Basics of Spot and Stain Removal

In every household there is at least one person to leave trail of stains and spots behind. These stains can be like grease spots from garage to attic, a path of gingerbread crumbs, paints, sauce, pet urine stain. So with carpet cleaning strategies you can effectively clean your carpet. It can be anything and what makes it worse is that different treatment is required for different stains. You need to work quickly to treat the stains with basics of spot and carpet stain removal.

Given below are some basics of treating stains on your carpet

Petroleum Based Stains

For these types of stains, such as grease, ink, and oil, you need to look for organic solvents or dry solvents. Dry solvents are capable of dissolving oil based soils through agitation. And sometimes water based detergents are used in conjunction with dry solvents.

Whenever you are cleaning olefin or polyester carpets it is important to notice that oily soils can easily penetrate through carpet fibers, which means that dry or organic solvent must also penetrate through Fiber to remove the soil. Now you will have an additional challenge of sticky residue on the carpet, rinse it with hot detergent water or a volatile dry solvent will also decrease the future resoiling issues. But whenever you are using dry solvents for carpet cleaning, always maintain a proper ventilation system.

Protein Stains

Enzyme treatments or protein digesters are very useful to clean stubborn protein stains, like feces, vomit, or blood stains from your carpet. As long as you follow the manufacturer's directions, these enzyme products will always work well. Enough contact time of these products with stains is very important to make sure that you adhere to the dwell time recommended by the manufacturer.

Water Soluble Stains

Tracked in mud, water based pens and markers, food and beverages are some water soluble stains. These stains are very easy to remove by just using water based cleaning agents.

Organic or Natural Stains

Some water soluble stains like tea or coffee are difficult to eliminate because heat of the liquid attaches substance to carpet fibers. Even after carpet stain removal these substances can leave tannin stain behind. Use any oxidizing agent to remove these organic or natural stains. Some other organic stains which can be easily eliminated with oxidizing agents are beverage and food colorants, like in ketchup, grape juice, mustard, and other condiments.

Man made or Synthetic Stains

Stains caused by red dyes in sports drinks requires a reducing agent and can affect nylon carpets more than any other carpet. You can use any reducing agent with a wet towel and any heat source like steam iron for carpet stain removal. To protect carpet fibers from the negative effects of the heat, use a disposable, damp, white cotton towel in between. This is a basic example of dealing with man made stains on your carpet.

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