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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: neil 47 on August 15, 2005, 02:30:39 pm

Title: tea stain
Post by: neil 47 on August 15, 2005, 02:30:39 pm

customer has spilt red hot tea on a white carpet .
its  is of manmade construction.
i have flushed with cold water and tried No3 to no avail.
 

is this now a permanant stain

is peroxide a option?



  Neil   :o

Title: Re: tea stain
Post by: Doug Holloway on August 15, 2005, 04:39:43 pm

Neil,

Yes and yes.

Hot tea on natural fibre is a big problem but peroxide may well work.

It's important to go carefully and not to promise too much as you may only be able to make a 90% improvement.

Good luck ,

Doug

Title: Re: tea stain
Post by: Mike Roper on August 15, 2005, 05:30:31 pm

By manmade construction do you mean the pile ?
I would treat when dry with a reducing agent - browning treatment . Peroxide would be my second choice.
Mike

Title: Re: tea stain
Post by: garyj on August 15, 2005, 09:08:27 pm

Mix up a warm solution of bleach ( about 50-50, its weaker when its warm) and be ready with your hand tool to suck it straight back up. I would spray lightly and rub gently with a cloth, if everything looks OK and you're feeling a bit more brave try again with a bit more.

Title: Re: tea stain
Post by: rs_cleancare on August 15, 2005, 09:20:52 pm

Hi Neil,

I had a job today excactly the same. Pure white carpet with tea stains. Tried all the usual tricks, tea & coffee remover, browning prescripion. But didn't totally remove all tea. I was disappionted as i generly have good results.
On speaking to prochem they recommened oxibrite. I didn't have any so don't know for sure if it will work.
As i made no promises to the customer we were both happy and i got another job from them. Not a white carpet this time thank god, i don't want to see another one again.
Rob.

Title: Re: tea stain
Post by: neil 47 on August 16, 2005, 10:15:07 am

thanks for the repys



Neil

Title: Re: tea stain
Post by: paulchambers on August 16, 2005, 01:16:56 pm

Neil that tes stain i had whilst in cornwall went away whilst cleaning but came back due to wicking so the eight pieces of kitchen roll worked to a certain extent but not completely     Paul

Title: Re: tea stain
Post by: homenclean on August 24, 2005, 09:37:20 pm

Try a solution of oxibrite, fibre shampoo and acidic rinse all pro chem products, apply the foam either by bonnet or brush leave for five minutes then re apply if it needs or pre clean the area using enzyme pre spay and then apply coffee stain remover and leave it. You have to tackle the components of the tea 1st, the milk, sugar etc. I use the above on a large commercial job i do and get great results when removing the tea and coffee.

John

Title: Re: tea stain
Post by: neil 47 on August 24, 2005, 11:07:21 pm

Thanks John
 
I.ll try that   8)