carpet cleaning

MimiF

Hiya Tee Pee,

I shall be doing something similar today in the kids room. There are a couple of marks where DD has dropped her beaker of milk at night and it has leaked on to the carpet, even when wiped up with cloth and disinfectant it seems to leave a mark. I thought of using a solution of water and bio powder as this is essentially a "protein/enzyme type thingy" stain and bio powders are designed to "eat" into those things.

It may or may not work but it's worth a try. Word of advice, try a corner of the carpet first that can't be seen just in case the powder lightens it or something, I'm not so fussed about the kids carpet, it couldn't possibly look any worse!!! :rotfl:

Good luck.
MimiF

immoral_angeluk

We have a cream carpet as well as a toddler and I rely on biological washing powder in hot water, rubbed into the carpet and then left to dry before being hoovered. Our carpet isn't perfect but it's a hell of a lot better than it was!

tee_pee_2

immoral_angeluk wrote:

We have a cream carpet as well as a toddler and I rely on biological washing powder in hot water, rubbed into the carpet and then left to dry before being hoovered. Our carpet isn't perfect but it's a hell of a lot better than it was!

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How strong it the solution? I am going to try this but just need a few pointers, do you put it on thick or just a watery solution that you scrub with?

itsarichmansworld

Any suggestions on a old style way to clean carpets?

I have a steamer but any products that will help much appreciated!:money: :money:

angchris

in my living room i have a lovely cream carpet which now has a lovely big dark brown patch on it :mad:
my son brought a big bag of pears and a big bag of cooking apples home a while back and he put them in the corner of my living room on the carpet untill i found something to do with them, now the bag with the pears in had a few rotten/overripe in the bottom of the bag (unknown to me :rolleyes: ) which was mush when i got back to them (probably due to the weight of the pears squashing the others) after going away for the weekend and it had leaked all over the carpet :mad: i have scrubbed and scrubbed the mark with stardrops/warm water but to no avail it still looks horrible , thought about using bleach on it at least a light stain would be better than dark brown.... any suggestions from you guys??

Icemaiden

It does suprise me that stardrops hasn't shifted it so I would give Vanish Oxi action stain remover for carpets & upholstery a go. It is about £2 quid and comes in a spray bottle so you can tackle the stain direct. Other than that you may have to borrow or hire a carpet cleaner. HTH

vivw_2

I have seen stardrops mentioned a few times but have no idea what it is . Can someone enlighten me

thanks

QuidsInn_2

vivw - there is a HUGE thread somewhere on here for Stardrops - sorry I am no good at posting links, but do a search for Stardrops and Voila! I am a newbie to the stuff and it is fantastic!

johnjp

If the carpet, as I suspect, has a jute fibre backing then you have a problem called `Browning`. It probably isn`t the juice from the fruit itself that is causing the problem but the fact that the juice has penetrated into the backing of the carpet. Then the brown pigment of the jute backing migrates up through the tufts and shows as a brown stain. The result is an acidic stain derived from the `lignin` in the jute.
It would be best to contact a trained carpet cleaner. Look in the`Yellow Pages` for the ones that are `NCCA` or `Prochem` certified ONLY. They will have the expertise to evaluate the problem, analyse the carpet structure and use the appropriate remedy. But I feel a warning is necessary. You may have done the wrong thing using `Stardrops` and caused the stain to `fix`, so you might be contacting the home insurance co.!

sallywl

well we have our own house as of yesterday and i am soon to attack the rented accom ready to hand back.

We have horrible pale green carpets which stair really easily and they were stained b4 we got here but are a little worse now.

I have stardrops and starclen.... can I use these on old stains? is there anything else i can use?

any tips...

a really desperate sarah!