I was thinking the EXACT same thing.Greenie said:funny, the rinse says Safe for Wool, but list a pH of 12.2 :shock:
davegill said:i got a call from a local resturant asking if we could please come fix what the last cleaner did. on christmas eve the guy came in with a port and some grease eraser and went to town, i get the call on sat because it is still wet and smells like ass...really bad, to the point that customers are walking out. i go out sat afternoon and yes it stinks bad..smells like wet resturant carpet..(it is a wing joint) about 1100 sqft of cgd. i re clean and add 2 oz per gallon of quat..mand the carpet was night and day cleaner and the smell was 95% gone..i set up 3 blowers and left..i checked in with him this morning and he said it was so much better but was still just a little bit there..no walk outs or even mentions from customers but the staff and him still had a little twinge.
should i go back and just lay down some more quat at 2oz per gallon and let it work its magic? i dont because it was wet for 3 days festering that it is in the system and needs to just air out or if it is there head. i am going to go back out there as soon as i get my game plan down, if i am going to just quat it i will go out there tonight just before they close so it can sit all night with blowers on..
thanks
dave
Jim Pemberton said:Regarding the Microban CCS and 12.2...
Don't be fooled by pH numbers. Its the amount of buffering agents that make a product "safe" or "unsafe" for wool and SR, not simpy the pH.
We owe Jim Smith alot for having the courage to bring this up repeatedly until now the old
"4.5-8.5" mantra is being replaced with "products formulated for wool carpet".
The same thing goes with the "10 or under is safe for stain resistant carpet". There are things under 10 that are so highly buffered they'll strip the SR right off of a carpet, and products over 10 that won't.