I have a lobby carpet that just doesn't respond well to cleaning. HWE it and it wicks horribly and looks worse then when I started.. Encap it and it improves slightly, but nothing significant. I usually use Releasit DS2. Does anybody know if Punch of Hydrox might give any better results? I clean it about every 6 weeks. All it has is lots of heavy foot traffic - no grease/food.
Encapping a dingy lobby carpet
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Cleanworks
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Make sure your vacuum cleaner is up to the job. I find usually find heavier is better like a kirby or royal. A little peroxide in your prespray will help to brighten it.
encapman
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Start off by pre-vacuuming the carpet well. Make plenty of slow north-south east-west vacuum passes.
Then clean with a strong mix of Encap-HydrOx. Here's a cleaning process that works well on problematic CGD carpet:
1. Very quickly run over the carpet with your Cimex, rotary or orbital machine - dispensing the solution as you rapidly cut across the carpet.
2. Then go back and slowly scrub over the carpet again, beginning from where you started your first pass. Cover the entire carpet making a couple of slow dry passes. You can feather just a slight bit more solution as you make the slow scrubbing passes. But be very careful that you don't over-wet the carpet (more is NOT better).
3. Finish up by post-bonneting the carpet with a damp bonnet.
4. Put fans on the carpet to accelerate drying.
That approach will usually nail even the worst offending CGD carpet.
Then clean with a strong mix of Encap-HydrOx. Here's a cleaning process that works well on problematic CGD carpet:
1. Very quickly run over the carpet with your Cimex, rotary or orbital machine - dispensing the solution as you rapidly cut across the carpet.
2. Then go back and slowly scrub over the carpet again, beginning from where you started your first pass. Cover the entire carpet making a couple of slow dry passes. You can feather just a slight bit more solution as you make the slow scrubbing passes. But be very careful that you don't over-wet the carpet (more is NOT better).
3. Finish up by post-bonneting the carpet with a damp bonnet.
4. Put fans on the carpet to accelerate drying.
That approach will usually nail even the worst offending CGD carpet.
Mikey P
Administrator
What machine do you use to encap?
Mikey P
Administrator
Which OP?
