[Neil Grainger]

Hi All

Can anyone give me any advice on removing blacktop from Pub Carpets.

Cheers

Neil

[cloverclean]

What sort of cleaning system are you using

[homenclean]

Good pre spay with craftex champion, work in with pile brush leave for few min, light spay of champion and extract at temperature. depending on how bad may need a few passes. I do a lot off pubs and this works a treat, make sure the landlord can see you do it they are normally ammazed, ask about additional work at this point after they have seen what you can do.

Good luck

John

[Neil Grainger]

Clean using HWE extraction.

Cheers

Neil

[john rees]

Hi Neil
          The best product I've found is hydramaster blitz, quicker than anything I've ever used! used it today in a lounge believe it or not.....it was in a flat attached to an indian resaurant where all the staff live!!!! and they had walked about 5 years worth of grease straight into there from the kitchen! if I knew how to put a pic on here I'd show you!
                      All the best
                                        John

[Neil Grainger]

Hi John

Thanks ofr that, What was the process of cleaning that you used, Its my first pub so not come across this before.

Sorry to sound stupid.

Cheers

Neil

[PaulKing]

multisolv works like a charm

[stevegunn]

chemspec enz-all

[Len Gribble]

Neil

Never stupid, I don’t agitate this type of work dwell time is good, agents Multi-pro/ Blitz. Care with what’s underneath, last one two five pence (profit ) and 100’s of bit’s of gum.

Steve

Can I have my pictures back as you don’t do the real black top?

Len

[carpetclean]

its worth taking note of lens comments as he showed me some pics of his work and very impressive

[john rees]

Hi neil,
          I used a T/M but when you pre spray with blitz you can see it breaking the grease down before even rinsing!but give some dwell time.so I'm sure a good hot portable would be ok to use, but perhaps more passes with the wand would be needed.
                                All the best
                                                 John

[angela carlton]

A word of caution Neil

Many premises of this type have wool, or worse Belgian wilton carpets with the obvious danger of shrinkage, which is a strong possibility when attempting to remove blacktop

Angie

[Eric Lloyd]

One of my first jobs was a pub carpet with serious blacktop. Used Prochem Hiforce Prespray (now superseded by Power Burst) sprayed it on, agitated with orbis rotary brush, extracted with HWE with Blazer t/m, came up a treat - see pics. if they come through.

[cleanability]

Out of interest I've cleaned many black tops from admittedly wool Axminsters and never shrunk one even with mulitiple upon multiple passes of my Scrubba brush. Why havent they shrunk? I have spoken with a pub carpet fitter once who explained to me they actually stick the carpet down with some sort of glue. Stuck to what I'm not sure, not I floor I suspect. Any ideas out there?

thanx
Chris

[Liahona]

Underlay is glued to the floor and the carpet is glued to the underlay. Very common in pubs. Best, Dave.

[Neil Grainger]

Struggling to get hold of Hydramaster blitz, everybody is out of stock. even hydramaster are stuggling. waiting delivery from the states

Please help anybody

Is their a good Prochem alturnative?

[carpetclean]

woodbridge have a similar product to blitz

[john rees]

Hi Neil
          Try cleansmart
                             all the best John

[Dave Parry]

Neil I have some.

[darren_metcalfe]

Chemspec Enz All. Did a job last week nothing would touch it, defo needed an enzyme of sorts.  Used enzall took it straight out.  Needed to give it a long dwell time about 40 mins with additional wetting and agitation.