[Steve Chapman]

Hi all,

Going to look at a job on the local ferry tomorrow,  they have some fairly bad salt stains that need cleaning along with general carpet cleaning, apart from lots of hot water is there anything else that will make light work of it ?

Think some of it has gone quite hard in places so will need to suggest something that is going to be fairly effective.


Regards
Steve

[Phil @ Extreme Clean]

Maybe a steam cleaner to blast the hard bits and soften them before extracting?

[Jim_77]

Salty stains from seamen?  wouldn't touch it personally

[Simon Gerrard]

Steve,
They are next to impossible to remove, so don't over promise on it. They leave really nasty white marks that seem to bleach the carpet.

Simon

[Phil @ Extreme Clean]

haha i was just thinking the same lol all that build up from living life on the seas with nothing but hands and porn haha.

[Linds Russell]

I'm not sure if its the same kind of relevant chemistry but last winter, we had lots of success on white council grit stains using Chemspec DFC 210 pre spray followed by DFC 105 rinse.

Linds

[Simon Gerrard]

Completely different kind of salt, these stains are saline which bleaches the carpet and begins to rot it making removal impossible, especially as most have been there for a long time.
Simon

[Steve Chapman]

Ok thanks for the advice,

its useful to know that they can bleach the carpet as i know they will probably suggest that they should come out easy as always  :

Will see what happens

Cheers