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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: jasonl on May 14, 2010, 04:59:04 pm

Title: Tea Stain
Post by: jasonl on May 14, 2010, 04:59:04 pm
What is the latest perceived wisdom for removing the above , hot and strong from a cream Polyprop, vanish has been used by the customer.
Title: Re: Tea Stain
Post by: Steve. Taylor on May 14, 2010, 05:18:30 pm
Hi jas i normally use prochem stain pro then rinse if that fails you could go the other way with white vinegar if that fails its the bleaching route oxibrite ect
Title: Re: Tea Stain
Post by: colin fitch on May 14, 2010, 06:01:47 pm
Hi Jason,

First things first, remove the vanish with a cool rinse.

Then proceed as per steveclean sugests.




Hi jas i normally use prochem stain pro then rinse if that fails you could go the other way with white vinegar if that fails its the bleaching route oxibrite ect

colin.
Title: Re: Tea Stain
Post by: Mike Halliday on May 14, 2010, 06:17:55 pm
on a polyprop just rince is out with whatever you have in the machine, no need for anything special
Title: Re: Tea Stain
Post by: markpowell on May 15, 2010, 01:10:17 pm
Shoud rinse straight out if polyprop
Mark
Title: Re: Tea Stain
Post by: jasonl on May 15, 2010, 02:27:02 pm
Thankyou for your responses.

Once I got there , it was a tightly looped wool berber  where the actual spillage was were black marks . THe customer had used foam and spread a brown mark 3 feet across!

I sprayed Nemesis on it , then left it to dwell , while I collected all  my equipment from the van to the lift , moved the van to the carpark 300m down the road , then walked back to the job up on the 4th  floor.

I extracted with my upholstery tool and all but the black marks came straight out. I had never seen black marks on a tea stain before , I went over it a few times with the  buffer and  the black was almost gone. One happy customer.
Title: Re: Tea Stain
Post by: murky on May 17, 2010, 08:35:40 am
Altec do a Tea and Coffee stain remover and a Red Wine stain remover.

Both do what they say on the label, Wine remover is only a level down from some kind of bleach (smells like womens hairdressers) dont get a whiff of it, very strong!

I have used both for years very effective, usually buy 5ltrs at a time, just remember to rinse out afterwards or there can be residue probs. Oh and they used to do a Debrown agent which was great for neutralising water stains etc after floods  not seen it for a while, have to look for it next time.

Murky
Title: Re: Tea Stain
Post by: gwrightson on May 17, 2010, 03:25:19 pm


Murky,

I am guessing you are reffering to sod.meta.   correct me if I am wrong but I always thought this was self neutrilising , as in spray and go   , same stuff as altecs i would presume, so no need to rinse.

geoff