How would you clean this carpet...

[Bernd]

Today i inspected a new customers carpet. It is a wool carpet and looks like a berber.
It has different spots...kids urine...some drink spills and light traffic lanes.

it is not a wall to wall carpet. its a rug of 7 x 5 meter and 5 pices of it.

Can i clean this rugs with the 175 and DS2, pre spray with Punch and treat the drink spills and urine spot isolated with Hydrox. I ask because my HydrOx went out of stock....

Are the products woolsafe?

The last years the housekeeper cleaned the rugs with a kind of small extractor and lots of chemistry and vinegar...it took him 3 days to dry the carpet!

Here is a picture of the rug:

   

[Charles]

Those are drink spills? If so I have cleaned worse wine spills than that with D/S2. 
Carpet looks like low pile almost commercial. It should clean good with d/s2 in your 175 tank
without  pre-spray of punch. 

How long has the urine been on the carpet? You might want to pre-treat that area before
scrubbing and bring your extractor. Use upholstery tool.  Will send a link to you by using WHITE DISTILLED VINEGAR for urine spot.

http://pets.thenest.com/vinegar-neutrali...-4732.html

[Bernd]

Those are drink spills? If so I have cleaned worse wine spills than that with D/S2. 
Carpet looks like low pile almost commercial. It should clean good with d/s2 in your 175 tank
without  pre-spray of punch. 

How long has the urine been on the carpet? You might want to pre-treat that area before
scrubbing and bring your extractor. Use upholstery tool.  Will send a link to you by using WHITE DISTILLED VINEGAR for urine spot.

http://pets.thenest.com/vinegar-neutrali...-4732.html

Thanks Charles. The urine is old...a different cleaner tried to remove it...but made a bigger mess. No odor anymore but a huge yellow spot!

Do you use just the normal dillution of DS2 or do you pre- treat the spill stain in a special way like Rick it adviced in different posts?

Do you scrub this carpets first with the white VCT pad and then go over it again with a microfiber pad or a cotton bonnet?

The Vinegar is succesful for the odor or the colour of the spot?

[Charles]

For the yellow spot test it first with a stronger mix of d/s2.  I just use white pads on the carpets and rake if needed. This carpet is flat no grooming needed. Do you have some fans? If the carpet is real wool it might smell like a wet dog when cleaned until dry. Fans will help the drying process. Build it into your price. Bernd if you think you need microfiber pad after cleaning go ahead and use it. It helps with drying also. Can't hurt the carpet.  When doing estimates bring solution, a brush and towel for test areas. That way you have an idea if the spots/stains will go away. Always pre-test eveything ! Never guarantee that spots/stains will go away. 

Burn test for wool:  Wool:
Chars and curls away from an approaching flame. In the flame, it burns slowly and unevenly. Once pulled out of the flame it is self-extinguishing. It smells like burning hair. It has a brittle, irregular black ash. As with cotton and linen, protein fibers’ ashes readily crumble.

[Bernd]

No, i don´t have fans. So i would absorb as much as posibble with the Superzorbs or Microfiber pads. How strong would you mix it? 1 part DS2 and 3 parts water? Should work as a spotter.

I offered the customer a free estimate or test cleaning of a little part. It could be a bigger job cause the job would be for the city and many jobs could follow.

[Charles]

My spray bottles for testing are at least 1 quart & I fill them 50% water 50% d/s2 & works fine for me. The photo is that as bad as the rug looks? Really that is nothing. Look at this pic. Carpet had all kinds of food in it. 


https://www.flickr.com/photos/52744924@N...res/9Tc57r

https://www.flickr.com/photos/52744924@N...res/hnkJ36

https://www.flickr.com/photos/52744924@N...res/cW5u01

https://www.flickr.com/photos/52744924@N...res/L90U64

Pizza Hut rug https://www.flickr.com/photos/52744924@N...res/12p9q4

https://www.flickr.com/photos/52744924@N...res/66fD54

[encapman]

