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Apologies for yet another post about my weekend misadventures. Has anyone got any tips on how to get quite large bloodstains off bouldering mats? 

No idea about getting it out of the foam, but if you can get the foam out of the case you should be able to get it off the case by doing up zips and buckles, popping it into a pillowcase and subsequently a washing machine with some vanish or such like?

Definitely get a mate to do the wrestling with the foam bit, it's fairly physical and won't be happening with a broken arm.

I'd say a stiff scrubbing brush, soapy water and some elbow grease but you might need to wait a while to get that done!

Hope the rehab goes well

PS I'd be tempted to leave it and bore people with stories about the history of the stain

Elbow grease is somthing I definitely don't have, in fact, I'm not sure I have much of an elbow...

It's an Ocan Dominator, so no foam, weird air cell things, I will see if can get the cover off. For some reason I hadn't considered that.

You can indeed remove the air-cells (or rather pipes) from Dominator.

Once the filling is removed. Soak the cover in cold water (not hot). Then use a hard brush and gall soap...

Should come of nicely.

And if it doesn't, not a major concern... that's just life.

Unless you're selling it, definitely this.

This all sounds pretty nasty, I hope it's not too bad and you recover fully and quickly.

Definitely use cold water for blood stains - hot water will "cook" the proteins and make it hard to get out. 

Don't bother wrestling the filling out, the mat will have plenty time to dry while you recover.

Cold water and biological washing powder. Moisten the stain, cover with powder and lay some wet towels over it. Leave the enzymes to do their stuff for a couple of days, keep it moist. Then scrub or pressure wash.

Just leave it. You ever bother cleaning sheep shit off? It'll blend in.

I'd just leave it, it's memories.

I love how all your recent threads are like a mosaic, better than most tv scripts these days. Dogs at Scugdale, what3words is rubbish, blood off mat... all coming together in a bigger story. 

Hope your recovery is swift. 

Thanks, but I'm not sure these are memories I particularly want to keep! Alas the recovery is looking like it might be quite slow at the moment as it sounds like I have torn all the ligaments in my elbow. I'll find out when I see a specialist in 2 weeks.

I wish my in laws had turned up with all their dogs to stop me doing stupid stuff. My neece was poorly and they whent swimming instead. Fate or something.

Salt and cold water + scrubbing.

Got that tip from a hospital nurse for getting blood out of things

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