Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: colin thomas on November 01, 2008, 08:47:59 pm
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i have a customer with a sisal carpet that has a water stain on it from a patio door leak, the carpet is only about a month old, any ideas, can it be cleaned safely?
colin
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Saw dust clean but what ever you do don't promise a thing I've nothing nice to say about this carpeting.
Shaun
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i know shaun, it's a nightmare isn't it, especially as she has only just had it fitted. only a month old and i think she is regretting it already. she has it all through the ground floor of a large house including next to the kitchen! i have left her some granules for any spills but why don't carpet salesmen tell customers of the pitfalls of this stuff
colin
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Dont touch it or you will regret it
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Colin hate to say it Bob's right unless the customers an understnding lady, the minute you set foot on it with your kit the carpet becomes your problem. :-[
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run away... nicely but still run away
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i'll get me coat then!!
:o ::)
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You should advise her to contact her Insurance Company.
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good advice from Finton
its her best bet, maybe the replacment could be something other than sisal.
Craig
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I'm amazed this stuff still sells considering it can't be professionally cleaned.
I stopped selling it years ago - I won't even fit it anymore - awful stuff.
Steve
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just in case,
can someone tell me how to identify this meterial, i know its a leaf fibre as i just went through the ncca manual, but doesn't say how to tell when i come across it.
derek
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Hi Derek
I have a carpet shop near to me that still suopplies and fits sisal, I took a photo of the range he carries - see picture below.
He told me they do everything they can to talk people out of fitting the stuff and that the fitters hate fitting it.
It has a straw / dry grass texture to it, though in the same shop there was a high end wool carpet that looked and felf incredibly similar to the sisal stuff, in which case I guess a burn test would tell them apart.
As you can see it comes in a wide range of colours too, so don't assume it's only available in natural.
Paul
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cheers for that paul.
i'm guessing the smell of burnt grass for the burn test?
derek
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Derek
As long as you dont smoke it ;D
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Awful stuff to fit - it has too acclimatise for 24 hours because it can both shrink and expand.
It should be fully adhered to an underlay which in turn should be adhered to the sub-floor on a tackifier release adhesive.
And if all that wasn't bad enough it frays and falls to bits when you cut it - can't understand why anyone would want to buy it - it's a fashion product which has outstayed it's welcome.
Steve
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Awful stuff to fit - it has too acclimatise for 24 hours because it can both shrink and expand.
It should be fully adhered to an underlay which in turn should be adhered to the sub-floor on a tackifier release adhesive.
And if all that wasn't bad enough it frays and falls to bits when you cut it - can't understand why anyone would want to buy it - it's a fashion product which has outstayed it's welcome.
Steve
100% correct
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It has a straw / dry grass texture to it, though in the same shop there was a high end wool carpet that looked and felf incredibly similar to the sisal stuff, in which case I guess a burn test would tell them apart.
It may be cruicial trading SISOOL ( see what they did there sisal &wool = sisool)
£68 a sq meter! does burn as wool and cleans great just shrinks later on.