Commercial carpet spot cleaning
The first step to removing a carpet spot is to determine what caused the spot or stain, in the first place. Most commercial and institutional carpet spots and stains are caused by spills. But cleaning professionals should find out if the substance causing the spot is a solid or a liquid because each case requires separate spotting agents.
If it’s a spill, you want to reliquify it,flushing the area with water before using any carpet-spotting solutions.
Once the carpet is wet, use a clean, white towel to blot up the water, let the water dwell, then blot it up again.
When working with solid substances, “Start with dry solid spotters, then go to liquid spotters.” “Once you wet something, you won’t have as much success with dry spotters.”
When working with tracked-in or spilled grease on carpet, for example, use a cleaning agent to dissolve the spot, then emulsify it.
“Sometimes you can have a substance that will actually stain the carpet fibers,”such “Coffee, Kool-Aid and Jell-O, for example, add color to the fibers and it won’t come out.”
Most commercial and institutional facilities have stain-resistant carpet, but if a fiber stain occurs, hire a carpet-spotting specialist to get the color out of the carpet.
Just as tough to treat as stains are carpet discolorations. Discoloration caused by bleach, for example, actually removes color from the fibers.
Bleach spots are common in hotels because housekeepers often use bleach products in hotel-room bathrooms. Sometimes bleach drips onto carpet outside bathroom areas.
In the case of a stain or discoloration, general cleaning is not going to take care of it. You made need a professional coloring specialist.
