Urine Stain Still Fluorescing

[Mark Imbesi]

Why?

 

[Greenie]

Dunno...but they always will.

FOrsythe?

 

[Mikey P]

Permanent dye damage.




All you need to know.




But count on Forsythe to give you a 1400 word answer.

 

[Ron Lippold]

there is a product out there that you spray on the carpet and no more light

 

[boazcan]

Made by CTI...........Black Out - I think its called

 

[Mark Imbesi]

Unseen dye damage? The stain is gone to the eye.

 

[Ron Lippold]

yes

 

[Brian R]

Yes black out. Great for murder scenes....I've said too much.

 

[hogjowl]

I agree, but if you can get danny to stop, we'll forgive you.

 

[Brian R]

Will you send me five dollars if I do?

 

[RLitwin]

CTI's product will be until that next cleaning. It will rinse out.

 

[renegade_cowboy]

Mineral content of the urine, good luck trying to remove it.

 

[Larry Cobb]

Marc;

It is possible to remove the fluorescence with the stain.

This photo shows the removal from an oxidizer with a Ultraviolet light:
http://www.cobbcarpet.com/uvstain.html

Larry

 

[J Scott W]

The portion of the stain that flouresces is the salts. It requires very little salt to produce the flourescence. There are different compnents of the urine that cause the discoloration.

During cleaning, the the salts get disolved in the water and fairly evenly distrubuted wherever the water goes.

Now you extract. Perhaps, you remove 70% or even 80% of the water. Along with 20 or 30% of the water, you also left 20 to 30% of the salt behind.

Just as any liquid stain, during drying, some wicking is occurring. The small amount of salt left behind is now on the surface where the glow can be seen easily.

You remove the components of the stain that cause the discoloration, but often leave some of what causes the flourescence behind.

Scott Warrington