[wynne jones]

Powerburst will melt a wool carpet, but if you use an acid rinse it will be fine afterwards. 

[Paul Moss]

Wayne is right, i now 3 carpet cleaners that had thier fingers melted to the bone just by mixing power burst up into their prespray.

[Billy Russell]

Wayne is right, i now 3 carpet cleaners that had thier fingers melted to the bone just by mixing power burst up into their prespray.

You should of told them to put soy sauce on them! It makes the skin grow back

[Simon Gerrard]

Billy Russell breathed it in as he was mixing it and look what it's done to his face

[Fran84]

Well me not being a chemist I wouldn't like to guess what caused the problem.

Although, I can say it definitely wasn't enzymes!!

[John Kelly]

Powerburst is enzyme free. However high alkalinity can brown light wool fibres. I know a number of cases where this has happened. Usually because they have mixed alkaline pre-sprays too strong.

[Steven Butler]

I mixed it 15ml per ltr of water as per instructions and rinsed with final phase so is it pretty safe to assume there will be no issues?
Cheers

[Jamie Pearson]

Run a test with your set up for peace of mind.

Results will vary depending on level of acidic soil, strength of final phase and the flow of your equipment.

A small Numatic George/Puzzi wont flush it as well as a high spec TM and due to the buffering of Powerburst it could fight off the neutralisiation of your rinse quite effectively.

[Tony_C]

Shaun, forgive me if I’ve misunderstood. Are you saying that you wrote a report for an insurance company saying that enzymes in the cleaning product used by the carpet cleaner were to blame, when in fact the product used contained no enzymes? 

[Sergio]

I often use powerburst as prespray and an acid rinse after for washing wool rugs. The question is about dwell time.  Need dwell time?

[Robin Ray]

2013!!

As has been stated before. Powerburst is not really intended for cleaning 100% wool oriental rugs. The instructions do say if used for cleaning wool, rinse with fiber and fabric rinse.  Many people have, including myself, cleaned wool carpets with powerburst with no problems. Because of its alkalinity ph11 it runs the risk of causing color bleed and cellulose browning. Dwell time will improve cleaning performance, but will also increase the risk of color bleed and cellulose browning.

There is no set way of using a product for a use it was not intended.

[Nobby]

This thread was started in 2013 and Shaun made reference to using it 12 years previously, somewhere in the back of my mind I seem to remember that Prochem did include enzymes in Powerburst in the original formulation.  If I am right it’s quite likely that Powerburst was an enzyme based product in 2001.

[Jamie Pearson]

They had a product simply called Enzyme Prespray (powdered) but it was withdrawn after a couple of years and powerburst replaced it.

[Nobby]

That’s the one, I’d forgotten it had a different name.  Craftex copied it at the time and they still produce it Powdered Enzyme Pre Spray.

[Glynn]

Powerbust has never had an enzyme in it.
The one that did was Prochem Enzyme Prespray which was replaced with Prochem Hi-Force, then Powerburst.
Personally I dont like the stuff.

[MarkSutcliffe]

SO powerburst doesn't need the enzymes??

vs Enzall then it should do similar job?

[Robin Ray]

SO powerburst doesn't need the enzymes??

vs Enzall then it should do similar job?

Yes a similar job but in a different way. Powerburst uses solvents to break down grease Enzall uses enzymes to digest grease. Both products are excellent.