diff --git a/src/stripTerminalString/index.js b/src/stripTerminalString/index.js
index 2c83eec..174d5da 100644
--- a/src/stripTerminalString/index.js
+++ b/src/stripTerminalString/index.js
@@ -1,13 +1,24 @@
-/**
- * @param {string} value - value string
- * @returns {string} - retruns the parsed value (\b, \t)
- **/
-function stripTerminalString(value) {
+const stripBackslashes = value => {
 	const result = value.split('\b');
 	if (result.length < 2) {
 		return value;
 	}
 	return `${result[0]}${result[result.length - 1]}`;
+};
+const stripTabs = value => {
+	const result = value.split('\t');
+	if (result.length < 2) {
+		return value;
+	}
+	return result.join('  ');
+};
+
+/**
+ * @param {string} value - value string
+ * @returns {string} - retruns the parsed value (\b, \t)
+ **/
+function stripTerminalString(value) {
+	return stripBackslashes(stripTabs(value));
 }
 
 module.exports = stripTerminalString;
diff --git a/src/stripTerminalString/index.spec.js b/src/stripTerminalString/index.spec.js
index a323325..82a94dd 100644
--- a/src/stripTerminalString/index.spec.js
+++ b/src/stripTerminalString/index.spec.js
@@ -45,4 +45,26 @@ describe('stripTerminalString', () => {
 			)
 		);
 	});
+	it('tabs', () => {
+		expect(
+			JSON.stringify(
+				{
+					text: stripTerminalString(
+						'\u001b[31m \t\t10% building modules 2/2 modules 0 active(node:11160) DeprecationWarning: Tapable.plugin is deprecated. Use new API on `.hooks` instead\u001b[39m'
+					),
+				},
+				null,
+				2
+			)
+		).toEqual(
+			JSON.stringify(
+				{
+					text:
+						'\u001b[31m     10% building modules 2/2 modules 0 active(node:11160) DeprecationWarning: Tapable.plugin is deprecated. Use new API on `.hooks` instead\u001b[39m',
+				},
+				null,
+				2
+			)
+		);
+	});
 });