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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Steve Chapman on November 25, 2011, 08:30:48 pm

Title: Salt stains on ferry
Post by: Steve Chapman on November 25, 2011, 08:30:48 pm

Hi all,

Going to look at a job on the local ferry tomorrow,  they have some fairly bad salt stains that need cleaning along with general carpet cleaning, apart from lots of hot water is there anything else that will make light work of it ?

Think some of it has gone quite hard in places so will need to suggest something that is going to be fairly effective.


Regards
Steve

Title: Re: Salt stains on ferry
Post by: Phil @ Extreme Clean on November 25, 2011, 08:42:05 pm

Maybe a steam cleaner to blast the hard bits and soften them before extracting?

Title: Re: Salt stains on ferry
Post by: Jim_77 on November 25, 2011, 08:46:32 pm

Salty stains from seamen?  wouldn't touch it personally ;D

Title: Re: Salt stains on ferry
Post by: Simon Gerrard on November 25, 2011, 08:49:04 pm

Steve,
They are next to impossible to remove, so don't over promise on it. They leave really nasty white marks that seem to bleach the carpet.

Simon

Title: Re: Salt stains on ferry
Post by: Phil @ Extreme Clean on November 25, 2011, 08:50:09 pm

haha i was just thinking the same lol all that build up from living life on the seas with nothing but hands and porn haha.

Title: Re: Salt stains on ferry
Post by: Linds Russell on November 25, 2011, 09:34:14 pm

I'm not sure if its the same kind of relevant chemistry but last winter, we had lots of success on white council grit stains using Chemspec DFC 210 pre spray followed by DFC 105 rinse.

Linds

Title: Re: Salt stains on ferry
Post by: Simon Gerrard on November 25, 2011, 09:38:25 pm

Completely different kind of salt, these stains are saline which bleaches the carpet and begins to rot it making removal impossible, especially as most have been there for a long time.
Simon

Title: Re: Salt stains on ferry
Post by: Steve Chapman on November 25, 2011, 09:53:22 pm

Ok thanks for the advice,

its useful to know that they can bleach the carpet as i know they will probably suggest that they should come out easy as always  ::)

Will see what happens

Cheers