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Joe W Brown

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Little black bits of (fluff?) on synthetic carpet
« on: October 01, 2012, 08:38:54 pm »
Its the second time ive had this problem. After rinsing i notice these black "bits" stuck to the carpet.

I had double vacced b4 hand with my sebo.

They dont want to come off. Especially when the carpet is damp after rinse.

Id be there all day picking them off by hand.

Anyone had this problem?

John Kelly

  • Posts: 4461
Re: Little black bits of (fluff?) on synthetic carpet
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2012, 08:43:19 pm »
This probably sock fluff. The small bits get caught on the little rough ends of the synthetic fibres. Usually worse at sides of bed. Been many ideas for dealing with it over the years no doubt someone will be along soon with ideas or check archived posts.


creighton foyle

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Re: Little black bits of (fluff?) on synthetic carpet
« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2012, 08:45:57 pm »
paul moss has a good way of getting rid !

see paul i was paying attention on the training day. (the first one you did)

Carpet2Clean

  • Posts: 378
Re: Little black bits of (fluff?) on synthetic carpet
« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2012, 08:48:11 pm »
I second that Davep  ;D




Richard

Paul Moss

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Re: Little black bits of (fluff?) on synthetic carpet
« Reply #5 on: October 01, 2012, 08:50:48 pm »
 ;D
Not every one knows that little nugget and probably not your competition ;) :-X

Jim_77

Re: Little black bits of (fluff?) on synthetic carpet
« Reply #6 on: October 02, 2012, 12:00:49 am »
Well that's one more lesson learned (thousands more to come!) about the frustrations of this game!  I don't bother trying for more than a minute or so with the dry vac - doing it for longer is not going to change the fact it won't come off with a vac!  Mechanical agitation after pre-spraying is probably the best - the carpet is lubricated so you won't damage it so easily.  A rotary with scrub brush probably the most effective, or maybe a decent CRB machine (a Duo won't really get in to it well enough)

Normally you can get a pretty good job done with this on a polyprop because you can scrub the crap out of it (relatively) compared to nylon and wool, which are a bit more difficult - the amount of agitation needed will wreck the pile if you're not careful.