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Title: Polypropylene Carpets
Post by: andy east sussex on October 16, 2013, 03:52:42 pm

advice on cleaning this carpet please

Title: Re: Polypropylene Carpets
Post by: david@zap-clean on October 16, 2013, 04:21:04 pm

Quote from: andy east sussex on October 16, 2013, 03:52:42 pm

advice on cleaning this carpet please

Based on the info given - hit it with whatever you've got at hand.

Title: Re: Polypropylene Carpets
Post by: stuart_clark on October 16, 2013, 04:56:24 pm

High temp and high ph

Title: Re: Polypropylene Carpets
Post by: andy east sussex on October 16, 2013, 05:05:22 pm

ive found this

http://www.ccwonline.com.au/category176_1.htm

but nothing telling you how to clean a whole room bleach obv but you couldn't put bleach in machine

Title: Re: Polypropylene Carpets
Post by: wayne zabel on October 16, 2013, 05:06:28 pm

I love cleaning PP carpets - unless they are BW's of course.

Title: Re: Polypropylene Carpets
Post by: andy east sussex on October 16, 2013, 08:15:58 pm

really is there not much info on cleaning this carpet

Title: Re: Polypropylene Carpets
Post by: Neil Jones on October 16, 2013, 09:17:01 pm

Have I missed something

Title: Re: Polypropylene Carpets
Post by: peter maybury on October 17, 2013, 11:05:24 pm

Bleach cleanable carpets is some stupid term that the carpet industry has come up with. Bleach resistant carpets were originally designed as an advantage in nursing homes and similar situations where there is a greater risk of bleaching because of the situation. They have been in the contract market for a long time.
It is a pretty silly idea to give somebody the inclination to clean their carpets with chlorinated bleach in the first place. If you cleaned your lounge carpet with bleach then sat down to watch the telly then the fumes present would do you no good at all.
Bleach resistant should never have been rephrased into bleach cleanable. Just another of the generally used but totally misleading terms.
With regards to cleaning polypropylene the fibre is very resistant to chemicals. The problem lies with natural backed carpets as any moisture will run down the fibre into the backing giving the possibility for schrinkage, as is the case with poly propylene wiltons.
Belgium wilton is an inaccurate description used by many, as the belgiums make wiltons with other fibre pile and they are not the only country using polypropylene in wiltons.
The majority of polypropylene  wiltons encountered will be Belgium origin but not all.
Peter

Title: Re: Polypropylene Carpets
Post by: Simon@arenaclean on October 17, 2013, 11:39:39 pm

Agree with above, i've come across plenty with Jute backings. It's always worth a look.

Title: Re: Polypropylene Carpets
Post by: Russ Chadd on October 20, 2013, 09:52:23 am

Advice for cleaning a polyprop carpet ?
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