Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: shine services on November 30, 2011, 05:26:30 pm
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Evening all, i hav a customers rug that iv hwe over and over and over again pre treating with urine neutraliser and rinsing with a deodouriser as dogs have made alot of messes all over it. After all this, it still stinks. Its only a cheap polyprop so was thinking of emersing it in the bath. Iv never done this before are there any tips or pitfalls i should know about? Any help much appreciated :)
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I've just done one similar. Mine was synthetic with a woven back. It totally reeked.
The only thorough way is total immersion. If it has a cloth back this method is not suitable.
I filled a warm bath and added a capful of liquid bio. After a soak and flush out with cold water and a showering it smelt sweet as a nut. Stand in a bucket and let it drip dry as much as possible. Extract as much as you can with machine and hang over bannisters at an angle or better still turbo dry.
Another option is rotary scrub and pressure wash and extract.
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Thanks for the reply, how long did you soak it for?
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How long does your chosen product take to work?!
Presuming it isn't a tufted construction I would follow Paul's good advice. When you first immerse the rug, give it a good agitation to really get things going. Best thing is to leave soaking for 30-60 minutes, drain off the solution, rinse the rug out and then repeat the process again before the rest of your finishing work.
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Jim,Paul,it`s a cheap polypro rug.Suggesting all what you
Say to do,from the `off `is`nt the way to go to walk away
From it.? I turn these down,have done for ages,I`ve `caught
Too many colds`with em`.
Colour run,swealing,crocking,browning stains from saturation
I could go on forever.
There again,am I suggesting `the cowards way out `? :o ??? :-\
Lewis Doubtfire
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me too, i'd run a mile. but then i am a coward!! more trouble than they are worth.
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I have informed the customer that there is a risk it could be ruined and he has given the go ahead as it is only cheap.
Its more work but I also see it as practice.
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Go for it...the main trick is quick drying, after all you've done you'll be amazed what comes out! ;)
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Just stuck it in the bath, after hwe cleaning front and back approx 8 times the other day, the bath water would suggest i hadnt touched it!!! Amazing!!!
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Hopefully the missus didn't see.......Yuk :o
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Lol. Yeh a did two good soaks and two cold rinses then extracted. Totally cured my problem rug, thanks guys for the info. ;D
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Without a dedicated rug cleaning facility you'll never make any satisfying profit out of doing stuff like this - at least in terms of £ earned per hour spent. But you won't lose out financially and if you can become someone's hero, guess who's going back to do other work like carpets & upholstery?! ;)
You need to think outside the box a little bit. The benefits are sometimes not immediately obvious.
I've yet to find a suitable workshop premises so I'm in the same boat really. At this very moment I have a very large rug downstairs in my lounge with four airmovers blasting it dry after I gave it the full works today, rugbadger & saturation clean. Kind of screws up my TV watching for the evening! But I'm always sat up here jabbering away on forums anyway so no real loss, only the dog giving me looks of "WTF?" :D
Once finished I've got a 45 mile round trip to return the rug, but when I picked it up I did a decently priced carpet clean at the same time. The house (stately home set in thousands of acres of land) is a grade 2 listed building with huge amounts of carpet, stacks of upholstery and PLENTY more rugs where that came from.
When I go back the van will be washed, best shirt on, freshly showered and shaved and salesmanship turned up to the max ;)
Excuse my self indulgence :) Just reinforcing the point that sometimes if you do something that means a lot to a customer it will lead on to a steady stream of repeat business ad infinitum :)
(plus it's a learning process which is invaluable)
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I like your philosophy Jim, so true ;)
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I agree, getting the foot in the door is my aim. I have actually made a loss on this 1 as iv spent quit a bit of time on it but dont mind as its a lesson to up the price on pet stained rugs and iv realised i can achieve a superior standard of clean by emersion on this type of rug. Worth the effort and time
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Exactly mate, we all have to learn from experience and build on our knowledge from whatever level we start :)
What I would strongly recommend is getting on the next DECENT rug course that comes available. There have been a few advertised and reported on that I wouldn't bother with. Sadly I think some of the world leaders in the field would never do courses or have been over here from abroad already recently and aren't coming back for some time.
A word of caution - if presented with a similar condition on a rug you think is of a higher value, ask some questions first before filling the bath up :)
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:) Will do, cheers jim