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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: nevil on May 18, 2007, 06:26:01 pm

Title: Blood stain wicking.
Post by: nevil on May 18, 2007, 06:26:01 pm

Had a call from a customer today, cleaned some blood stains from his carpet earlier this week. He said that some slight trace of the stain reappeared as the carpet dried. I can't remember what the carpet was exactly, except it was a pale cut pile synthetic.
I guess it's wicking up the pile as the tips of the fibres dry.

Can any of you guys suggest any further treatment.

Title: Re: Blood stain wicking.
Post by: lee_gundry on May 18, 2007, 06:52:53 pm

reclean spots


Lee G

Title: Re: Blood stain wicking.
Post by: Steve Chapman on May 18, 2007, 06:56:34 pm

The easiest way is to go back and surface clean the fibres only and not do a deep clean as this will only make the same thing happen again if there is more residue in the bottom of the pile.

lightly clean the top of the pile and dry while you are there and that should do the trick.

regards
steve

Title: Re: Blood stain wicking.
Post by: Phil Marlor on May 18, 2007, 07:22:51 pm

Blood always wicks up, it's a stain that always needs 2 visits or even 3.

Rgds
Phil

Title: Re: Blood stain wicking.
Post by: PaulKing on May 18, 2007, 08:04:05 pm

try a micro spliter and a cloth and then dy with a hair dryer, if not, i agree with phil rinse it two or three time

Title: Re: Blood stain wicking.
Post by: Geoff Jewkes on May 18, 2007, 08:09:51 pm

Clean the spot and mist over with acetic acid. This worked a treat on a buffalo suite after a guy had his nose broke, by a .......... er ..... friend  ;D

Title: Re: Blood stain wicking.
Post by: John Kelly on May 18, 2007, 11:12:39 pm

You should be treating blood stains as a contamination issue and as such remove the contamination. As Phil says this sometimes entails 2-3 visits so charge accordingly.

Title: Re: Blood stain wicking.
Post by: stuart_clark on May 18, 2007, 11:44:10 pm

I have had this problem before and yes I have had to make more than one visit but that was before I had bought a dry fusion system nowadays i would go over the offending area with the dry fusion machine and that is normally it

Title: Re: Blood stain wicking.
Post by: carpetguy on May 19, 2007, 08:43:16 am

Stuart

Trying to visualise cleaning a suite with a 40 kilo rotary!

Title: Re: Blood stain wicking.
Post by: nevil on May 19, 2007, 10:07:01 am

Thanks for the answers guys. All very helpful. The customer wasn't able to arrange a time for another visit, I am waiting on him to call. At least I'm now better armed to deal wih it.

Title: Re: Blood stain wicking.
Post by: stuart_clark on May 19, 2007, 05:36:57 pm

I thought the bloode stain was on a carpet?