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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: mark_roberts on October 16, 2013, 07:06:41 pm

Title: Soft drinks and vlm cleaning
Post by: mark_roberts on October 16, 2013, 07:06:41 pm

Have a carpet tile job coming up where there's lots of soft drinks spills and their sticky to touch.

I know a clean will easily remove the surface stain but I'm concerned with the stains reappearing given the amount of them.

Would you use an enzyme with hwe on the stains before cleaning the whole area with vim.

Or other?

Thanks
Mark

Title: Re: Soft drinks and vlm cleaning
Post by: Jamie Pearson on October 16, 2013, 07:23:32 pm

Are you compound cleaning?

You could use Chemspec Enzyme Carpet Shampoo if looking to shampoo

Title: Re: Soft drinks and vlm cleaning
Post by: V_Purcell on October 16, 2013, 08:22:15 pm

You should get it dry, before it wickes back up to the fiber tips.

Title: Re: Soft drinks and vlm cleaning
Post by: Derek_Walker on October 16, 2013, 09:04:33 pm

You have several options Mark, You could do the whole job with an encap shampoo with an added oxy booster, followed by bonneting.
You could hwe followed by Encap bonneting.
You could hwe followed by bonneting and blow dry.

Title: Re: Soft drinks and vlm cleaning
Post by: mark_roberts on October 16, 2013, 09:39:30 pm

VLM meaning bonnett or encap.

Just looking for the quickest way but dont want the hassle of callbacks as theres a lot of stains.

HWE the stains and bonnett the rest would be my bread and butter but always on the lookout for another easier way and not fully sold on encapping.

Thanks
Mark

Title: Re: Soft drinks and vlm cleaning
Post by: Mike Halliday on October 16, 2013, 09:42:04 pm

You need to dilute the sticky substance to a consistency that the  bonnet can evenly spread it across the carpet (The basic principle of bonnet cleaning)

We did an office at the weekend with a big drink spill problem, I  had my  helper going around with a sprayer and stiff brush, he worked the stains until they could'nt be seen before I even started bonneting.

Title: Re: Soft drinks and vlm cleaning
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on October 16, 2013, 10:17:50 pm

Where's the like button?

Shaun

Title: Re: Soft drinks and vlm cleaning
Post by: Chris Straker on October 17, 2013, 06:47:19 am

As Mike has described above, that is where the Floormac comes into it's own on commercial jobs ....... fantastic at lifting off heavy stains ahead of rotary and equally as helpful to have as follow up on any stubborn areas  :o ;) ;D

Title: Re: Soft drinks and vlm cleaning
Post by: Jamie Pearson on October 17, 2013, 02:41:47 pm

http://www.cleanfax.com/articles/commercial-carpet-maintenance (http://www.cleanfax.com/articles/commercial-carpet-maintenance)

Hope this article helps.