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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: davep on May 18, 2007, 08:42:03 pm

Title: Parker Knoll suite
Post by: davep on May 18, 2007, 08:42:03 pm: G'day, i have a 100% acrylic Parker Knoll suite to clean, the lady says it was £2000 15 years ago :o

Was thinking of trying the Super Nemesis on it?

Any thoughts please..
Title: Re: Parker Knoll suite
Post by: Fintan_Coll on May 19, 2007, 12:07:45 am: Cannot see a problem.
Title: Re: Parker Knoll suite
Post by: John Kelly on May 19, 2007, 10:05:34 am: Parker Knoll suites are usually of excellent standard. I guess it will either be dralon or a good quality cotton/poly flatweave. Never had a problem with them. Any suitable products will give a good result.
Title: Re: Parker Knoll suite
Post by: carpetguy on May 19, 2007, 11:34:07 am: Morning John

I was passing Newcastle a couple of days ago and intended calling in to get some of your products.............but, believe it or not I got lost and was runing a little late.

Is the feed back on your new product good ?
Title: Re: Parker Knoll suite
Post by: John Kelly on May 19, 2007, 01:58:20 pm: Sold out of the original floral, waiting new stock.
Title: Re: Parker Knoll suite
Post by: Ken Wainwright on May 20, 2007, 10:40:20 am: Most acrylic suites are of the Dralon style of fabric. No problem to clean but a little more physical effort is required compared to flat weavews.

However, I have cleaned a G Plan plain acrylic flat weave many times for a customer over the last 18 years or so. Any greasy marks from "family life" were an absolute pain using detergent solutions. When I changed to micro-splitters the results for cleaning were about the same but spots were much easier to remove. To be honest, I can't understand why as it still amazes me how well this suite responds to MS. It also dries VERY quickly. I'm talking about 30 minutes :o so detergent pre-sprays can dry out if you're not careful and will require re-application. This is the only acrylic flat weave I've ever cleaned.

Safe and happy cleaning :)
Ken
Title: Re: Parker Knoll suite
Post by: davep on May 20, 2007, 04:01:38 pm: Thanks guys, it is Dralon style. Will take on board the quick drying. . .
Title: Re: Parker Knoll suite
Post by: Ken Wainwright on May 20, 2007, 04:50:02 pm: Dave
Quick drying was with reference to the flat weave acrylic. Dralon style is a bit longer.

safe and happy cleaning :)
Ken
Title: Re: Parker Knoll suite
Post by: Doug Holloway on May 20, 2007, 06:47:51 pm: Hi Guys

Sodium tripolyphosphate, microsplitter to some, is known to be very effective on grease.

Cheers

Doug
Title: Re: Parker Knoll suite
Post by: Phil Marlor on May 20, 2007, 10:18:44 pm: Use MS on every suite, I find there is nothing else can beat it.

Phil
Title: Re: Parker Knoll suite
Post by: Ken Wainwright on May 20, 2007, 10:48:25 pm: If that's the case pHil, then I'll use nothing else ;D

I love MS. But when I started cleaning this suite all those years ago, One Step hadn't been born :o Solvent rich upholstery pre-sprays were ineffective in this case and solvent spotters struggled. One spot in particular never came out. Then one day, I tried M/S and it was a revelation. Spot gone without any extra work 8) 8)

Safe and happy cleaning :)
Ken
Title: Re: Parker Knoll suite
Post by: AquaMagic on May 21, 2007, 09:29:37 am: Phill do i mind if i ask which ones you use?

Dene
Title: Re: Parker Knoll suite
Post by: davep on May 21, 2007, 01:28:28 pm: Ta Guys, Pre spray gold and fabric fibre rinse did the trick ;D
Title: Re: Parker Knoll suite
Post by: Phil Marlor on May 21, 2007, 03:41:17 pm: Quote from: AquaMagic on May 21, 2007, 09:29:37 am
Phill do i mind if i ask which ones you use?

Dene

Dene, I think they are all as good as each other, but I use Solutions and buy in 25kilo drums, works out much cheaper, + I like the lady who answers the phone! ;)

Rgds
Phil
Title: Re: Parker Knoll suite
Post by: AquaMagic on May 21, 2007, 10:47:40 pm: Phil?

I use no9 on synthetic and i like the results, do you use no4 on naturals?

Dene
Title: Re: Parker Knoll suite
Post by: Phil Marlor on May 21, 2007, 11:04:38 pm: No 2, never tried No 9 or 4.

Rgds
Phil
Title: Re: Parker Knoll suite
Post by: Cloverleaf on May 21, 2007, 11:15:36 pm: Interesting about Sodium tripolyphosphate if you Google it. It's in many types of cleaning products.

Is this all that is in Micro splitters Doug?

John