[markpowell]

Just check the joins are still in tact, if unsure get the custy to sign a disclaimer!
Mark

[Fintan_Coll]

All good advice, but remember plenty of drying passes.

[Doctor Carpet (Ret'd)]

it sounds a great idea tacking the thing down around the edges but nobody seems to be answering my question - what about those big horrible joins down the middle?

How can we prevent them coming apart here?

Fraser

If they've been properly heat-seamed then there shouldn't be a problem to start with.

When cleaning always clean at an off-set angle when cleaning across a seam.

[will01]

Theres probably some black top around the area "Where the waiters first tread" after coming from the kitchen.

Be sure to tack down this area as it will shrink if you don't. 

Regarding the joins... If unsure just prespray and hwe up until about 6 inches from the join then bonnet the remainder. I like hydramasters' zip dri for this.

Depending on how bad the carpet is around the join it may not come up as well as the rest but you'll have to explain in laymans terms to the owner the reason why.

will

[Steve Barnett (Carpet Care Plus)]

As Roger says, if it's been seamed properly then it will be stronger than the carpet itself. You can stretch away from a correctly seamed join at full force without it splitting it.

Steve

[garyfindlay]

Would a wonderwand keep the carpet dryer, thus less risk?

[Dave Preece]

A wonder wand will leave carpet drier than a conventional wand would, for sure..that's why they are not cheap lol

[markpowell]

Depends who is on the end of the wand!!
Mark

[clinton]

Mark

V true on that

And people think c cleaning is an easy job

[derek west]

Depends who is on the end of the wand!!
Mark

and whats suckin on the other
derek

[Dave Preece]

I agree, carpet cleaning isn't as easy as all that although its getting easier to clean carpets than it is to find them to clean..i  had to do a good deal for the other day on about 200 M of carpet at local Theme park, i should have charged more as when i was finished they said they were ripping it up next year and replacing with hard flooring.so looks like it was just a one off now

[clinton]

Like most large shops and units are now taking there carpets up supose its for h and saftey

[Susan Dean (1stclean)]

i find cleaning these with a rdm it best on full heat running around 550 psi never had any probs what so even

[Griffus]

Hi Clinton

Not yet.

I have to fit it in next week, at the minute it looks like Wednesday all being well.

Just in the process of purchasing an Envirodri Gen4 to help with agitation of pre-spray on larger jobs, such as this. I will then also have the option of dry-cleaning for regular maintenance jobs.

Incidentally,  I have cleaned a BW via HWE already. Just didn't realise. This was on a much smaller scale though; just hall stairs and landing on one of my early practice runs and results were good. Looks like the training courses are doing something right!

Looking forward to the challenge of this one and have all my crossable digits crossed!

I'll post when job done to let you know how it went.

[clinton]

Looks like your doing ok ian..

They dont all go :

There was a big batch in the late 90s that were all prone to shrinkage..

[Bob Allen]

Dont you just wish you had gone in and eaten your curry and walked away.....instead about all these worries?

[Griffus]

Dont you just wish you had gone in and eaten your curry and walked away.....instead about all these worries?

Never 

Then again, ask me next week 

[Jim_77]

Ian,

You've already have some good advice above.  All I can say is I hope you've quoted a nice price for yourself.  This job will probably take you twice as long as you thought and you'll be exhausted at the end of it - both physically and mentally from the worry of watching those edges!

Good luck

P.S. Getting paid might be the hardest part, don't take any crap off em

[Griffus]

Just to confirm that I completed this job today.

Overall it went well. Certainly no shrinkage and the blacktop cleaned away nicely.

One slight niggle; as usual with Polyprop the areas of crushed pile detracted slightly from the overall result.

Thanks again for all the advice, both directly via this post and indirectly via many other posts within this forum.

[Jim_77]

Sounds like you've done it justice Ian

For the future, something to lift the pile better might be a worthwhile investment.  It won't make those worn areas disappear, but it'll hopefully improve them and also help out the rest of the cleaning process in the matted down areas.