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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: mallie on August 27, 2009, 09:58:20 pm

Title: 100% wool rug
Post by: mallie on August 27, 2009, 09:58:20 pm

hi guys, got to clean a rug its 100% wool would prochems prespary gold be ok?
also what about tempreatue  ???
cheers mallie

Title: Re: 100% wool rug
Post by: derek west on August 28, 2009, 09:45:45 pm

sounds like you know more than you think you do mallie.
yes to gold and allthough i don't keep temps down, its supposedly safer if you do on wool.
derek

Title: Re: 100% wool rug
Post by: Mike Osbourne on August 28, 2009, 11:31:56 pm

A picture would be best. For instance it could be an oriental rug that would bleed like buggery even at ph8. If you wand it you might make a mess of it. Or it could be perfectly fine. Need more information.

Title: Re: 100% wool rug
Post by: mark_roberts on August 29, 2009, 12:08:27 am

A cleaning course might help too.

Mark

Title: Re: 100% wool rug
Post by: expro on August 30, 2009, 04:59:19 pm

Mallie. A dye bleed test is a must on wool or wool content carpets / rugs. Prespray Gold is a prochem product , why not give them a ring and go through it with them? .

Title: Re: 100% wool rug
Post by: mallie on September 02, 2009, 09:40:54 am

hi guys cheers for all replys, cleaned rug came up a treat customer well happy. :)

Title: Re: 100% wool rug
Post by: JandS on September 02, 2009, 01:25:57 pm

Just done a lounge and dining room wool carpet.
PSG, dwell, agitate then extracted with Ninja using steamate facility on it.
It was in a good state and owner had vacced prior to my arrival so I thought,
I'll extract using steam but just plain water in tank.
Came up a treat.
Will try this approach again with wool, even to the extent of using Powerburst
as pre spray.
Just a thought, sometimes it's nice to experiment.

John

Title: Re: 100% wool rug
Post by: Mike Osbourne on September 02, 2009, 03:17:15 pm

Quote from: expro on August 30, 2009, 04:59:19 pm

Mallie. A dye bleed test is a must on wool or wool content carpets / rugs. Prespray Gold is a prochem product , why not give them a ring and go through it with them? .

Whilst I would agree with coloured rugs as 'a must' yet some would say it's a waste of time too.

It's very rare that I would test for colour fastness on a wool carpet, especially a plain light colour. So you do that on every wool carpet before you start, leave it to dwell etc?

Title: Re: 100% wool rug
Post by: Ricky M on September 02, 2009, 03:37:49 pm

proper rugs not bonded back and the modern crap, if it bleeds so what , it will stop eventually . fringe work is part of the clean !!
Ive genuinely tested a carpet twice , tested 1 Silk on silk 
rugs should always IMO should be taken away and cleaned .
this testing malarky gets a bit of a pest.

After this last wkd I hate rugs but love the wow factor from the clients
O and the ££££ is nice 

Title: Re: 100% wool rug
Post by: mallie on September 02, 2009, 03:40:00 pm

hi guys i alway test wool rugs or carpets with colour especially when they got red in them, just a habbit i picked up over the years. better to b safe than sorry .once again thanks for all the advice. cheers mallie.

Title: Re: 100% wool rug
Post by: Ricky M on September 02, 2009, 03:45:19 pm

Right so you your test and yes red is a bugger ( unstable )
so if its going to bleed ( migrate ) would you then pass it on to some 1 else
I dont still see the point of all this testing
we should know how to correct before we start any work or seek guidance from an old hand/Book/Web.

All IMO of course