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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Johnny Czarnota on July 15, 2012, 12:01:48 pm

Title: Wool & silk carpet
Post by: Johnny Czarnota on July 15, 2012, 12:01:48 pm

I had wool&silk light carpet to clean, it was dirty but only surface, not very deep, I thought it will be easy one to do - traffic lanes were most affected - it turned out to be very tough to clean, i was not happy with it at all and I do not understand why it did not clean easily. Any advice?

Title: Re: wool & silk carpet
Post by: Paul Moss on July 15, 2012, 02:13:35 pm

Sure it was silk?

Title: Re: wool & silk carpet
Post by: Jim_77 on July 15, 2012, 04:30:45 pm

Carpet or rug?

Title: Re: wool & silk carpet
Post by: K.O. Glanville on July 16, 2012, 07:06:24 am

Was it maybe an "Art Silk" made in India  ?

Can you post a photo of it ?

Title: Re: wool & silk carpet
Post by: Johnny Czarnota on July 16, 2012, 10:17:00 am

carpet (hall and stairs) it was definitely wool, I have done burn test and customers told me it is mixed with silk
(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1342430456_IMG_1079.png)

Title: Re: wool & silk carpet
Post by: Jim_77 on July 17, 2012, 12:08:41 am

Quite possibly only something like 5% maximum silk content.  Clean following wool safe practices, keep the moisture to very minimum and use acid rinse & turbo dryers.  You need to watch for browning (which won't happen at the time, it'll be a call back the next day).

I cleaned some shaggy wool rugs at the weekend with additional silk yarns mixed in between the shaggy wool bits.  One of the rugs had been in front of a fire and was almost black - with a nice clean square where the kindling basket had been stood!

Balls out, Ultrapac renovate and plenty of acid rinse with the truck steaming hot... results actually shocked me, perfect.

However, all brown down one edge in the morning - must have not got the acid rinse through it in that spot :-\

Thank god for acetic acid :)