[Craigp]

Pics to follow, I don't normally do curtains but this is for a good customer that I'd like to help.

Curtain experts, How would I go about cleaning these? as I would think it needs more than an in-situ clean?

The bottom parts are badly soiled from dogs rubbing along them.

I think they are mostly cotton, but I will find out exactly what they are soon, as the customer is going to find the info in her paperwork.

Thanks Craig

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[Kev Loomes]

Looks like light fade on the fronts - cant do much about that. Dog grease - use a dry cleaning solvent to lift it with a terry towel. You could either continue and do the rest this way or use something like mpower misted on very lightly and towel off. If you get them too damp with anything water based they could shrink (but you could do a test to determine this).

p.s. I would vacuum them first both sides.

[Craigp]

Thanks for the reply Kev, I know it looks like fade in the picture but there is not any, it's all dog grease.

Sounds very arduous task, there is 4 of them, is there any chance they would go in a washing machine? 

Otherwise I will do as you say with dry cleaning solvent, guess I could bring them home and do it over an ironing board.

[Shaun_Ashmore]

A damn good vac, you could use chemspec heavy duty soil lifter which is excellent for this but it stinks I would spray on and towel off and keep on going you could hwe these you will have fading on these guaranteed the linings are a lost cause.

Shaun

[Craigp]

Cheers Shaun, I just looked up that Chemspec heavy duty soil remover and it looks ideal, Il try that and hwe with cfr 5" and see how that goes.

[Carpet Dawg]

Good luck with the sore shoulder and arm 

[Mark Slaney]

  M Power is good for curtains  , i had the same recently where a dog was brushing past them. Removed it all.

  Forget the backs, uv light just damages them over the years.

 

[peter maybury]

Craig
with curtains you do need to be a ware that many of the fabrics used are not pre-schrunk. This is something that becomes a big danger if wet cleaning. Even when customers are taking their curtains to be dry cleaned they will norally have to sign a disclaimer. You need to forewarn the customer and look at ways to overcome by lowering rail etc just in case. If curtains are overhanging the reveal then it is not an issue, bit if the are on patio doors or inside a reveal then it becomes an issue. If the curtains schrink the the linings will be longer and will need to be tacked up. Kining do not respond well to cleaning.
I rind that a steamer and a towel is a good way of removing pet grease.

Peter
www.carpetcleanercardiff.com