A cool guide to the 8 hardest stains to remove, ranked by…
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A cool guide to the 8 hardest stains to remove, ranked by difficulty across 8 different surfaces
Every time someone spills wine at a restaurant or gets coffee on their shirt at a cafe, I'm the one who panics and be like "PLEASE DON'T RUB" and Hair dye is the one that breaks me the most.
So I finally sat down, went through cleaning sources (Good Housekeeping, Martha Stewart, university extension guides, IICRC guidelines), and scored 50 stains by difficulty across 8 different surfaces.
The scoring is simple: each stain gets a difficulty from 1-4 on every surface (cotton, polyester, carpet, hardwood, marble, upholstery, leather, tile), then I averaged them. Hair dye at 3.5 is the undisputed worst. Turmeric and permanent marker tied at 2.8.
The biggest thing I learned doing this: the #1 mistake for almost every stain is using hot water. Your instinct is wrong. Cold water first, almost always.
I also built a full interactive version with step-by-step removal instructions for all 50 stains if anyone wants to bookmark it or play with it. https://sheets.works/data-viz/stain-index
#entertainment
Every time someone spills wine at a restaurant or gets coffee on their shirt at a cafe, I'm the one who panics and be like "PLEASE DON'T RUB" and Hair dye is the one that breaks me the most.
So I finally sat down, went through cleaning sources (Good Housekeeping, Martha Stewart, university extension guides, IICRC guidelines), and scored 50 stains by difficulty across 8 different surfaces.
The scoring is simple: each stain gets a difficulty from 1-4 on every surface (cotton, polyester, carpet, hardwood, marble, upholstery, leather, tile), then I averaged them. Hair dye at 3.5 is the undisputed worst. Turmeric and permanent marker tied at 2.8.
The biggest thing I learned doing this: the #1 mistake for almost every stain is using hot water. Your instinct is wrong. Cold water first, almost always.
I also built a full interactive version with step-by-step removal instructions for all 50 stains if anyone wants to bookmark it or play with it. https://sheets.works/data-viz/stain-index
#entertainment
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