[Keith Durkin]

Hi all,
          I am fairly new in the carpet cleaning world, and work has been fairly steady although at the mo' slow.
I have however this evening received a phone call from a customer who has spilt curry on a white woolen rug.
Any ideas on how to remove the stain - if possible. I am collecting the rug tomorrow.
Any help greatly received.

   Keith

[peter maybury]

I would invest is some training before experimenting on customers property.
Curry removal normally requires the use of bleaches. Many chemicals are also detrimental to wool fibres.
Peter

[peter maybury]

You cannot assume though that a Chinese rug is going to be wool, there are a lot of acrylic one out there.
Peter

[Paul Evans]

Hi all,
          I am fairly new in the carpet cleaning world, and work has been fairly steady although at the mo' slow.
I have however this evening received a phone call from a customer who has spilt curry on a white woolen rug.
Any ideas on how to remove the stain - if possible. I am collecting the rug tomorrow.
Any help greatly received.

   Keith

where is Chinese mentioned in this ?

To answer your question, do not guarantee results. If the curry contains TUMERIC your probably on a loser.
Dye-gone would be my approach ( if experienced with the product )

Paul

[Keith Durkin]

Thanks for your replies,
                                    I have had training, nearly a year ago at Cleansmart. The rug is Tibetan hand knotted wool made in Nepal. I know I have to be careful with wool, and I never guarantee anything.
I don't have dye-gone but I do have dye x , would that do the job ?

[Simon Gerrard]

Thanks for your replies,
                                    I have had training, nearly a year ago at Cleansmart. The rug is Tibetan hand knotted wool made in Nepal. I know I have to be careful with wool, and I never guarantee anything.
I don't have dye-gone but I do have dye x , would that do the job ?

Well then be exceptionally careful. Chemicals like Dyegone are only a last resort and even then in my experience it rarely works and can cause more problems than it solves.

Simon

[clive ware]

Half the time, I find dye gone actually makes the stain worse initially and I then treat it with sodium met after rinsing. The combination of the two for some reason seems to work better than just the one product.
Ok it leaves a massive hole in the carpet but at least the stain is gone!

[Adrian Walton]

You could also try magic from master blend, i think solutions sell a similar named product but not sure its the same stuff but as been said go easy as you can remove the base colour from the rug.

[Robin Ray]

Before you try any of that try an acid rinse, you probably have rinse-x. Mix it to 8-1 spray, agitate carefully with a spatula, leave to dwell for a little while then rinse with cold water. Do that a few times. It probably wont be any where near enough, but it should be your first port of call.

[John Kelly]

Dyegone is one of our best selling products so its obviously working for some people.

[Keith Durkin]

Thanks for all your replies.
                                        The customer is going down the insurance route as it is an expensive rug. Having seen the rug, I would be surprised if the stains did come out.


 
         Keith

[Angela Dean]

Dye Gone is one of the best products available for stain removal, but as others have said it would depend on the actual make up of the rug and fibres if you could risk using it or not

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[Simon Gerrard]

Thanks for all your replies.
                                        The customer is going down the insurance route as it is an expensive rug. Having seen the rug, I would be surprised if the stains did come out.         Keith

You've done the right thing, anything you're not certain you can deal with, either pass it on to someone who can, or decline it.
I'm no rug cleaning expert but experience has taught me to know my limitations and pass on anything I'm not 100% confident with.

Simon

[stuart_clark]

Dye gone is and can be a good problem solver but it is hydrogen peroxide based as the help mate before it came out and can quite easily remove colour as well as the stain, so I would always use it with extreme caution


Stuart

[Doug Holloway]

You have to be extremely careful with using peroxide based bleaches as they are not selective and will lighten the whole area sprayed.

I have found reducing bleaches to be more selective in removing say tannin.

Curry will be permanent on any natural fibre.

Cheers

Doug

[Mike Halliday]

 I did a call back today from a job I did on monday! It was an empty rental were the tenants had done a runner, it was covered in stains.

They called me back as they were unhappy with the amount of stains remaining

They said if it could'nt Be cleaned any better they would replace it, so gave me permission to do what ever.

I mixed a peroxide, ammonia &. distilled water at 1-1-2  and  attacked all the stains with that mix and an iron.

every stain was improved with some totally disappearing. The carpets were a plain wool mix. some areas did show slight lightening but not really bad.