[Adam P]

been asked to clean a load of carpet in a commercial area. it used to be a print studio and as a result it's got lots of spray ink all over it. not drips of ink but like a fine mist. you can see exactly where every desk, box etc has been as the feet of the desk kept the carpet perfectly clean but the rest is covered.

the tiles are the standard blue ones you find in offices and the ink is black/grey colour.

i'm not entirely confident it'll come up but wanting to give it a go as a test to see if we can do it more than anything. the before and after photos will be great, so have an agreement with the guy if we aren't happy with it, he doesn't pay a penny, else he pays us well.

just looking for advice as to what we could use to get this up.

we've got a Proc 35 CRB and Airflex Turbo with the Magma heater so hopefully have the right tools, it's more the chemicals to use i'm concerned about.

thanks.

[Adam P]

Anyone?

[Mike Halliday]

My first thought is too roll up a towel into a sausage, spray it with your favourite Solvent then rub across the top of the carpet and check for transfer.

But a full carpet of ink unless it's water soluble I would be very iffy about getting it clean, a water based solvent additive might work.

[CleanerCarpets]

yea i agree with Mike, i'd do a smaller test area first rather than slog on the whole thing if it won't budge.

Depends on the ink if it will come out but you say its tiles so you've got to be careful with using solvents otherwise you'll get the bitumen back bleeding through and then you'll be paying for him to have new ones!