That's salty

[Goomer]

Other than the obvious....flush, flush, flush, and flush some more, any tricks to speed the dissolving of ice melt/salt residue more completely?

Would prespray have any benefit over the most effective universal solvent.....water?

The bright white stuff right inside the door is hard as a rock.

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[Mark Saiger]

Here is a product I get from a local distributor friend of mine.

He gave me a sample once and I really liked it. We get a lot of salt residue like this around here.

It takes more than one treatment when it is hard as a rock, but we have got that stuff out with this.

This works great and I know Jondon sells some of the Betco products.

 

[steve_64]

if its hard as a rock i prespray with banes brown out, soak it real good and scrub with my pile lifter. then i extract and follow up with more brown out.


just the way i do it and works good for me.

 

[KevinD]

Citric acid

 

[Goomer]

In a previous post John Olsen recommended a acidic urine treatment product, so these products seem to reinforce treating with an acidic solution.

I guess likes-dissolving-likes applies here.

Most info I see shows the ph of most ice melts to be either neutral or acid side.

 

[Able 1]

Keeping it wet is a big thing.. Really doesn't matter what you use. If you are doing a commercial location spray it first and keep it wet, and it will rinse right out with your TM.

 

[Able 1]

 

[Foothills Phil]

I use vinegar cheap smells bad but it works. I assume any highly acidic cleaner should help

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[C&S]

Prespray heavy with fab set dwell extract. Comes right out. Alkaline presprays will only make it harder to remove.

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[GCCLee]

Use your Acid Rinse as a pre spray, Rinse w Acid Rinse : )

Clean the bad traffic lanes, rinse again.

Easy peasy!

Bill or someone sent an SFS email out not long ago about this.


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[ruff]

In a previous post John Olsen recommended a acidic urine treatment product, so these products seem to reinforce treating with an acidic solution.

I guess likes-dissolving-likes applies here.

Most info I see shows the ph of most ice melts to be either neutral or acid side.

Actually the opposite. The salt is alkaline, the acid will help dissolve the alkaline salt.

 

[John Olson]

Steam Way's 601 is the best I have seen for salt residue. CTI's UPT works really good too and it is OLSON not Olsen

 

[GCCLee]

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and it is OLSON not Olsen

Im sure its been much worse : )


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[J Scott W]

Brush and vacuum to remove as much as possible while dry. Leaves less to wick back later.

Prespray on the acid side. I suggest either TCU Neutralizer or Fab-Set.

Flush with acid rinse solution. Keeping things on the acid side keeps the salt in solution. More water dilutes the salt content of the water in the carpet.

Lots of vacuum passes. Salt will be dissolved and dispersed throughout the solution. The more water you remove by extraction, the more salt that comes with it. Whatever water is left to dry by evaporation leaves its salt content on the surface.