Rugs, Carpets and Carpeting - Glue on New Carpet

I recently had a new commercial grade carpet installed in my kitchen. It was glued to the linoleum, which the old carpet was also glued to. I should have stayed out of the room, but one of the installers insisted I stayed and chatted with him. (Motorcycles) So, what did I do? I stepped in the glue, and tracked it onto the new carpet for several steps before they noticed. They blotted the stains with lots of water right away, and it looked ok for a couple of days, but now it looks like 20 year old carpet. I touched the biggest stain, about 6-inches in diameter today (it was installed 6 days ago) and it felt dirty and sticky. Is there a way to remove the glue, or am I stuck with a brand new carpet that looks worse than the old 28 year old carpet.

solvent, do not over saturate.

Solvent could mean a lot of things. Could you be more specific?

Try mineral spirits and a clean, white rag. Put the mineral spirits on the rag, don't pour onto the carpet.

I use charcoal lighter fluid to remove excess adhesives when installing any glue down flooring, be it vinyl or carpet. It won't hurt the material and yet takes the glue right off. Put it on a rag and work from the outer edges of the stain toward the center so as not to spread it. It will leave an oily residue so you'll want to shampoo the spots you clean later to remove that.

I forgot to mention residue - both the charcoal starter and my mineral spirits will leave an oily residue, but rubbing alcohol normally will remove both.

Rubbing alcohol and denatured alcohol and dry cleaning fluid leave no residue.

Finally got around to doing this yesterday. Had to go buy some mineral spirits, as I didn’t have any, and wasn’t sure paint thinner would be good to use, since no one mentioned it. I used mineral spirits, and finished it off with rubbing alcohol. It’s about 90% better now that I see it dry and in the daylight. If someone didn’t know the spots were there, they probably wouldn’t notice them anymore. I’ll hit the spots one more time, and hope that they are completely gone after that.

Thank you all for the good info and help. :)

You're welcome, glad it helped. By the way, you weren't the guy at Dan's bake sale in Ft. Collins in '93 were you? He was standing on a short brick wall wearing a suit with a nice hat at his feet holding a sign that said, "Have home, have job, need airplane".

You're welcome, glad it helped. By the way, you weren't the guy at Dan's bake sale in Ft. Collins in '93 were you? He was standing on a short brick wall wearing a suit with a nice hat at his feet holding a sign that said, "Have home, have job, need airplane".

Nope. Already have plane. I rode by Ft. Collins on a motorcycle in ‘91 or ‘92, don’t remember which year. Didn’t get off the freeway. Only time I’ve ever been to Colorado. I noticed you are from Coquille, so I looked at your profile, and see it is the Coquille I know. I don’t ride anymore, and avoid driving if I can, so it’s been a good number of years since I’ve been thru Coquille, but have probably flown over it more than I’ve driven thru it by leaps and bounds. That whole valley around Coquille and Myrtle Point just turns into one big lake in the winter. Amazing to fly over, and see all those farm houses surrounded by water.

It sure does. They call it "winter lake". There's even a street with that name.