[roger underhill]

Hi,
had a job last week, blue dye off new jeans onto a white cotton mix seat cushion. Cleaned using pure clean and them m/s with no improvement. Tried chemspec hiathian cotton shampoo, still no improvement.

Any suggestions.

Also today had call, new 80/20 light brown 50oz twist pile...you guessed it, blue jean dye after kids had been playing x-box on their knees in front of tv.
tried an assortment of stain removers all with no transfer of the blue onto white cloth.

Any suggestions
cheers all

[markpowell]

Roger,
You need to use an oxidising bleach or reducing agents

[Kev Loomes]

An  oxidizer probably wont touch it, and reducers = poss loss of fibre colour so be careful.

They may be stuck with it.

[roger underhill]

Yet another today.....on very light dralon,

Are the dyes being used for jeans changed I wonder with all the outsourcing
to the third world ect....Never had so many of these problems years ago!

[murky]

If you remember when we were all young (!) we all wore real jeans like Levi's and Lee Riders jeans and you desperatly wanted them to fade down from dark blue to a cool faded blue which often took a few months to achieve.

And we all paid top dollar for them, well if you are paying £10.00 and less for a pair of jeans that are made in the far east with inferior materials what do we expect but the dye to run etc.

This time last year I cleaned a Linen Union suite that was about 20 years old for regular custy, made a good job of it despite its age.

Parents go away for a week, daughter back from uni, spends the week lounging around on the sofa, parents call me back to see if I could get the dark blue dye off the cushions where she had been sitting with her £10 Tesco specials. Tried everything, no chance!!!!!!! They even tried Arial on hot wash in the end but the cushions were ruined.

Murky

[craigp]

Its only while the jeans are new, I noticed a worning I had stuck on some new jeans mentioned not wearing on light coloured soft furnishings while new so the jean manufactures are aware and had done something, which is good.

I agree with Kev not much you can do its a dye after all! try cleaning it off the jeans! 500 washes and its still there! what chance have we got.

[edward coller]

Do a Lot Of Upholstery cream in partricular and the best  product that we use and find to work is the Ammoniated full strength uph cleaner from Hydramaster  spray on aggitate an extract clears majority of dye and also clears your bronchials when used neat.... Simon

[Amethyst]

I'd second that  - cleaned a light cream suite today with dye transfer from new jeans. Tried Fabric Conditioner - no good, tried Blitzz (from TCS) - no good - H/D prespray from Hydramaster (used neat) - Result!!