[lina]

hi again fellow cleaners  (need help)
can any one please let me know what the best cleaner is for the beige/offwhite carpets  ( i keep getting called to clean,) you know the ones i mean, covered with black spots and dark grey in the traffic areas, any suggestions on the best process on how to get these back to the original colour would be a great help!!!!!!!!!!

[Mike Halliday]

red blue green orange pink mauve white black gray......

what the difference, prespray-scrub-extract

we can only improve the appearance, not return it to the original colour sometimes normal wear & tear will take away the colour.

Mike

[Steve Weatherley]

A good pre vacuum is needed too to remove all the dry soil. Dont spread the muck about!

[cleaning co]

hi carpet cleaning aint about getting it back to new, u cant do it ,all we do is remove the dirt and some removable marks ,as lots of things will dye the carpet
and as mick says pink ,blue green. etc etc  they all the same and there is no  diff chem for each coluor
gary

[lina]

thanks gary

if you was going to use a good detergent for cleaning these carpets what in your opiniun would you recommend, at the moment im using ultimate master, does anyone know a better cleaner, as this has a neutraliser, non foaming.

any comments would be great

[Dave_Lee]

Ultimate Master is as good as if not better than any other top grade detergent. If you are not cutting it with that try getting better equipment or pay more attention to pre treatments first. Dont forget your solvent spotter for the oil based spots that water based detergents will not get out.
Dave.

[lina]

cheers dave

the machine i have is the extracta excel, top of the range, but i think i will try what you say and look for a good pre-spotter

[Steve Weatherley]

Q Nick at solutions...........

[Mike Halliday]

Or even better, Q Mike @ Express cleaning Supplies : :

http://www.express-cleaning-supplies.co.uk/oos/carpetcleaning/

Mike

[conallon]

 

[Eddie Conroy]

Hi all,
Seeing that some of the senior members of the forum are posting on this item I have a question that I hope can be answered.
As some of the products out there contain 'optical brighteners' and that brightness is some measure of light reflectance. Presuming that white fibre has a propensity fo having the highest reflectance -would any product aid this ability and if so what is it?
The point has been taken that a clean is a clean is a clean etc,
Regards
Eddie

[Doug Holloway]

Eddie,

Optical brightners are dyes which reflect in a blue white light.

Problems arise because often they will yellow with time , and also unless they are applied uniformly they will cause patchiness as the areas with high concentrations will reflect more.

Good quality products will not contain OB's.

Cheers

Doug

[neil 47]

hydramaster blitz is the best I,ve ever used if I new how to post pics I have one I did with blitz on a beige carpet you,ve got to use it to belive it, oil stains, black marks etc just disapear as you aggitate.

ps

I have used  UM , M/S, CHEMSPEC ,ALL THE REST THIS BEATS THEM 

Neil

[Rousey]

Believe or not i cleaned beige carpets today that were heaverly soiled, especially by two dogs, like in the previous mails, pre-vaced for at least 30 minutes, got all the soil out (that made the carpet 85% better), then prespay, agitated my 'white snow' in (even though it is yellow) waited 30 minutes, vac out, one happy customer. DRY Cleaned!!

Mark

[stevegunn]

I sometimes used host sj on heavily soiled beige carpets until I saw light and realised hwe worked better