Stain Magic for wool would be good if you can get it in Germany. If you can't get that you might CAUTIOUSLY use hydrogen peroxide - yep the stuff you buy at the pharmacy. Only one word of caution - you're not supposed to introduce hydrogen peroxide to wool. Ya know what - you're not supposed to get a nasty urine stain on it either.  My point... sometimes we have to break the rules a little. So try some hydrogen peroxide. Also use Encap-Clean DS2 it is wool friendly - notice the cute Wool Friendly logo on the label. : Mix it a little stronger than normal. At 8 oz per gallon you should make a dent in the problem areas. You can also do some spot removal with a much stronger mixture of DS2, mixed 1-4 with water. And at the end of the day, be sure to under promise. This is wool, it's stained, and it sounds like the stains have set up in the rug. But you should be able to improve things.

[encapman]

Stain Magic for wool would be good if you can get it in Germany. If you can't get that you might CAUTIOUSLY use hydrogen peroxide - yep the stuff you buy at the pharmacy. Only one word of caution - you're not supposed to introduce hydrogen peroxide to wool. Ya know what though - you're not supposed to get a nasty urine stain on it either.  My point... sometimes we have to break the rules a little. So try some hydrogen peroxide. Also you can use Encap-Clean DS2 - it is wool friendly (notice the cute Wool Friendly logo on the label).  Mix it a little stronger than normal. At 8 oz per gallon you should make a dent in the problem areas. You can also do some spot removal with a much stronger mixture of DS2, mixed 1-4 with water. And at the end of the day, be sure to under promise. This is wool, it's stained, and it sounds like the stains have set up in the rug. But you should be able to improve things.

[Bernd]

Thanks for your advice. I can't get Stain Magic. Ordered a kind of it in the Uk but TNT send it back cause of the dangerous stuff in it...

I have some Peroxide 35% . Is it to strong or worth a try?

So i could clean the whole rugs with the stronger 8 oz dillution and the spots i will treat with a mixture of 1-4 DS2 .

[Bernd]

My spray bottles for testing are at least 1 quart & I fill them 50% water 50% d/s2 & works fine for me. The photo is that as bad as the rug looks? Really that is nothing. Look at this pic. Carpet had all kinds of food in it. 


https://www.flickr.com/photos/52744924@N...res/9Tc57r

https://www.flickr.com/photos/52744924@N...res/hnkJ36

https://www.flickr.com/photos/52744924@N...res/cW5u01

https://www.flickr.com/photos/52744924@N...res/L90U64

Pizza Hut rug https://www.flickr.com/photos/52744924@N...res/12p9q4

https://www.flickr.com/photos/52744924@N...res/66fD54

Great pictures! Thanks for sharing Charles! Do you work the stronger Spot solution after dwell time with a handbrush or just spray it down and scrub with the pad on the 175?

[encapman]

You could dilute your 35%. About half strength should be ok for wool. Just be careful. Test in an inconspicuous area first (at varying dilutions). Look for color loss. See if color will transfer to a white towel. Use it with caution and rinse it when you're done treating the spots.

[Bernd]

You could dilute your 35%. About half strength should be ok for wool. Just be careful. Test in an inconspicuous area first (at varying dilutions). Look for color loss. See if color will transfer to a white towel. Use it with caution and rinse it when you're done treating the spots.

Ok. I will try it with different dilutions. I have a bit of HydrOx left. What is about this?

1-3 dilution
Spray down
Agitate with handbrush

Or spray down and agitate with the vct during the whole cleaning?

[encapman]

Play with the dilution till you find what works best.

Then proceed as you were planning...

• Spray it down
  
• Agitate with hand brush
  

• And hope that it works.   
  

[Bernd]

You could dilute your 35%. About half strength should be ok for wool. Just be careful. Test in an inconspicuous area first (at varying dilutions). Look for color loss. See if color will transfer to a white towel. Use it with caution and rinse it when you're done treating the spots.

Two parts tab water and one part peroxide to mix half strenght...or should it be destilled water?

[cleancorp]

Distilled water