[Brendan (chem2clean)]

hi,i have a friend who has a problem with a smell of milk in his car.Babies bottle fell with top off on passenger side carpet.Cant lift the carpet so cant get right to the problem.I have used everything to try to get rid of it but it keeps creeping back.Any ideas.

[Doctor Carpet (Ret'd)]

Working on the basis that the milk seeped under the carpet which cannot be lifted then presumably if you apply a generous amount of Clensan in the general vivinity of where the milk was originally spilt it too should then seep into the carpet and round any edges and thus neutralise the bacteria that is giving off the odour.

Rog

[Brendan (chem2clean)]

hi carpet doctor,yes i have tried cleansan on it,enough to get into the backing.Week later its back.

[Russ Chadd]

Try MPower from Solutions... 80:1 mixed up hot... saturate the area and leave it overnight with a damp towel covering, extract using plain water.
Also might want to apply Cleanguard to the area using a sprayer 20:1, as far as i know this product can be sprayed and left to work with out rinsing.

[Brendan (chem2clean)]

sound Russ thanks,heard some good things about mpower.

[John Kelly]

Can't understand why a colloidal cleaner would be first choice for this kind of problem. They do have some anti bacterial properties but are primarily a degreasing agent.

Milk in cars is one of the commonest problems car valeters come across. Car carpets are either polyprop or nylon and toatlly resistant to water. The milk will have soaked through the carpet into the foam backing behind and may even be pooling in the dimples in the steel bodywork.
Best solution is to saturate and I mean saturate so there is actually fluid on the top of the carpet, with an enzyme product and leave preferably overnight. Extract out then soak with suitable anti microbial such as clensan, microsan microkill etc. Leave this to dwell for about 15 minutes then vac out, don't rinse out.

[Brendan (chem2clean)]

hi John,thanks for your input,i soaked it with microban today,extracted.Maybe i need to soak more as you say above.Thanks

[peter maybury]

Johns advice is sound for years I used to cover milk spills for unigate in south wales untill they sold out to dairy crest and stopped offering the service. The majority of the spills happened in cars and the milk would often end up in the felt sound proofing or pooling in the ribs that the manufacturers put into the steel panels for strenth. There are several ways to takle it but you need to identify exactly the area that is the problem and look underneath at the profile of the panel to spot the low spots. As john has said the best product is an enzyme and you can inject this with a syrenge straight through the , if you vac this through the carpet and flush well you can remove the majority of the milk residue. If it has pooled in a rib or such you can even warm this area with a heat gun, after injecting the enzyme. (Paying obvious attention not to be near fuel lines etc ). Microsan should do the rest. In extreme cases where I did get call backs I did use a product called sterifab made by baneclean and this was a problem solver in the few instances that the above did not work.

Peter
www.carpetcleanercardiff.com

[Susan Dean (1stclean)]

years and years ago when getting milk picked up from our farm the milk tanker drivers use to spred custard power over there wagons , leave it over night and sweep /hoover the cabs out next day  smell gone

never tried it but they said it worked  

[Len Gribble]

Personally carpets out job, most wiring looms are on the near side

[Paul Moss]

If its skimmed milk then sterilised milk will reverse it. And if its pasturaised then uht milk will get it out 

[Jamie Pearson]

I thought it would have been chocolate milk for white milk!

[Paul Moss]

No Jamie, every body knows that is strawberry. 

[Jamie Pearson]

Damn. I am getting out of this carpet cleaning game. It used to all be so simple.

[Billy Russell]

No Jamie, every body knows that is strawberry. 

I think your losing your touch Paul, Everybody knows its Breast Milk!