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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Atlantic Cleaning on January 22, 2006, 07:38:03 pm

Title: Shrinking Carpet
Post by: Atlantic Cleaning on January 22, 2006, 07:38:03 pm

Hi

On Friday i cleaned a wilton carpet at a local hotel. I explained to the customer of the chances of this carpet shrinking and that every care would be taken to prevent this. I inspected the fitting of the carpet and it was secure all around except the doors which were stuck down with tape and there were 2 joins. Knowing this I cleaned the carpet taking extra care not to over wet the carpet and making several more passes with the wand to ensure the carpet was left as dry as possible. About an hour after I finished I noticed the carpet had shrunk a couple of mm in the door ways (the joints seemed ok a bit ) How can I prevent this shinkage, I would normally put in a few carpet tacks to secure the carpet in the doorways but on this occasion i could not due to the floor being concrete...  Any advice on how to prevent shinking will be greatly recieved

Thanks

Duncan

Title: Re: Shrinking Carpet
Post by: Karl Wildey on January 22, 2006, 07:48:09 pm

sounds like a belgian wilton made with a polyproplene pile not wool pile. You should not wet clean this if a belgain wilton as it has a nasty habit of shrinking.
If you can not tell the difference between wool and polyprop, one melts when burnt with a lighter the other smell of burnt hair. Or one floats in water(polyprop) the other sinks(wool)

Title: Re: Shrinking Carpet
Post by: Atlantic Cleaning on January 22, 2006, 08:15:02 pm

Are all Belgium Wiltons PolyProp???  if not what is the best way to test for a Belgium Wilton??

Thanks

Duncan

Title: Re: Shrinking Carpet
Post by: Geoff Jewkes on January 22, 2006, 08:44:26 pm

Belgian wilton. Take a fibre, hold it near a flame and if the fibre melts back into a hard plasticky ball then its polyprop. Won`t like HWE at all!