Remove Ink Stains from Carpet

Like all other stains, you must hurry to make your best attempts to remove the ink stain immediately, before the stain sets into your carpet. Ink stains may be either water based or permanent. Permanent ink stains may be a bit difficult to remove from carpet. Water based ink stains are fairly easy to remove though. Here’s how to completely remove either stain…

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Remove Water Based Ink Stains

If you are faced with a water based ink stain first blot whatever ink residue you can absorb. Do not scrub the carpet. You will only dig the ink stain deeper into the carpet fibers. Next simply mix a teaspoon of dish washing detergent with a cup of water. Lightly douse the ink stain. Using a white terry cloth to lightly blot the ink stain from your carpet. It is important not to use a scrub brush. A scrub brush will only distort the carpet fibers and dig the ink stain deeper into the carpet filaments, making removal close to impossible.

Remove Permanent Ink Stains

Please note that permanent ink stains can be very difficult to remove from your carpet using domestic cleaning products. If you find that the ink stain is permanent and does not respond to water based cleaning methods, you next option is to use rubbing alcohol on your carpet. Be sure to first test the rubbing alcohol on an inconspicuous area prior to using it on your carpet. Add the rubbing alcohol to a white terry cloth and slowly blot the ink stain and check for ink transfer. If you see an ink transfer, continue to blot your carpet until the ink stain is completely gone or there is no more ink transfer.

At the point where there is no ink transfer onto the terry cloth, nail polish remover works wonderfully. First, completely rinse your carpet with water and blot dry. Apply a small amount of nail polish remover onto your terry cloth and, just like the rubbing alcohol, blot the ink stain until there is no more ink transfer.

Bleach - When All Else Fails…

If all else fails, mild bleaching techniques are very successful to remove ink stains from carpet. DO NOT use Clorox bleach on your carpet. Nylon and wool carpet will completely dissolve in sodium hydrochloride (Clorox) and olefin carpet may be stripped of its color. I’m talking about 3% peroxide. We all have it in our bathroom cabinet. Peroxide is an oxidizer. It will not remove the ink stain from your carpet but it will make it unseen to the eye. Pour a conservative amount of peroxide onto the ink stain, place a damp white terry cloth over the carpet and wait a full 24 hours. This last ink stain home remedy should do the trick over 90% of the time.

As a professional new york carpet cleaning technician., I used this method of ink stain removal for the first five years of my career and it works great. If for any reason you are unable to remove the ink stain from your carpet using these methods hire a professional nyc carpet cleaning company to remove it for you. He or she will use slightly more aggressive cleaning techniques to remove the ink stain.

Have you ever had a spot on your carpet, clean it or have it professionally cleaned, only to have in reappear in a few days. This can be extremely frustrating. This short article will explain the “why” behind this problem and hopefully a clear approach to prevention. As a professional carpet cleaning specialist, I commonly find this challenge among Berber olefin, Berber nylon and all other olefin carpets.

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Berber, although beautiful and a very strong style of carpet, can be difficult to clean at times. Its tight, often matted fibers sometimes only allow a cleaning technician to push a spot deeper into the carpet. It disappears. When it drys, due to evaporation, the spot finds the driest spot on the carpet fiber - the surface. To prevent this from happening your cleaning technician must pre-vacuum thoroughly, and go through extensive extraction methods to win against the spot. At the end of the job, be sure that your technician speed dries your carpet so any residue (although there shouldn’t be any) doesn’t reach the visible surface.

Olefin loves oil. The oil in your skin, hair, pet hair, and shoes from outside attach to your olefin carpets and will pick up any and all dirt it comes across. Be sure to tell you carpet cleaning technician that you have an olefin carpet. Cleaning solvents, citrus, and higher PH cleaning chemicals may be needed for success. Again, thorough pre-vacuuming and speed drying should be a carpet cleaning must.
So now you know why your carpets resoil and how to prevent future resoiling. Be vocal with your carpet cleaning technician. Let him or her know that you are an educated consumer and demand outstanding quality of service. And if you live in the NYC metropolitan area, give Steam Pro Carpet Cleaning NY an opportunity to earn your trust.

This scenario is quite uncommon but is a very popular questions amongst our clients so I’d like to address it very quickly. Firstly and most importantly, your carpets will return to their original form once they are completely dry.

