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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Chris_Thomas on July 18, 2008, 11:19:07 am

Title: Carpet Made From Recycled Glass
Post by: Chris_Thomas on July 18, 2008, 11:19:07 am: £7500 worth in a rented flat. Looks apparently like tufted wool.
Anybody with any experience of cleaning this?

Cheers

Chris
Title: Re: Carpet Made From Recycled Glass
Post by: Mike Osbourne on July 18, 2008, 12:20:39 pm: The obvious question is WHY?
Title: Re: Carpet Made From Recycled Glass
Post by: Chris_Thomas on July 18, 2008, 01:26:25 pm: Potential problems in cleaning.
Sorry if I didn't make that clear.
Title: Re: Carpet Made From Recycled Glass
Post by: Mike Osbourne on July 18, 2008, 02:35:18 pm: LOL Chris no I meant why would someone have it if it was just like wool. ;D

I know the fibre optic carpets, which are quite groovy, are polymers rather than extruded glass yarn, cleaning those would be a nightmare.
Title: Re: Carpet Made From Recycled Glass
Post by: COLIN BRIGHT on July 18, 2008, 02:37:45 pm: cleaned one a few weeks ago
just cleaned as i would normal wool carpet
came up excellent
used a m/s and rinsed with water
Title: Re: Carpet Made From Recycled Glass
Post by: Andrew Briscoe on July 18, 2008, 02:47:45 pm: Chris, do your customers not mean recycled pop bottles and ketchup bottles ie plastic.

I used to retail carpets and at one time, this type of carpet was on market.

It was sold as stain proof, worked on the idea that stains wouldnt stick, as with a
ketchup bottle, once stood up all the sauce runs to bottom of pot and leaves upper
sides clean.

I actually bought one, was about an inch thick, very durable, but did have trouble removing
the odd stain.

regards
Andrew
Title: Re: Carpet Made From Recycled Glass
Post by: Chris_Thomas on July 18, 2008, 04:23:32 pm: Colin

Thanks for that.

Andrew

Property manager is convinced about it being glass.
It's fairly low profile and harder than wool to the touch.

Cheers
Chris
PS Steamer arrived today- looks good.
Title: Re: Carpet Made From Recycled Glass
Post by: Doug Holloway on July 18, 2008, 04:25:59 pm: Hi Guys

I spent 6 years developing glass tissue products which are like paper but made from glass fibres.

Even using E Glass and a very soft binder it still had a glassy feel and was far too brittle to walked on.

I would imagine it must have a lot of plastic in it..

Cheers

Doug
Title: Re: Carpet Made From Recycled Glass
Post by: Chris_Thomas on July 18, 2008, 04:50:37 pm: Guys

I'm wondering whether someone's misheard glass for grass. ;D

I haven't seen it myself yet, hopefully all will become clear next week.

Thanks for all the replies

Cheers

Chris
Title: Re: Carpet Made From Recycled Glass
Post by: Andrew Briscoe on July 18, 2008, 04:59:43 pm: Chris, hope it isnt sea grass, have to be dry clean only with envirodri or the likes of,

Nice clean steamer isnt it, hope you get a few £30 add ons to your jobs, will be paid
for in a jiffy.

Andrew
Title: Re: Carpet Made From Recycled Glass
Post by: Doug Holloway on July 18, 2008, 05:40:23 pm: Hi Guys

I would suspect the glass may well refer to the base, Flotex for example has a glasss tissue base, I helped develop it .

Alternatively it could be more marketing bull.

Cheers

Doug
Title: Re: Carpet Made From Recycled Glass
Post by: murky on July 18, 2008, 06:54:55 pm: Shouldnt this be on the general cleaning forum for windows etc.

How aboiut WFP system.

Murky
Title: Re: Carpet Made From Recycled Glass
Post by: *paul_moss on July 18, 2008, 06:58:58 pm: I was talking to Dave L a few of months ago and he was off to clean a carpet made of paper. I had not heard of a paper carpet until then. Quite interesting when you look it up and amazingly strong.

Dave if your on ovr the weekend, how did you get on with it?
Title: Re: Carpet Made From Recycled Glass
Post by: Neil Williams on July 18, 2008, 10:42:12 pm: Quote from: paul_moss on July 18, 2008, 06:58:58 pm
Dave if your on ovr the weekend, how did you get on with it?

He's still reading it ;D