[wayne zabel]

I have been asked to clean some carpets plus clean a Memory foam mattress.

I have never done mattress cleaning before,is it a matter of treating the job as if doing some upholstery or is it a different process?

Could anyone offer advice on this please

Thanks

Wayne

[Gabriel Nagy]

Normally for mattress is a special tool with some ultraviolets or something like that. I personally did some and had no problems.

[Simon Gerrard]

Wayne,
I'm not sure about memory foam, sounds a bit risky to me because the foam will suck up the moisture and take for ever to dry and probably make matters worse, smell / bacteria wise.

Simon

[clinton]

You would have to give it some soaking by the sounds of it and it would be the drying that would concern me mate..

[derek west]

been a while since i cleaned memory foam, can't remember how i did it now.

i turn down mattress cleaning wayne.

[jim mca]

Only ever cleaned one used nemisis and extracted as normal then popped wrd on top for drying
custy over the moon

[Helen]

For sure you'd need a blower.
We did one last week, well actually it wasn't a pucker mattress but just a piece of 6 inch deep foam.
The trouble with foam is that it doesn't release the moisture easily even just pre-spraying and using suction off the machine hardly reduces the moisture content by much.

[M.Acorn]

I have had it up on my web site for the last 7 years,had 1 enquiry in that time,was from a really fat blokes carer he had massive lesions on his legs,which used to bleed and puss,all over his mattress,I turned it down.
Thinking about it I don't really wanna suck up jizz with my machine 

[Colin Day]

I have had it up on my web site for the last 7 years,had 1 enquiry in that time,was from a really fat blokes carer he had massive lesions on his legs,which used to bleed and puss,all over his mattress,I turned it down.
Thinking about it I don't really wanna suck up jizz with my machine 

You Southerners usually do that with your mouth....

(Sorry, I just couldn't resist!)

[M.Acorn]

Oi !! It wasn't me who was in the navy !! 

[wayne zabel]

I can see my post is descending into vulgarity

Anyway Ive advised the client that the mattress will not be suitable for wet cleaning and just doing carpets.

[Colin Day]

Oi !! It wasn't me who was in the navy !! 

Well, when you tried to join, homosexuality wasn't allowed, sweet lips.... 

[Steve Rothwell]

 

[Steve Rothwell]

Isn't it compulsary now ??

 

[Neil Williams]

Isn't it compulsary now ??

 

Only for those who believe a flying machine should be on a ship

[sanitechlg]

hi,
Carpet Mattress & Upholstery Cleaning & Sanitizing system and allergen removal machine with self contained, HEPA Filtration System and shielded UV-C Germicidal Light. UVC light completely destroys all forms of life: dust mites, bacteria, spores, mould, and fungi. This sterilization is carried out without any chemicals (dry).
For any questions do not hesitate to communicate with me.

[Buckland]

Its all available over here and has been around (certainly very similar to what sanitech does) over here for at least 10 years - there are numerous franchise opportunities (eek!) available and to be frank most of them offer something for a huge amount of money that can be duplicated much more effectively and for a lot less money by shopping around - for instance a good nilfisk GM80 + hepa vacuum will do a much better job vaccing dustmites and dm doo out of matresses than a combined handheld uvc wand/vac combo- just try it with a clean bag in your vac and you will surprise customers with quantity of loose material liberated - and yes uvc will apparently stunt reproduction of mites and avoid the instant return of dm and dm doo in an old mattress - I have two uvc wands I imported from taiwan and they do an amazing job with mouldy smelling rooms and any fabric or furnishing related odours - what they may not do is solve the problem that caused the smell or mould in the first place AND OBVIOUSLY THEY WILL NOT REMOVE A STAIN!With a mattress most people want a specific soil problem solved - usually child pee or sick or blood in a mattress - staining issues - and no dry treatment will solve that!

currently on ebay there is a ridiculously overpriced vac/uvc system for sale from a canadian seller which has been on there for months and months!

some will want dm and dm allergen litter removed and there is a market for this service here but it is not huge and will take some pretty creative marketing to unlock enough income for a viable business plan based solely on that business activity - it might be easier to try and sell dodgy franchise packages - in other words its perceived as a huge market but in reality it is imho only ever going to be a somewhat troublesome add-on to ordinary upholstery cleaning -

So when a customer rings up with a mattress staining problem and you tell them you only offer a dry anti-dm treatment you are just back to whether you are prepared to wet clean a mattress with all the problems and pitfalls that entails - mattress ticking can be very difficult to clean stains out of and if you overwet a traditional felt stuffed mattress or a mem foam one you have drying problems