You should have started by scooping blotting or otherwise trying to get up as much of the syrup as possible.
How to clean syrup off floor.
Take out some ice cube trays or drop a bunch of cubes into a metal container along the lines of an 8x8 cake pan then cover the pan with a dish towel to insulate.
Take a spoon a butter knife or another blunt object such as a solid spatula and scoop or scrape the syrup away from the carpet taking care not to rub or press it into the carpet as you do so.
Then it would have been fairly easy to wipe up the remaining stickiness with water dampened sponges and or rags.
Saturate the corn syrup with the hot sudsy water and let it congeal for several minutes.
If the sticky floor remains fill a bucket with warm or hot water and add cup of household ammonia.
Dump out the ammonia and water.
It won t or shouldn t take much effort to clean off your soakable surfaces if you use temperature to your advantage.
The easiest way to clean up syrup or anything sticky for that matter is to freeze it.
If you re worried about a syrup mess on something small and hard like a plate then all you really need to do is soak your syrupy things in some very hot and soapy water for a while then simply wipe them clean.
Pancake syrup jelly chocolate syrup ice cream etc all are easily.
Scrape the corn syrup from the surface using a plastic or wood scraper.
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Allow the floor to air dry or dry with old towels.
Moisten the mop with the water and clean the entire area.
Fill the bucket again and add 1 cup of white vinegar.
Anything with a lot of sugar usually just needs a bunch of applications of water to dissolve it.
Come back in an hour and the syrup while not frozen should be much more manageable.
Wipe the floor with a rag moistened with water from the first bucket wipe the floor rinse it out in the second bucket.
Use the vinegar to rinse the floor.
A sponge and a lot of water.
As you scoop or scrape scoop up and scrape beneath rather than scooping to the side as this could cause the stain to spread.
Do a portion of the floor empty both buckets start again.