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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: garyfindlay on March 02, 2012, 08:22:01 am

Title: Dog sick on memory foam mattress
Post by: garyfindlay on March 02, 2012, 08:22:01 am: Custie has above on a mattress. Not seen it, but has been cleaned with usual stuff, and odour still remains. Does the mattress soak up the sick like a sponge, and there is little chance of removal, or can it be removed. Told her it would have to be submerged in deoderisor, or injected. Am I correct?
Title: Re: Dog sick on memory foam mattress
Post by: Colin Day on March 02, 2012, 08:28:44 am: FreshGuard would be my first port of call....
Title: Re: Dog sick on memory foam mattress
Post by: Hilton on March 02, 2012, 09:15:55 am: You cant wet clean a memory foam mattress and if you do it invalidates its warranty, if they have done this I would leave it alone, almost certainly they pushed the vomit further in to the mattress, but its up to you.

As for how do you clean a Tempur mattress (or similar) we do it with Dry Steam and this is to santitise it, no guarantees on stain removal.
Title: Re: Dog sick on memory foam mattress
Post by: Neil Williams on March 02, 2012, 06:18:51 pm: Vertually impossible to clean these items out, you just can't get the near lock down required to draw any fluids out. Try it with any large piece of foam and see what happens.
In theory you would need to almost pressure wash it out, which would require specialist premises and equipment.
You only thing you could do would be to inject sanitisers into the mattress and allow it to dry which could take some time.
But I'd trust Hiltons knowledge on this and leave alone unless it's a few years old and the customer wants to sign the paperwork beforehand so they understand what can and what can't be achieved and why.
Title: Re: Dog sick on memory foam mattress
Post by: Paul Moss on March 02, 2012, 08:37:32 pm: What would you say causes the smell in dog sick?
And once identifying the cause, what chemical would you use to rectify the odour?
Title: Re: Dog sick on memory foam mattress
Post by: garyfindlay on March 02, 2012, 09:24:35 pm: Mattress is pretty new, and I thought either power wash or submerge. Didn`t want to say not interested, but don`t want to take it on, so just clarifying what could be done.....safely.
Title: Re: Dog sick on memory foam mattress
Post by: Jamie Pearson on March 03, 2012, 06:57:48 pm: Quote from: Paul Moss on March 02, 2012, 08:37:32 pm
What would you say causes the smell in dog sick?

Is there a prize for this one?

Quote from: Paul Moss on March 02, 2012, 08:37:32 pm
And once identifying the cause, what chemical would you use to rectify the odour?

Is this the Tie-Breaker?
Title: Re: Dog sick on memory foam mattress
Post by: John Milnes on March 03, 2012, 08:09:40 pm: Is there a prize for this one?
Is this the tie breaker?

No ....just a grandiosity issue which is best ignored ;D