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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: absolutecleaning on July 09, 2010, 08:55:27 pm

Title: Being a thickie - is this a worry or not please?
Post by: absolutecleaning on July 09, 2010, 08:55:27 pm
I just looked at this for one of our neighbours and as soon as I saw it it reminded me of those horrible threads about Crucial Trading carpets a while back.

Am I panicking - I can't remember what the jute shot would look like and cant find any diagrams in my manuals.

Any thoughts please?

Cheers

Simon
Title: Re: Being a thickie - is this a worry or not please?
Post by: Neil Williams on July 09, 2010, 09:47:15 pm
I'm no expert on the subject of crucial trading carpets but if your neighbour had the stuff put in I think she would know if it was CT carpet or not, because of the price.
All the samples I have of CT carpet have all got a latex backing on them which I don't see in your picture. That btw is not to say yours isn't CT.
Title: Re: Being a thickie - is this a worry or not please?
Post by: Dave Whittaker on July 09, 2010, 09:51:18 pm
Looks like a standard hessian backing to me ??? I'd crack on and clean it......is it on underlay? gripper?
Title: Re: Being a thickie - is this a worry or not please?
Post by: Mark Lawrence on July 09, 2010, 09:54:10 pm
This is not a woven carpet with a jute backing, so dont worry. Even if this in your pic was a polyprop face yarn it wont be a problem.

Its only when you have a polyprop with a jute weave you need to worry a bit. This looks like a wool, wool mix or even an acrylic loop berber.

Happy cleaning.

Mark
Title: Re: Being a thickie - is this a worry or not please?
Post by: absolutecleaning on July 09, 2010, 10:27:33 pm
Cheers for the responses - thought I was worrying too much.

They dont know what it is as they have only just moved in (from being our next door neighbours to being 3 doors away ;D)

Its on underlay and gripper and is high % wool from burn test.

My worry was that every so often in the backing there appears to be a different fibre going across - above the hessian as it were.

I thought that these could still cause problems if they had jute in the backing?  If its only woven then happy days.

Thanks

Simon