I searched and didn't find anything that addresses this specifically. We have been finishing our basement over the past year. We have completed all the flooring, which consists of vinyl floor tile on the mud room/laundry room side (it turned out beautifully) and a berber carpet on the stairs and in the den, the main part of the downstairs area. Our next-door neighbor is a contractor and suggested that we glue down our carpet without a pad -- since it's kind of a rec room and since the carpet is very soft, that's what we did, and it turned out great. The problem is that when my husband and I were putting down the carpet, he unknowingly got flooring adhesive on his shoes and tracked some of it across the carpet. We tried to clean it up immediately with warm water and thought we got it, but some of it stayed in the carpet, and everywhere there was flooring adhesive, there are now these gray spots all over the sand-colored carpet. They don't look so bad when you are right on top of them, but from the top of the stairs looking down, and standing in the room looking around, it's atrocious. We have tried a ton of things -- I have tried Resolve and Spot Shot, but I know those are really for stains and not for stuff that's stuck in the carpet (and the dirt in our carpet in these spots is stuck to the glue, so it won't come out). I also tried some Oops! on the places where the sticky stuff was really bad and made some progress, but there are still these big gray spots all over the carpet, everywhere his foot touched. Does anybody know ANYTHING that will clean it up? I'm not above having someone come in and do it for us, but I'm still willing to try anything. I have heard that brake fluid is worth a shot -- is that true? Any other suggestions? We are desperate -- it's horrible having a new room with new carpet that looks like that!

I've tried researching this on the internet as much as possible. Unfortunately, most sites say that it can't be removed without damage. Can anyone here provide any help? It's on the front of my house, mostly confined to the first floor, but some spots did reach the second story. For anyone who doesn't know what this is, they are tiny black spots that stick to whatever they land on, usually a bright or sun reflecting surface. They are literally "shot" out of fungus plants, which grow in your mulch. They say they can be launched up to 20 ft.