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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Steve. Taylor on April 27, 2010, 10:51:52 pm

Title: fake tan
Post by: Steve. Taylor on April 27, 2010, 10:51:52 pm

got a 80/20 to clean on friday cream with a hint of pink in it have tried before on a different job with solvex citrus gel white spirit ect any ideas to get it out

Title: Re: fake tan
Post by: idealrob on April 27, 2010, 11:17:51 pm

It is either oil or water based faked tan, treat a small area, with the appropriate treatment, and it wil easly be removed

idealrob

Title: Re: fake tan
Post by: markpowell on April 28, 2010, 08:06:42 am

Prob permanent
Mark

Title: Re: fake tan
Post by: derek west on April 28, 2010, 08:19:00 am

TFFT, thought i was cwap for a minute there. :o

Title: Re: fake tan
Post by: Bob Robertson on April 28, 2010, 08:25:52 am

Graeme from ACS wrote an article on how to remove fake tan.

here,s the link-

http://www.accesscleaningsolutions.co.uk/cleaning-articles/fake-tan-removal.htm

Bob

Title: Re: fake tan
Post by: craigp on April 28, 2010, 09:28:49 am

What Graeme is describiing is basically Hydramasters 'knock out' which would be your best bet on man made, wool though! hmmm you be lucky!

Title: Re: fake tan
Post by: Steve Chapman on April 28, 2010, 11:54:39 am

just as a side note, hydrogen peroxide is not really stain removal, but a bleaching by adding hydrogen to the stain and making the stain appear lighter,  as such its only really effective on light / cream / white carpets and does have the tendancy to slowly wear off, so would be wise not to offer it as a permanent stain removal.

I normally suggest using it simply as a cosmetic treatment to enhance the appearance of the stain, not removal, as its actually not removing anything,

Regards
steve

Title: Re: fake tan
Post by: Steve. Taylor on April 30, 2010, 04:49:14 pm

Fake tan update once again i tried but failed on the solvent route so had to bleach it rather than remove it. The one thing that made it a little lighter was everbuild upvc solvent the stuff you clean the frames up with.

This job was a 4 bedroom townhouse all carpets cleaned lucky the fake tan was in the bathroom

Funny the lady joked about men being a bad shot and would rip it up anyway and replace with vinyl she must of been happy with the rest of the house £25 tip 8)