[Pristine Clean]

Hi Poeple,

I have been looking into carpet repair. Not decided whether to do this myself or get someone in.

We started a contract the otherday and on arrival we noticed a bleach stain on the carpet. Or it appears to be bleach. Not caused by us.

Is there another chemical/ drink that can cause a bleached type stain.

Does if you spill bleach does it dye the carpet straight away or does it take a few days to show.

Anyways we are looking into getting this repaired possibly - its commercial carpet.

Cheers

[Simon@arenaclean]

I can't think of anything that would have the same effect as chlorine bleach. I've found a couple of articles which maybe of interest. http://science.howstuffworks.com/question189.htm and this http://www.pburch.net/dyeing/FAQ/neutralizingdischarge.shtml Are they tiles? If they are you're laughing

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Could be bleach from the cleaners bucket, dyeing a carpet is complexed and takes practice you could do what I do and get a load of wax crayons and get one that is near ( you need to heat the carpet up with a hair drier first)

Shaun

[Ken Wainwright]

I was involved with a report for a health authority in Essex a couple of years ago, and they had similar problems with "Bleach" marks. A pH test of the maks reveaqled them to be highly acidic, not alkaline. After investigation and tests, I discovered that they were caused by a toilet cleaner/limescale remover.  Being nylon tiles (glue down) spot dyeing was recommended (easy if you know how).

Safe and happy cleaning
The Ken

[Pristine Clean]

Hi Guys,

thanks for the helpful replies and links

Many thanks

Dave