Professional strength goof off will remove it.
How to remove rug stains from vinyl flooring.
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Keep your vinyl tile looking like new by removing the rubberized rug backing from its surface and refraining from using similar rugs over vinyl flooring in the future.
Rugs with rubber backing can leave vinyl and linoleum flooring with yellow discoloration.
Sheet vinyl resilient flooring is so easy to clean that it may never require anything beyond damp mopping with a cleaner intended for vinyl floors.
A throw rug is usually intended to protect a vinyl floor so the appearance of an ugly stain under the throw rug is an unwelcome surprise.
One powerful cleanser is water and bleach another is using rubbing alcohol over the yellow stains until they fade.
When the rubber backing on the throw rug gets warm the resulting chemical reaction can leave an unsightly stain that will be clearly visible on the vinyl flooring.
The proof will be when using white paper toweling it will turn yellow.
The stain is within the vinyl floor s shiny polyurethane coating.
Goof off will remove the coating and the yellow.
Although the methods described here won t harm most vinyl floors we strongly recommend that.
Goof off is a volotile chemical highly evaporative.
This guide is about removing rubber backed rug stains on a vinyl floor.
You may need some soaking and scraping to remove these stains.
Thankfully there are a number of ways to remove stains and prevent some future stains.
But if your floor has marks or stains that still won t come off you can use stronger stuff.