Red Clay removal

americlean

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We have that wonderful "Red Virginia Clay" here and it can be a pain to get out of carpets.

I did a job yesterday with a large stain where the dog laid all the time on the olefin carpet. It came up 75% but I could not get all the orange out. I asume it was the combination of the clay with the oils in the dogs coat that set the stain.

Any thoughts on how to combat this?

Thanks Guys...
 

Larry Cobb

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John;

Red clay can be difficult.

You need a good suspending builder. I would use a powder with a good polyphosphate builder.

Larry Cobb
 

Greg Loe

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olefin and oil? White carpet? now yellow carpet. You might can get it better using different products but it probably will always have a yellow tint.
 

hogjowl

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I agree with Larry. You need a crystalviolate suspension builder with a polyphospate blocking agent.

Hope this helps as much as Larrys did.
 

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When I lived in South Carolina they had locals who would eat that red clay.

But thats just another reason why they didn't evolve from chucking spears.
 

Rex Tyus

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LMAO! @ the Admiral. I was thinking the same thing.

Larry this is Mikey's Board. If you have a solution in stock you can say so. LOL.

I have never cleaned in Virginia. But, AL, GA, and FL all have red clay. Any good hot(as in ph) prespray followed with an acid rinse has always served me well.
 

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I have this same problem in my own home in SC. Lots of landscaping and lots of dirty clay tracked in OVER and OVER. I prespray with Grand Slam, then use 500psi with a very slow wet stroke and 3 dry passes and it's gone.
 

Noidios

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ODIN said:
In SC do they also call it Virgina red clay



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It wasn't that funny of a joke the first time Odin, but if you must know, I had my entire yard trucked in from VA, so even if I am in SC, I am actually tracking in VA red clay.
 

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Grits and boiled peanuts are nasty!!! I'm probably one of the few that live in the south and wont touch the mess.
 
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To follow conventional wisdom that rust remover wouldn't actually remove the clay pigments....it would just make them "invisible" or transparent.

:-)
Lee

PS Let me know how this experiment works out.





PPS Don't do it.
 

Dolly Llama

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welp, I ain't the smartest CCer on this thread...

and our clay up here is just plain ole brown clay

BUT..clay is dirt ain't it?

no one mentioned a good thorough vaccing first before you emulsify the clay and make a nice soupy mud slurry?????

..L.T.A.
 

hogjowl

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Only on the bulletin board.

Ours down here cleans out pretty well with normal cleaning agents.

The only "trick" is you need to lower your water temperature.
 

J Scott W

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Pre-vacuum is important on clay.

Use a prespray with ingredients designed to work on very small particles. These can be removed by lubrication and suspension and/or raw materials that counteract the electric forces at work between small particles and the carpet fibers.

For a specific prespray - Traffic Slam. For spots Filter Out. If color still remains, you can try Jeff's idea of rust remover.

Scott Warrington
 

Jack May

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A couple of things, olefin LOVES oil and as mentioned above can leave a yellowish mark.

Olefin is derived from the petroleum industry and so oil BONDS to it like the baby poo to the blanket.

A good test on a small area with a VDS wiped over it will soon let you know if it can be improved. Or even a good degreaser mixed into a hot solution and scrubbed well and rinsed...? Test first so that you're not wasting your time.

As to the red clay, I know some of the guys in Aussie where they have red dirt are getting great results using ... wait for it... Releasit DS as a prespray in a HWE situation.

I'd go back and do a small test with Releasit DS at normal or slightly higher dilution ratio and scrub well then flush well at high flow but low pressure and see how it goes.

John
 

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