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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Joe H on March 14, 2011, 03:15:56 pm

Title: Putty On a Carpet Gone Hard
Post by: Joe H on March 14, 2011, 03:15:56 pm

Just had a call, someone has a blob of putty, 10p piece size, on their carpet and its gone hard.
They have had a carpet cleaner in who could not remove it.

Any one any idea what may help.

Title: Re: Putty On a Carpet Gone Hard
Post by: Paolo on March 14, 2011, 03:20:34 pm

Quote from: Joe Hatton on March 14, 2011, 03:15:56 pm

Just had a call, someone has a blob of putty, 10p piece size, on their carpet and its gone hard.
They have had a carpet cleaner in who could not remove it.

Any one any idea what may help.

I would apply gentle heat and remove.

Title: Re: Putty On a Carpet Gone Hard
Post by: Joe H on March 14, 2011, 03:24:15 pm

Gentle heat as per a hair dryer, or moist heat as hot water towel?

Title: Re: Putty On a Carpet Gone Hard
Post by: Paolo on March 14, 2011, 03:25:41 pm

Quote from: Joe Hatton on March 14, 2011, 03:24:15 pm

Gentle heat as per a hair dryer, or moist heat as hot water towel?
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Hairdryer IMO

Title: Re: Putty On a Carpet Gone Hard
Post by: Griffus on March 14, 2011, 03:35:54 pm

I had this a while ago and was surprised how easy it came out. Wet it and then chip away with your bone spatula. It will break up, just keep chipping away.

Title: Re: Putty On a Carpet Gone Hard
Post by: Carpet Dawg on March 14, 2011, 05:50:15 pm

Wonder what the other carpet cleaner done to it  ??? maybe made it worse.

Title: Re: Putty On a Carpet Gone Hard
Post by: Steve. Taylor on March 14, 2011, 06:04:44 pm

Hi joe i had a  youth club carpets to clean a couple of years ago that had hard putty on the carpet,
i removed it with a steam gun, but got a call back when it dryed as there was oil marks on the carpet
The oil marks i guess was the linseed oil in the putty,

cleaned the spots with citrus gel rinsed and forced dryed with a hair dryer
job done.

So make sure you dry it before you leave to save going back as i did ;D