Asphalt Plant offices

[Lyman]

I clean there offices every couple months. The carpet in gdc and I can't seem to get the yellowish, tan color out from the asphalt plant out back. Is there any thing that would help.

 

[bob vawter]

mineral spirits........is it!

 

[Shawn Forsythe]

Pro’s Choice Energy added to a good olefin prespray like Chemspec's Commercial Olefin Prespray, or use Citra-Quick.

 

[Dolly Llama]

it's quite possible it's permenent.
strong degreasers and oxys are the best we've found.

still possible it's permenent though.
example;
fill a poly bottle half full with gas, oil or diesel fuel.
let set for a couple weeks, then dump it and see the stain it made on the bottle.
I defy any chem expert to remove that staining.
It's permenent and become "part of" the plastic.

same effect can happen on poly/olie carpets

..L.T.A.

 

[Lyman]

Tried energy with no results, citra products straight, no good. MS,? how to apply.

 

[ronald pantelas]

Would prochems yellow rx help with an application? then extract. Check with Pemberton or Warrington on this. Ron

 

[ruff]

Is it Olefin or nylon?
Olefin is a by product of the oil industry and the asphalt which is the same will practically bond with the fiber.
The only thing that may help is an oxidizer and I doubt it will.
The citrus based solvents many times bond with olefin as well.

Best approach?
Congratulate them for the new color of their carpeting.

Good luck
Ofer

 

[Ron Lippold]

rickys stuff has worked well for me in that situation

 

[Jeremy]

Light mist of BP SOlvent Clean & an OP machine with a wet towel. Releasit DS & Punch (8oz to a gallon each) boosted with 4 oz of 30 volume peroxide can help too.

 

[bob vawter]

I almost lost a big account one time because of this very problem.......the big boss came in and insisted that we try some mineral spirits before tossing the carpet......i poo paaed the idea...but finally relented when he sED that he would get someone else to come in and do it!

use as a pre-spray

it worked lik a charm...

so poo-paa away!

 

[J Scott W]

I had an asphalt plant to clean for several years. Spot cleaning weekly. Monthly clean the traffic lanes. Twice a year we did over all cleaning.

The best appearance we got was bonnet cleaning with Argosheen which has a lot of mineral spirits / stoddard solvent. Semi-annual cleaning was HWE with a lot of heat. Stayed pretty good, but if we ever got behind the olefin portions tended to yellow pretty quickly.

Spot cleaning was also done with an odorless mineral spirits product.

Of course, there are health and safety issues with minderal spirits and Argosheen, so be careful.

HWE and regular thorough vacuuming was needed to keep tracked in particulates from over-whelming the carpet.


That job was before the newest encap products were available. I think encap helps - up to a point. But the soils needs to be flushed out periodically.

Scott Warrington

 

[rotorob]

I've been entrusted to clean carpets for a major asphalt company for nearly thirty years. I normally clean only twice per year. They have a janitorial firm do their weekly maintenance, but don't allow them to do anything other than vacuum. It is a grey-colored plush that responds very well to the following procedure. Even with the jani-firms so-so vacuum, I pre-treat the asphalt/grease that is tracked in from the truck service department downstairs, with a citrus-based solvent, (only on the visible marks), then use a DILUTED application of the world famous Roto-Static Carpet Cleaner in conjunction with our bonnet/pad cleaning machine to attain superior results every time. Raking is required each cleaning.
Not a hint of yellowing, and the carpet has only been rinsed maybe three times at most. The rinsing really dosn't improve the overall appearance.
Roto-Static, the original encapsulation product. For what it's worth. I get a lot of chuckles out of a lot of you guys grasping at straws.