[david@zap-clean]

Anyone seen/cleaned any of this stuff yet?

[Craigp]

Water sensitive, dry clean only.

I wouldn't bother results will be limited, likely unhappy customer.

What condition is it in?

[Paul Moss]

In the same league as bamboo and paper carpets. Shaun will be along soon to say the has cleaned hundreds 

[elliott cleaning]

Faux silk or viscose as you rightly call it - alternatively Rayon - same thing. Yes it is cleanable but with care. Do you clean viscose suites??

What gets me is why people would buy faux silk carpets!!

Whereas silk contrary to what many think is a relatively robust fibre - viscose is useless in terms of strength and wears poorly - prone to yellowing and fibre breakage

[DB]

That's cheap...the sample I have costs £450 per square metre 

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Elliott's cleaning has said it all, I cleaned one on Wednesday recommended by the company that supplied it, allowing a dog on it and situated in a tv room isn't a good idea biggest tv I've ever seen though.

I'm pretty sure DB has seen and cleaned just about every carpet known to man same as frans in his leafy suburb when you've been in the trade for a long time you see some real eye openers of what people will buy..and they say there's no money around 

Shaun

[Paul Moss]

  told you .

Shaun how did you clean it, any pics? 

[Jamie Pearson]

i did a bedroom carpet of that stuff that cost £180k.

The fitter had cut himself and bled all over it.

I have another to do on 20th December.

Nice article in NCCA newslink by Paul Pearce about it this month.

[davep]

180k on a carpet? With all the people on this planet without food homes etc that's a disgrace!

[Mike Halliday]

i did a bedroom carpet of that stuff that cost £180k.

What's that new film out on Boxing Day with Steve Carrell ?

[mark shannon]

Is it the same as Art Silk?

[elliott cleaning]

Yes, Mark.

'Art' is just the abbreviation for 'artificial'

[mark shannon]

Interior designer installed this for a client with 2 kids a dog and a cat, within a week dog urinated in the middle of it !
I had to get a carpet fitter in to cut out a large whole and reseam in a replacement.

[garybristow]

presumably you saw the article in the ncca monthly magazine?
if not paul pearce has done an article on it,he tells you all the options
gary

[david@zap-clean]

Yep, I saw the article, that's the reason for asking this thread question.  I haven't see any, yet.

I was in a high-end property recently that had some wall to wall carpet that looked like zebra hide! And in the same property, several bedrooms carpeted with what looked like Arran jumper type woven wool.  I didn't test as I wasn't asked to clean it (just quote)... I've no idea what the type/value of either were.

[Brendan (chem2clean)]

hi david,it can get choppy looking after you clean it.Its can look like the piles distorted .Try to get all the pile groomed in the same direction.A good tip when grooming is add some isotopol alcohol and clothes softner and mist the carpet and groom...