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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Alan falconer on April 28, 2012, 04:52:53 pm

Title: Irn bru
Post by: Alan falconer on April 28, 2012, 04:52:53 pm

Anybody got some tips on irn bru removal..... Just can't seem to get it out ..to be honest most people point it out and say "there's irn bru there I know you can't get that out " but there must be something.
Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: Irn bru
Post by: Jim_77 on April 28, 2012, 04:54:52 pm

Have you been glossing over all the topics on "dye gone" lately?  Loads of talk about it!  Jamie from CSUK posted up a video a week or so ago showing irn bru... sorry, "iron brew" removal :)

Title: Re: Irn bru
Post by: Alan falconer on April 28, 2012, 06:42:46 pm

Yeah watched the video on it wondered how it would work on a carpet with a bit more colour on it think I read somewhere it can take the colour right oot..sorry talkin Scottish again lol.

Title: Re: Irn bru
Post by: Jim_77 on April 28, 2012, 06:54:45 pm

Yeah, can be a problem.  I had some Chinese rugs in recently and they were covered in stains like tea/coffee/wine etc.  The spills covered areas that included both the light cream colours and the darker blues.  Got the stains out of the cream colours a piece of cake but it started taking the dye from the darker parts, so had to bail out quick!

It all depends on the fastness of the carpet dye.  Bleaching works on the principal of last in, first out, so your bleaching has to be controlled enough to be just enough to get the stain out without going any further.  Sometimes the stain is less removable than the carpet dye, in which case game over.

Title: Re: Irn bru
Post by: jim mca on April 28, 2012, 08:07:17 pm

Jim

Real iron brew is called Irn Bru only the cheap copies are called iron brew

Title: Re: Irn bru
Post by: Jamie Pearson on April 28, 2012, 08:27:04 pm

Quote from: Alan falconer on April 28, 2012, 06:42:46 pm

Yeah watched the video on it wondered how it would work on a carpet with a bit more colour on it think I read somewhere it can take the colour right oot..sorry talkin Scottish again lol.

Awry Alan howsit goin. At the end o the vid on you choob there is wan a did wae colour carpet samples. If you keep her eyes peeled while it's wurkin ye shoot be fine. Just rinse it oot when the stain fades.

Title: Re: Irn bru
Post by: Jim_77 on April 28, 2012, 08:32:05 pm

Jim, I was referencing Jamie's avoidance of any possible legal issues :)

Title: Re: Irn bru
Post by: jim mca on April 28, 2012, 10:17:05 pm

Sorry Jim missed the origional post

Title: Re: Irn bru
Post by: Alan falconer on April 29, 2012, 10:47:51 am

Quote from: CleaningSystemsUK on April 28, 2012, 08:27:04 pm

Quote from: Alan falconer on April 28, 2012, 06:42:46 pm

Yeah watched the video on it wondered how it would work on a carpet with a bit more colour on it think I read somewhere it can take the colour right oot..sorry talkin Scottish again lol.

Awry Alan howsit goin. At the end o the vid on you choob there is wan a did wae colour carpet samples. If you keep her eyes peeled while it's wurkin ye shoot be fine. Just rinse it oot when the stain fades.

Ha ha I'll choob ye ya heed case..... I shall go and watch again cheers big man ,