Question Please help! My dog used the bathroom on my dry clean only comforter. It's brown and light blue and 100% polyester on the front and back and the filling is 50% polyester and 50% cotton fiber fill. I can not afford to take it to the cleaners and I'm not sure it would get the urine out.
Answer Christina,
First of all, taking it to the cleaners will not help. Dry cleaning will not remove urine. Even though it says not to use water, you can. You just have to be careful. Put a couple drops of non bleaching liquid laundry detergent in a spray bottle. Fill the rest with warm water. Shake it up. Now mist the area with the solution and agitate it with a brush or something else that's hard but not sharp. Like the back of a butter knife. Then blot the area with a dry white towel. Make sure you keep the solution as even as possible. The reason things are marked dry clean only is because using something with water can cause a ring. To avoid this, you have to "feather" the moisture out from the spot. So when you get the spot wet, you have to get the area around the spot wet also. What you're trying to do is keep the moisture as even as possible. Another words as you move away from the spot, keep getting the comforter wet, but a little less and less as you move farther from the spot. That will avoid getting a ring. Even if you had to get the whole comforter a little wet, that would be OK. What you don't want is one very wet spot. That's what causes rings. After you're done, you can even take a damp towel and just very lightly get the whole comforter a little wet just to keep the moisture even.