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Now for the reason. The reason for ripples in a carpet is not from an improper carpet cleaning. It’s in an improper installation of the carpet. Everyone is familiar with the standard carpet installer’s kick method but almost none of my clients that I have surveyed have every heard of a power stretcher. Unless your carpet was installed using a power stretcher, your carpet was improperly installed. You will not get as long of a carpet life as you would have had.

So next time you find that perfect carpet to put in your home, make sure you tell the installers to use a power stretcher. If not, tell them to be on their way until they bring one back to your home. If you are unfamiliar with what a power stretcher looks like, here is a picture of one. Power Strecher. Be adamant to carpet installers that try to tell you that a kicker will give you the same results as a power stretcher.

Grease can not be removed with traditional cleaning methods. Soap and water will not remove grease (oil and water to not mix). To properly remove the grease from the carpet, first absorb what grease you can with a white terry cloth. Next pour a liberal amount of either baking soda or corn starch onto the area. Lightly aggitate the baking soda or corn starch into the carpet and let sit for 24 hours. Vacuum and repeat.

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If there is a small amount of residue left after the intitial carpet cleaning you may try a wet cleaning method. Mix salt, borax, and vinegar in equal parts. Apply the paste and lightly aggitate. Absorb the moisture with a white terry cloth.

In removing candle wax from your carpet, there is one way that completely removes any trace of  wax ever being on the carpet. The other way destroys the carpet or permanently dyes the carpet. This article will explain what to do to avoid making any mistakes and to end up like our first scenario.

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First using a white terry cloth, fold it over twice and place it over the candle wax. Place a hot iron over the area and wait 20-30 seconds. Most residential carpets are made of either nylon or olefin. Olefin has a very low heat resistance, so be careful not to burn the fibers. Regardless of the fiber type discipline yourself to never use an iron over the waxed area for more than 30 seconds. Scrape as much of the candle wax from the carpet with a metal spoon and repeat. You must let the spot cool for 2 minutes in between each hot iron process. Touch the spot prior to using this process to be sure that the carpet has cooled back to room temperature.

The big mistake made when using this method of removing candle wax is a lack of patience. Many people decide to let the hot iron sit too long. The color from the candle wax is set by the heat (heat sets in dyes) and turns a small challenge into a big problem. After the candle wax color sets into the carpet, it can only be treated with color safe bleaches for safe removal. If the carpet is olefin, letting the hot iron sit too long burns the carpet fibers and creates permanent, irreversible damage. Do not make these mistake. Be patient.

Blood removal can be tough to remove if it was previously incorrectly cleaned. Do not rub the blood deeper into the carpet. This will definitely make the cleaning process much more difficult, even for a professional carpet cleaner.

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Before you decide to take out that scrub brush, take out a little bit of salt and pour it onto the blood. The salt will absorb most of the blood.

Next pour a small amount of water onto the blood and blot (do not scrub) the spot as close to dry as possible.

Lastly, lightly pour 3% peroxide (the is the domestic dilution ratio 1:33 or 3%) onto the blood spot. Blot and repeat until the blood is completely removed from the carpet.

If you need any further assistance in cleaning the blood or any other type of spot from your carpets or upholstery never hesitate to call us, free of charge. 718 606 0549.

No matter how long the gum has been there, here is a really easy, quick way to remove it. The answer the citrus. I would recommend purchasing a citus solvent such as Citrus Solv. That’s what we use and it works great.
First take some ice and place it on the gum. This will stiffen the gum and make it a lot easier to remove.
Next apply the citrus solvent onto the gum and using a spoon or the blunt side of a knife, scrape the gum.
Blot the excess citrus solvent using a white cloth or paper towel.
Repeat until it’s gone. It shouldn’t take long. Good Luck!

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Vacuum, Vacuum and Vacuum. The answer to this question may seem so obvious but so many people just don’t do it often enough. Now I do understand that to vacuum to most carpet manufacturer standards may be a bit excessive. But a daily vacuuming, followed by at least a weekly thorough, slow vacuuming will add many years of beauty to your carpets. The reason is simple. Dirt is an abbrasiveand will tear at your carpet’s microscopic filaments, leaving them looking distorted and just plain ugly. Understand that for all of those people that have carpets that haven’t be vacuumed in weeks, months, or even years; every step they take on their carpets drives those razor shape blades of dirt deeper and deeper into the carpet fibers.

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We at Steam Pro always suggest to vacuum your carpets daily, professionally clean them ever 6-12 months, and Scotchgard every 12-18 months. This will keep your carpets looking phenominal in the years ahead.

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