While we were in Australia last month we spoke with John Kelley, a carpet cleaner from South Australia. John told us about an incredible experience he had cleaning a huge puddle of SUMP OIL from a carpet with Releasit Encap-Clean DS. John cleans the carpet at a building with a revolving restaurant at the top. A seal in the system broke and produced a very large puddle of sump oil on the carpet in the hotel below the restaurant. John was able to completely remove the thick puddle of sticky sump oil with Releasit alone!
When John arrived he evaluated the situation and concluded that he'd have to use a ton of potent solvents/degreasers to remove the spot if he were to clean it with HWE. The building was occupied at the time, and the thought of using smelly solvents did not seem like a good option. He was also concerned that using a high level of solvents might damage the carpet, possibly causing delamination of the carpet backing. Plus he figured it would be a nightmare flushing all that oil out of the carpet with HWE equipment.
John knew from past experience that he'd seen Releasit handle oily conditions very well. So he got creative and decided to do something kind of crazy! He decided to "shampoo" the puddle of sump oil out of the carpet. He decided to perform a mutli-step cleaning and went on to clean the carpet over the course of 3 installments. He set up barriers and asked the staff to try to keep people off the affected area between cleanings.
The cool thing is that it worked! John totally eliminated the sump oil 100% using Releasit. How cool is that? The only additional component in this equation was that John added some odor counteractant to the carpet because he said that the sump oil had a very pungent odor.
I've always known that our encap polymer LOVES oil. That's not a secret. But I would never have expected that the polymer could have consumed this much oil. (If John had contacted me to ask if he could encap a puddle of sump oil - I'd have told him no) But John's intuition about Releasit's ability to remove oil was proved true. Now John did mix the Releasit strong and he foamed the carpet up real good on all 3 cleanings. But the results he got demonstrates that our encap polymer in Releasit is capable of some pretty amazing stuff when it comes to pulling oil from a carpet!
John graciously gave me permission to use his amazing story in our advertising. Here is a copy of an ad we put together featuring John's experience cleaning sump oil with Releasit...
http://www.excellent-supply.com/adelaide.pdf
Rick Gelinas
rick@excellent-supply.com
I have a few of my own success stories using DS Releasit with my Chemstractor and greasy pizza restaurants.
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