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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: markpowell on March 08, 2009, 02:50:27 pm

Title: re-colouring carpet fibres
Post by: markpowell on March 08, 2009, 02:50:27 pm

I have a very good customer that has a wool carpet which she has applied vanish, she has removed the spot but in doing so has removed some of the colour from the carpet and now there is a light patch.
I would like to know your opinions on re-colouring this area using Dylon type products.
cheers Mark

Title: Re: re-colouring carpet fibres
Post by: benny d on March 08, 2009, 08:52:08 pm

Two methods we use on a small scale mark

! Wax crayon getting as close to the carpet colour as pos....obviously.
2 Fibre tip pens  "       "     "      "   "       "         "       "    "            "       .

I am fairly sure that if you check the SEARCH box at the top of the page you will find the thread .

Iam sure it was young Kenny Wainwright that put up the answer to the problem .

Sam The Carpet Cleaning Man . ( and probable one of the oldest !)

Title: Re: re-colouring carpet fibres
Post by: clinton on March 08, 2009, 08:55:35 pm

I too use the colour pens :)

Title: Re: re-colouring carpet fibres
Post by: Mike Osbourne on March 08, 2009, 09:03:28 pm

If you go on some of the Yank forums they seem well into that sort if thing and some guy goes through it step by step. Could be dreaming but I think there's a DVD course you can buy as well.

Clinton, this is for carpets not colouring in books. ;D

Title: Re: re-colouring carpet fibres
Post by: clinton on March 08, 2009, 09:09:08 pm

Mike

I got the wrong one ;D

Its for my join the dots the little pony club;D

Title: Re: re-colouring carpet fibres
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on March 08, 2009, 09:18:52 pm

I've been on a colour repair course and bought the kit which sits iin my garage, it's a bit tedious as an example if you have a blue stain on a purple carpet you use a red dye to match it up so you use the spectrum of colours Primary and Secondary and use their opposited.

That's why it sits in the garage.

Shaun

Title: Re: re-colouring carpet fibres
Post by: Mike Osbourne on March 08, 2009, 09:34:13 pm

Some peoples brains are very good at imagining colours combining

I think they show you those standard colour blind tests, then another harder one which nearly caught me out.

It's hero status if you get it right, but if you make it worse, :'(

Title: Re: re-colouring carpet fibres
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on March 08, 2009, 09:36:42 pm

JK used to use fabric pens to recolour and the colour you pick will be the colour you get but you'd need a load of different ones but the colour would be permanent.

Shaun

Title: Re: re-colouring carpet fibres
Post by: benny d on March 10, 2009, 04:15:15 pm

Message for Clinton.......

Where do you get your colouring pens from ?

Sam

Title: Re: re-colouring carpet fibres
Post by: colin thomas on March 10, 2009, 05:53:19 pm

i have coloured dog pee stain that had gone green on a dark blue carpet with dylon dabbed on with cotton wool swab, you couldn't see the difference but i'm not sure there are many dylon colours to choose from, i was lucky,

colin  ps i left the bottle with the customer for 'touch-ups'!!

Title: Re: re-colouring carpet fibres
Post by: murky on March 11, 2009, 09:03:05 am

There is a colour repair kit for sale on the items for sale page, approx March the 8th I think, down the bottom of the first page.

Murky

Title: Re: re-colouring carpet fibres
Post by: M.Acorn on March 11, 2009, 10:01:59 am

Quote

ps i left the bottle with the customer for 'touch-ups'!!

Payment in kind eh  ;D