Heat won't help, it'll make a gooey mess. If it is still sitting on top of the fibers rather than soaked into the pile you might try putting some duct tape. Roll it out in short sections, press down and pull up. The dried glue will stick to the duct tape adhesive. If it has soaked in and dried you will need to get a can of Bestine rubber cement thinner. Art stores carry this. Silver can with red and black lettering. Work a small area at a time as it evaporates quickly. Dribble some on and using a clean rag work it in a bit and wick it back up. This solvent is toxic, so open the window. Eileen

Carpetgirl, We have bought a 10 yr old house and are changing all of the flooring before we move in. Our first major challenge is selecting carpet and this thread has been sooo helpful in understanding the options! We are definitely going with SmartStrand and we want the saxony plush. We expect to be a "shoes off" house with no pets but several young grandchildren. Kind of wanting the more formal look of the pile cut but don't want to end up with a fuzzy mess in 5 years, so we are willing to spend a little more on the best quality Smart Strand. We have found the following examples of this style in SmartStrand and are looking for the most dense, highest twist. Each dealer provides different information and it has been really difficult to compare. We have narrowed it down to: Horizon New Sensations and Alexander Smith Kingsley Palace. They have the EXACT colors with different names but the Kingsley Palace carpet appears to have a longer fiber. I don't have the face weight or twist ## to compare. Can you tell me which product is considered to be higher quality..Horizon or Alexander Smith? Not much information about Alexander Smith out there, though lots of great history lessons about the company. (We also looked at Karastan's Enviable and to our untrained eyes and fingers, it did not seem as dense and cushy as these others.) We sure would appreciate any information you have on this..we have reached a brick wall in our research and we need to make a selection this week and move on to paint colors! Arghhhh. Thanks!

DH brings home scraps of berber from office bulding remodels. He carpets our garage steps and puts scraps in front of the tool chests. That stuff wears like iron!!! The cars leave pools of melting snow that the berber soaks up......it still looks great!!! I think a small yarn, light tan color carpet,leaning toward grey, is my first choice. Not a shag, but long enough to be plush and warm. "IF" we lived in a climate where there were fleas.....I hear plush carpets are undesirable.

Hi Donna, Yes, it works fine. I really did panic for no reason. When I first saw the face of the iron I thought I would be buying a new one today or running out to that 24 hr WalMart so I could keep sewing last night! It took some rubbing and even some scraping with a soft wooden chopstick, but it all came off. The ironing board cover is a different story. Of course, the FIRST thing I did was rub it on the board - I guess I thought I was going to rub it off??? Honestly I think my brain just shut off for a moment because that was not the smartest thing I could have done. Only a small portion of the melted synthetic goo transferred onto the board cover but it was enough to render it useless. It was kind of a super glue moment and for just a second I thought the iron was actually stuck to the board cover! OK, it's a little funny now but it was NOT funny last night. Well, maybe it was if you had been watching. Through it all I was calling McQueen (aka Demon Cat) a string of pretty inventive names that I will not print here. Anyway, the iron works but the ironing board now has a texture kind of like an emery board. Kate