So today, I am gonna clean a 3 piece set of Novasuede furniture in the family room, not carpets in this house.

In front of the sofa, under the coffee table was a wine spill, about 6 x 12 inches. I gotta move the coffee table to work on the sofa. The carpet did not need cleaned. Olefin berber carpet.

I ask the lady if she would like me to remove the wine spill. She sez yes. OK, I can remove the wine several ways, but I want to try the Releasit first and see what, if anything it did. Since I am gonna be there several hours doing the furniture, the wine spill would be dry by the time I finished the furniture. If it failed, I would remove the wine with other products.

OK, I sprayed on the 50-50 mix brushed it in, and toweled it off. Gone. OK, maybe it might come back as it dried. I kept an eye on it as I worked on the furniture. I finished finally, checked the wine spill. No sign of it.

Now, I am not gonna say at this point Releasit is always good for a wine spill, but in this case, it worked!!

Oh yeah. Second job, just a spot removal of graphited oil under a small swivel rocker where the man wanted to move the chair, picked it up by the arms, and set it down where he wanted it, but failed to realize he had not also picked up the base. The post part of the chair with the graphited oil on it made a big black smear on the carpet, some 2 inches by 6 or 7 inches.

I did try the Releasit on a small area, but it did not work. I did remove the spot with POG though.

So, it's not a total cure-all.

Gary

Gary you're title was clearly misleading.

I thought you were gonna show us some new way to perform encapping...
Left hand holding the machine.
Right hand holding a 97 Cabernet.

I'll just have to try to contain my disapointment.


Rick Gelinas

Naw, that's called "encapping and boozing" which can significantly decrease the quality and may or may not affect the time it takes to do the job....not that you would notice.....seriously Gary, keep up the posts on your personal experience. I may not always post but I enjoy and am learning from you and others. Thanks, Jim

Gary, since we know truck mounted steam cleaning well and it is a mutually common shared experience, it would be nice if you would drag out your truck mount and test half and half on these things so that we can have a point of reference for comparisons (not that I am looking for encap to beat truck mounts in any or all cases, but rather so we have a comparitive study). Obviously in this case that would be extremely inconvenient.

I suppose that if encap could get the wine spot out, any other cleaning method might have too, but it is plain amazing that it would touch the wine at all. And it is certainly nice to know that it will work and gives me more faith in the product. I suppose that the carpet must have been well protected.

By the way, why were you drinking wine while working and how on earth did you convince the customer to pay you to get your own spillage off the carpet? Can you do that with urine? Hehe.

P.S. Do you still drink Bio-Break?