I cleaned a white cotton berber the other day with cimex and ecap-hydrox, carpets look great and all nice and white. The client calls today and says carpet is crunchy when they walk with bare feet. Do you know why? I am going back to reclean and see what happens. I mixed detergent at 10oz. per gallon. Thanks, Harold

Before re-cleaning vacuum-vacuum-vacuum the carpet.

Don is right vacuum thoroughly and it will probably take care of the problem. I noticed that same thing on some rugs we cleaned with the hydrox. We put our pile lifter on it and it went away real fast. You probably will not need to reclean, just vacuum.

This is why you extract residential or at least use microfiber or cotton pads

I tried Hydrox in my own house and it was "crunchy" also. I did nt think it was that bad and after using a vac it was fine. I m more interested in using it on commercial applications.

The encap polymer is showing its stuff. There's a lot of polymer in every Releasit detergent. That's a big part of what makes it perform as well as it does.

After the carpet is vacuumed well and it gets walked on a bit it will return to its normal soft condition.





Rick Gelinas

what Rick said.

Sounds to me that the dilution may be a little strong.

I have found the same thing with Encap-Punch.

A few good vacuumings or a week or so of walking on it- WALA good to go.

I always took it just like Rick said- the Polymer doing it's job.

It is a choice: Use something that is temporarily crunchy and won't resoil or immediately soft and have the possibility of resoiling.

I am currently doing "pepper tests" from Steve's web site on all the chems I use.  That way I know FIRST HAND what I am dealing with with each and every chemical I use.

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Make your own luck,

Del Scrivner
Owner/Operator
Cowboy's Carpet Care

It does not have to be a choice between soft or crunchy to get great anti soiling results, nor if I was the consumer of a cleaning service would I accept doing the cleaners job of finishing it off to get the end result i want and need.

Carpet comes from the manufacture soft and protected against stains and rapid soiling we can leave it that way also.