gimmeagig
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Hi guys,
I made my own blacklight using a 100W fluorescent bulb and a shop light.Looks pretty professional and it works great.But I could use some help in analyzing what it shows.
I used it to get a cleaning job last week.The owner's mom died and he's trying to sell the house.He cleaned the carpet himself with a Bissell.It's beige nylon and looked clean but the owner told me potential buyers complained about pet odor.I couldn't really smell it because he had these plugin deodorizers everywhere in the house.
The light showed a whole bunch of stains. Some of them brighter than others.A piece of furniture had left a long brown stain and around that there was a brilliant white area. I'm guessing that he tried to remove the stain and that there was some kind of residue from that in the carpet.Is that a possibility?
There were areas along the base boards that clearly showed cat urine.
Various spots of the same color throughout the center of the rooms as well. Dog pee maybe?
And there were several spots that looked green. Very different from the rest of the the stains.What could those be?
Aside from the brown stain none of them were visible to the eye without the black light.
So I told the owner that I could do a better job that he with the Bissel but I could not guarantee that I'd be able to solve his problem. He decided to let me give it a shot and I really wanted to do a good job.
So I pre vacuumed,pre sprayed and cleaned the carpets using Prochem Floral Odor Neutralizer, Oxy Plus and All Fiber Deep Clean.I reduced the pressure to 300 psi and tried not to get into the pad too much.
Following that I injected Urine Off enzyme treatment into the pad in the worst places then stuck multiple driers on the carpet right away.After that I misted a bit of the Prochem Odor neutralizer onto the carpets.
So after that I rechecked with my black light hoping the spots would be gone or at least diminished.But they were all still there pretty much like before. How frustrating!
So my question is:Is this normal? Do the spots remain once the carpet has been exposed to urine or was there anything else that I should have done to get rid of the spots and solve the problem?
I had unplugged the air fresheners before the job and when I left I could not smell pet odor, but my sense of smell is not that great. The customer lives out of town and he'll be checking it out tomorrow.I hope he'll be happy. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.Of course now he's used to the scent of the plugin deodorizers which he wanted me to take out.
I made my own blacklight using a 100W fluorescent bulb and a shop light.Looks pretty professional and it works great.But I could use some help in analyzing what it shows.
I used it to get a cleaning job last week.The owner's mom died and he's trying to sell the house.He cleaned the carpet himself with a Bissell.It's beige nylon and looked clean but the owner told me potential buyers complained about pet odor.I couldn't really smell it because he had these plugin deodorizers everywhere in the house.
The light showed a whole bunch of stains. Some of them brighter than others.A piece of furniture had left a long brown stain and around that there was a brilliant white area. I'm guessing that he tried to remove the stain and that there was some kind of residue from that in the carpet.Is that a possibility?
There were areas along the base boards that clearly showed cat urine.
Various spots of the same color throughout the center of the rooms as well. Dog pee maybe?
And there were several spots that looked green. Very different from the rest of the the stains.What could those be?
Aside from the brown stain none of them were visible to the eye without the black light.
So I told the owner that I could do a better job that he with the Bissel but I could not guarantee that I'd be able to solve his problem. He decided to let me give it a shot and I really wanted to do a good job.
So I pre vacuumed,pre sprayed and cleaned the carpets using Prochem Floral Odor Neutralizer, Oxy Plus and All Fiber Deep Clean.I reduced the pressure to 300 psi and tried not to get into the pad too much.
Following that I injected Urine Off enzyme treatment into the pad in the worst places then stuck multiple driers on the carpet right away.After that I misted a bit of the Prochem Odor neutralizer onto the carpets.
So after that I rechecked with my black light hoping the spots would be gone or at least diminished.But they were all still there pretty much like before. How frustrating!
So my question is:Is this normal? Do the spots remain once the carpet has been exposed to urine or was there anything else that I should have done to get rid of the spots and solve the problem?
I had unplugged the air fresheners before the job and when I left I could not smell pet odor, but my sense of smell is not that great. The customer lives out of town and he'll be checking it out tomorrow.I hope he'll be happy. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.Of course now he's used to the scent of the plugin deodorizers which he wanted me to take out.
