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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: strakercleaning on December 14, 2004, 01:42:33 pm

Title: Carpet Dye
Post by: strakercleaning on December 14, 2004, 01:42:33 pm

A mate of mine has inherited a red 100% wool carpet and has asked me if he could dye it another colour.
I assume he could spray with diluted bleach to strip the red and then spray any colour dye on..............................
ANY HELP/ADVICE  ???
ps. he only wants to keep carpet for a year or so until he can afford to carpet whole house, so not worried about look or condition.

Title: Re: Carpet Dye
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on December 14, 2004, 10:33:43 pm

Chemspec do dyes

Shaun

Title: Re: Carpet Dye
Post by: strakercleaning on December 15, 2004, 12:24:36 pm

Cheers Shaun......will put him onto that.

Title: Re: Carpet Dye
Post by: Ken Wainwright on December 15, 2004, 07:45:38 pm

You'll need some training to go with the dyes from Chemspec. Dyeing/colour repairs are amazingly involved and complex. Not for the feint hearted. Don't use bleach on wool, you'll dissolve it :o I feel it would be wiser and more cost effective to buy a new carpet. You can only dye a carpet darker, not lighter. If you have a carpet with, say, a yellow stain, dye it blue and you'll end up with a green stain 8) So bear in mind if there's a faded traffic lane, dye the carpet and it will still probably be a faded traffic lane but in a different colour.

Safe and happy colour repair :)
Ken

Title: Re: Carpet Dye
Post by: strakercleaning on December 16, 2004, 12:30:41 pm

Thanks Ken...........emailed him your reply and heard his jaw drop from Kent.
He may buy new after all  ::)