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spindle

  • Posts: 680
cleaning sisal
« on: April 23, 2008, 10:12:25 pm »
yes i know............walk away........

but i have been asked to try and clean a 2 bed flat covered in the stuff 60sqm.

i can walk away..but good custy with many properties.......would like to help..
the carpets are immaculate now but there are decoraters going in....... they will use dust sheets etc..but some  dust/dirt will filter to the carpet....do i just give it a damn good vacumming?? and say thank you very much? :o :o :-X




suggestion please.......
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Jason Hedges

  • Posts: 1035
Re: cleaning sisal
« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2008, 10:15:48 pm »
At the ccdo craftex said they had a new product for the very job.

Not sure when its available, John Kelly might know more.....

Shaun_Ashmore

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Re: cleaning sisal
« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2008, 10:26:01 pm »
Holy water

Shaun

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Re: cleaning sisal
« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2008, 10:43:10 pm »
Chris, you got an envirodri or a host or even a sebo duo. If so you can clean it, just won't do much. But yu let custy know and charge a premium for lots of vaccing up the sponges. Find the envirodri ones the best I've used but fibredri by prochem is not bad.

Re: cleaning sisal
« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2008, 11:08:19 pm »
Yeah the Craftex guy said it was like a encap shampoo that you foam up in a foamer then remove when dry. Think it's called ecotex.

Derek_Walker

  • Posts: 454
Re: cleaning sisal
« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2008, 06:26:03 am »
Have had good success with envirodri and Prochem sponges. Put plenty down and aggitate well, leave for 15-20 minutes then aggitate again before vacuuming. Have even managed to get a few stains out with it.

sherco

  • Posts: 1041
Re: cleaning sisal
« Reply #6 on: April 24, 2008, 06:41:07 am »
suggest to customer that polythene should be layed on the floor and taped along the joints then dust sheets put on the top, seen lots of floors done like this when builders/decoraters go into a house saves the carpet getting soiled with dust etc.
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Re: cleaning sisal
« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2008, 11:50:48 am »
Did some really trashed Sisal recently ........... clean or replace scenario .......... used Envirodri E30 and sponges but i did mist traffic lanes with M Power first.
By the time i had gone through whole flat brushing in, the sponges had absorbed and dried MP ........ not sure who looked more astonished at results, customer or me  :o

PaulKing

  • Posts: 1626
Re: cleaning sisal
« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2008, 02:22:42 pm »
That particular carpet is "sisool" sisal and wool from crucial trading and know what you mean about helping out.

I know it very well as just paid for a 4x4 m piece at trade price it was £474 inc. vat and non trade from Barker and Stonehouse was four figures fitted.

Try ringing Cruical trading for advice on cleaning!

Could belive the tech cleaned it as this is the mother of all shrinkers!


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Mike Roper

  • Posts: 326
Re: cleaning sisal
« Reply #9 on: April 24, 2008, 02:54:09 pm »
I phoned crucial trading to ask how they protect the stuff - spray with water based protector, no shrinkage problem that she was aware of . Hmm , dont think so.
Mike

Len Gribble

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Re: cleaning sisal
« Reply #10 on: April 25, 2008, 08:33:01 pm »
Chris

Decorators the bane of every CC they promise customer but accidents happen (that’s being polite) tell the customer to uplift carpet and refit a few days later when the paint has cured. Then go in a vac.

Len
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