I wanted to share some great results I had.
Accidental gasoline stain over three years ago. Over the years it has gotten progressively worse with dirt being ground into it. Read about Folex on this forum and actually bought it a while ago to do spot cleaning on on my car interior carpets in a different car.
A week ago I thought there was nothing to lose so I tried it on a small spot. It worked great. I worked on it another night and got it all removed. Then, I figured I'd try learning how to shampoo an interior carpet. I was very pleased with the results.
Process:
- Vacuumed carpet
- spot cleaned the very large stain with Folex
- Mixed up Simple Green in a bucket 30:1 and applied it by larges sponge to the carpet making sure it got rubbed in well.
- Used scrub brush and worked the whole area well.
- extracted with wet/dry vac
- Filled pail with very warm water. Used large terry cloth towel soaked with water to saturated carpet after first extraction.
- working in sections, I extracted the warm water to remove extra dirt but more importantly to remove any remaining APC residue.
Hope this is helpful to other newbies like the many other threads have been to me.
Here are the pics:
So I tried a test spot and it turned out very well ( area circled in red )
50/50 shots. This kept me motivated
Decided to shampoo the whole section of carpet with a Simple Green solution ( 30:1). I even made those extraction stripes. Not bad for a newbie!!
Here's the crud that came out from the extraction process. There was more than this but I had to dump it once.
Thanks again for every one that posts on this site. I have learned so much and am now comfortable to tackle things I wouldn't have even considered before.
Accidental gasoline stain over three years ago. Over the years it has gotten progressively worse with dirt being ground into it. Read about Folex on this forum and actually bought it a while ago to do spot cleaning on on my car interior carpets in a different car.
A week ago I thought there was nothing to lose so I tried it on a small spot. It worked great. I worked on it another night and got it all removed. Then, I figured I'd try learning how to shampoo an interior carpet. I was very pleased with the results.
Process:
- Vacuumed carpet
- spot cleaned the very large stain with Folex
- Mixed up Simple Green in a bucket 30:1 and applied it by larges sponge to the carpet making sure it got rubbed in well.
- Used scrub brush and worked the whole area well.
- extracted with wet/dry vac
- Filled pail with very warm water. Used large terry cloth towel soaked with water to saturated carpet after first extraction.
- working in sections, I extracted the warm water to remove extra dirt but more importantly to remove any remaining APC residue.
Hope this is helpful to other newbies like the many other threads have been to me.
Here are the pics:
So I tried a test spot and it turned out very well ( area circled in red )
50/50 shots. This kept me motivated
Decided to shampoo the whole section of carpet with a Simple Green solution ( 30:1). I even made those extraction stripes. Not bad for a newbie!!
Here's the crud that came out from the extraction process. There was more than this but I had to dump it once.
Thanks again for every one that posts on this site. I have learned so much and am now comfortable to tackle things I wouldn't have even considered before.
