Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: gwrightson on November 09, 2004, 03:35:36 am
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cleaning a 80/20 carpet later today,
apon surveying the said carpet ,i noticed a spill stain ,an area of about 5 sq.inches with odd little blobs adjecent, its on a beige carpet and left a
lighter shade, i am guessing bleached?
am not to sure exactly what brasso contains ,lady didnt have a tin to hand!
she had attemted to clean with 1001.
have made it clear that results ,liklely to be very limited just to cover myself.,
she is perfectly happy about this as long as carpet cleaned, but would like to try and impress ;D if their is a satisfactory answer.
tried a search cant find any thing.
any suggestions? geoff
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Hi,
Just looking on my can of Brasso, there are no ingredients listed. It just says: Metal polish for brass/ copper/pewter/ chrome. Flammable.
It's made by Reckitt & Colman (Spain)
I've a run down the side of the tin that has dried up a very light beige, almost creamy colour. Your stain could therefore be the residue of the original spillage. I know that it dries up powdery as you allow it to dry on metal and then buff hard with a soft cloth.
Before going in with any solution at all, I'd be tempted to use a stiff brush and a very good vacuum.
Hope this helps a little. Odd there is no other info on the can,
let us know how you go.
You'll probably get much better answers once the chemists on here wake up!! ;D
BF Nicky
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Geoff,
I always think these problems are worth a two pronged approach.
Solvents and emulsifiers.
In other words try cleaning a small area with white spirit on a towell , you will see prettty quickly whether you are getting any transfer.
Then extract with a hot cleaning solution.
Bear in mind the white spirit is likely to loosen the stain and the cleaning solution to emulsify it
If this does'nt work try prespraying with high pH and also a microsplitter.
As the customer is happy for you to try , this gives you a license to experiment a little but go carefully.
Good luck!
Cheers,
Doug
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Many years ago I was called to a brasso spill on some hand tufted custom design carpet in a Hotel corridor. A cleaner had been cleaning the brass surrounds on display cabinets.
The Brasso had removed the colour from the carpet (several different colours) and I was only able to rectify it by spot dyeing each individual patch after cleaning out the residue of brasso.
I would recommend you don't try this without the right tools, training or experience. The may be someone local to you who could help though.
Nigel
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Geoff,
The problem with Brasso and similar is two-fold.
Firstly - the thing that meets the eye - is the abrasive powder that gives the product its' colour.
Secondly is the effect on the dye of the petroleum distillates. This is the problem that can be hard to resolve even with spot dyeing since the effect that causes the colour change can also effect the fibres' acceptance of a new dye. Well done Nigel for overcoming this. :D
The first thing to do is to thoroughly rinse out the customers' contribution to the problem. This will likely also remove the remains of the abrasive powder but any that remains normally responds to Ultrapac Renovate at 1:20.
If you are not equiped to re-colour this is as far as you can reasonably go.
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well i rinsed out completly, and their was a;lot of of gunge that came out,
it seemed to improve vastly, i then prespay
ed in usuall way using m/s
and after drying results were very satisfactory, customer happy, suite to do now :) think i was lucky coulors blended very well
geoff