Carpet Stain & Odour Removal
When we steam clean or dry clean
your carpets, spot and stain removal is included in the
price.
However, if at the completion
of cleaning there are stains and odours that have not
been removed in the cleaning process, they will require
additional treatment.
We will discuss with you
whether the stain will respond to extra treatment and
the likelihood of the stain being able to be removed,
partially removed or lightened.
Stains that require heat
transfer method for removal can take up to 30 minutes
per stain. Please note that some stains that are deemed
permanent may not respond satisfactorily to any
treatment. For this reason we cannot guarantee removal
of permanent stains.
A Stain Removal
Example:
A light beige
coloured nylon carpet is heavily stained with 12
materials (FIG 1). The materials are allowed to set for
14 days. The carpet is then cleaned with the hot water
extraction method. It can also be cleaned by sponging
with carpet detergent and blotting with towelling.
The extraction cleaning removes all the staining
material which did not set into the carpet fibres. Most
stains are still obvious with the exception of cola and
strawberry jam which the cleaning process was able to
remove (FIG 2).
The carpet is now sprayed with the treatment solution
and allowed to dry. The Worcestershire, soya and tomato
sauce have been removed (FIG 3). Reduced in intensity
but still visible are: wine, Betadine, coffee, orange
cordial, Mercurochrome and Iodine.
To speed up the
removal of the more difficult stains, the solution is
again sprayed, then a hot steam iron is placed on the
stains with a towel underneath (FIG 4). This operation
is repeated a few times and the carpet allowed to dry.
Now only a few traces of staining material remain (FIG
5). Again the solution is sprayed and the hot steam iron
used. The Mercurochrome stain is now the only one
visible (FIG 6). It took 15 spray applications, without
using the iron, to completely remove the Mercurochrome.
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