuff in the stuffing tended to reactivate it.


The Spikster is pretty much right. Being a fella and all that.

If it's just wet from water, once you take the seat out, lay it on the
floor, get some terry cloth towels, lay them on the wet area and then press
firmy to help get the residual moisture out.
A shop vac might help but may not get as deeply as the compression of your
foot pressing the foam flat.

I it's sticky, you CAN clean it, but it's a pain if you don't know what
you're doing.
Drying the area as much as possible by absorption will help prevent
unsightly moisture rings in the fabric after it dries.

Now hust HOW DID the seat get all wet?

Kate
98 Cobra Drop Top
With a personal Touch... or two.



|
| On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 23:11:22 -0500, darrenthornton.RemoveThis@webtv.net (Darren
| Thornton) wrote:
|
| > I should know the answer to this one. But some problems could have
| >several solutions. Which one is the best?
| > Somehow a spot in the back seat got wet. I occasionally have to sit
| >back there. Believe me, it is cold and wet! Most of the time, there is
| >no towel in the car. Those fast food napkins can only do so much. How
| >can I get the seat to dry up once and for all? The moisture appears to
| >be deep.
| >
| > Sincerely,
| > Darren Thornton
|
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| Vintage Burgundy w/Black Standard Interior
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AND... if it's like cola/ice tea/coffee kind of stuff, the chems will
leach out better using warmer than warm, but not hot water to wet the
shop towels or whatever you use to soak it up. Dry cloth tends to
leave the chemicals behind. damp cloth tends to exchange water for
chemicals, and water then evaporates and you're good to go. You must
change the clothes often for the exchange to be affective.

On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 23:11:22 -0500, darrenthornton.TakeThisOut@webtv.net (Darren
Thornton) wrote:

 > I should know the answer to this one. But some problems could have
 >several solutions. Which one is the best?
 > Somehow a spot in the back seat got wet. I occasionally have to sit
 >back there. Believe me, it is cold and wet! Most of the time, there is
 >no towel in the car. Those fast food napkins can only do so much. How
 >can I get the seat to dry up once and for all? The moisture appears to
 >be deep.
 >
 > Sincerely,
 > Darren Thornton

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