Question:

Any in particular that I should try to remove a slight orange-ish stain on a multi color green commercial loop carpet?

Pipe broke with minimal water about 2 weeks ago and now has slight orange tint.

I am going to use cimex, releasit. Anything else to throw in there, citric acid?

Thanks for the help

Bryan

YES, citric acid will work perfectly. Mix up the citric acid at a heaping tablespoon per gallon of Releasit. Clean with this mixture in your Cimex with MINIMAL moisture. Make plenty of dry scrubbing passes. Do NOT over-wet the spot. Accelerate the drying, and put a fan on it if you can. After the spot has been scrubbed with the acid based cleaner, you could apply a few squirts of 50/50 Releasit and water from a spray bottle - and then scrub it in to prevent wicking.

P.S. Any strong acid based spotter could be used to treat the spot, even coffee stain remover can do the trick.







Rick Gelinas
rick@excellent-supply.com

Since Releasit is an alkaline 8.5pH ?? wouldn't the citric acid being mixed WITH it neutralize both products??

Releasit Encap-Clean is not dependent entirely on pH alone to get the job done. The product works even at a lower pH. Encap-Clean will continue to clean very well, even with a reduced pH, straight down to the acid side of the scale.






Rick Gelinas
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I have cleaned poly's with cellulosic browning just with Releasit and had good results.

With nylon it's a different story, and with wool, entirely different again

We also use a product based on hydrogen peroxide to neutralise the cellulosic browning, although I think in the 'states; you have action back & not jute as is the case down under.

Our jute backed carpet has much more severe staining, trust me.

Cheers,

Shorty.

I've seen the light, and changed my wicked ways.
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Hey Shorty, We get some Jute up here in the states. Not as much as we used to, but I had to pull some out of a house the other day from a sewer flood that was only 3 years old.

Interesting thread with the Citric Acid trick. I will have to try it. On a lot of these types of stains they come out with just EncapClean DS in my experience. The ones that don't I now know an easy way to remove them.

Kevin Pearson

I'd like to come from a different angle. He said the stain is orange. Would that not indicate rust? Would rust be treated the same way?

Mark, an acid will remove rust in most cases.





Rick Gelinas
rick@excellent-supply.com

Thanks for help gentlemen,

Will be tackling the issue tonight. It is a light stain. I will try to take some pics before and after.

Bryan

It was a poly mix commercial loop.

Pictures did not come out that great because of the lighting in the hallway.

All worked well 2 tablespoons for 2 gal of DS mixed with hot water. Also spot cleaned some blue multi color and it worked on that also.

Just finished also fixing a previous cleaner's mess at a church where he streaked the h#$% out of it. Was wet for 2 days, what a moron!!! Used grey pads and had to take 2 dry passes every wet pass, it was messed up so bad. I'll post pics of that tomorrow.

Thanks again.


Bryan