Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: james roffey on November 05, 2011, 12:42:35 pm
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Went to look at a fitted carpet the other day and my first thoughts were its a belgian wilton i looked at the reverse to see if the backing showed the pattern and it did not, i took a sample for a burn test which i did later.
The carpet burned vigorously and had an ash residue the only time i have seen this is with viscose, i have wet cleaned viscose rugs they have all been very shiny and quite distinct, i have not come across viscose in a fitted carpet, well not to my knowledge.
Have i misidentified this carpet, if not can it be wet cleaned, am i asking a stupid question. :-[
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What odour did the flame test give?
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Difficult to describe as i have a stinking cold at the moment :( it burned with an orange flame very vigorously to an ash i have come across this is with upholstery fibre before.
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White smoke, orange flame, burning paper smell?
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Cotton by any chance? That'll burn to ash.
if we make the viscose wet its strength decreases., but in cotton strength increases
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Have you done a float test?
Mark
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As far as i understand the float test is only useful to determine if its polypropylene which it is not, and i have never heard of a cotton fitted carpet although i know cotton does burn like this fibre and it burns to an ash.
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They could well be flax/linen carpets. I have a yacht to do in the new year where carpet cleaners wrote of £200k worth of em by cleaning them with a Sabrina maxi and formula 90. Nothing wrong with those products just the guys using them.
Are these in a very expensive house? Have you asked the customer what they paid for them?
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I have a yacht to do in the new year where carpet cleaners wrote of £200k worth of em by cleaning them with a Sabrina maxi and formula 90.
Well if you're going to have an insurance claim you might as well make it worthwhile :o
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No they are not expensive carpets, i think i will go down carpetright to see if i can find them in there, when i do the job i will get a photo, they are tufted with a hessian/jute backing
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James, in the unlikely event that it is a viscose carpet, it would be expensive and unusual - certainly nothing that would be sold by the likes of carpetright.
What made you think it was a belgian wilton ?
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As far as i understand the float test is only useful to determine if its polypropylene which it is not, and i have never heard of a cotton fitted carpet although i know cotton does burn like this fibre and it burns to an ash.
I asked if you had done a float test, with you saying you thought it was a Belgian Wilton.
If its not Polyprop then its not a Belgian Wilton.
Mark
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Sorry Mark, my first thought when i saw it were Belgian Wilton, i was just unable to identify what sought of fibre burns vigourously and to an ash my only experience of burning like that was viscose