[heritagecleaning]

Tomorrow I have to do some landings and about 40 stairs of a 3-storey office building where the top floor has been converted to apartments. The builders have been up and down the stairs for the last 6 months.

I haven't done one like this before. Obviously a good vac, but I'm wondering if it's worth pre spraying or if I'd be better just flushing it through? Also not sure on the solution temp / best chemical. If I was going to do a single pass I was thinking of using Liquid High Heat.

Any thoughts appreciated.

Cheers


Owen

[Simon Gerrard]

Own,
Trial and error until you find something that works.

Simon

[Neil Jones]

Probably not relevant but I did one last year laid on laminate and the house had undergone extensive renovation. A cream, off white colour polypropylene and soon as I extracted the carpet turned black. Absolutely horrendous.

I'd go with Simon and test test test!

[Simon Gerrard]

That's the danger when cleaning very dusty carpets, they can turn black, or look very much worse because the carpet is choked with dust. So do a test patch on the worst area, when you find a technique to get that clean then the rest should be easy.

Simon

[Carpet Dawg]

A pile lifter would be ideal here. But I have done loads of these types of jobs and never had any problems.

I would say a good heavy pre-spray would help to clump the dirt together before extraction.

[Griffus]

Worst I had was full of plaster, after a while it was confirmed as totalled.