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Ian Gourlay

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Cream Carpet black roots
« on: October 27, 2004, 10:38:42 pm »
Today I insprcted a grubby carpet which is cream on top but when you look at the base pile in the traffic lanes they are black.

The base pile at the side of the carpet is cream.

Could the black be mould.

How many times would you go over the carpet to try to flush out the black roots.

Any suggestions
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Dave_Lee

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Re: Cream Carpet black roots
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2004, 12:23:38 am »
Ian,
Sounds to me like, they have done a diy job on the traffic lanes, Probably with a shampoo, probably overwetting and flushing (on more than one occasion) the top soil to the base of the pile and this has built up - very hard to fully remove, and to some extent anyway, will wick back to the top after extraction cleaning.
Dave.
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Ian Gourlay

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Re: Cream Carpet black roots
« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2004, 08:10:59 am »
That is what I thought  Owners took carpet over, Since then Builders have been walking over it.
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paul@ctcs

Re: Cream Carpet black roots
« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2004, 09:56:51 am »
Could the carpet have been bonnet cleaned in the past, explaining the lack of soiling at the top of the fibres??

Paul
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Paul Redden Countryfresh

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Re: Cream Carpet black roots
« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2004, 11:30:42 pm »
be careful I heard of a old cream carpet going green, it was caused by the duralay underlay breaking up and settling in the base. I would walk unless you get a disclaimer.........paul
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