Good job cleaning an Oriental Rug bleeder (Video)

[Rob Allen]

I actually like this video and the song. He did a good job handling a bleeder too. I wonder if he used a dye blocker on it? It would seem that he didn't seeing all the color running out. I could be wrong so maybe Scott or Lisa could chime in. I have never yet had a rug bleed this much when I used a dye block. Has anyone else?

[Scott W]

I have met the gentlemen in the video several years ago. He is a topnotch cleaner.

I do not know specifically if he used Dye Loc or or method to prevent the effects of bleeding. I wish they had given mor details. In some cases the rug is wet out and as long as the water stays flowing the dyes will not settle back onto fibers.

Sometimes a rug treated with Dye Loc will still bleed considerably. Rather than stabilizing the dyes, Dte-Loc works by preventing dyes from attaching to toher fibers. Areas treated with Dye-Loc actually repel dye stuff. The dyes may come loos back they have nowhere to go. They stay in the water until the water is extracted.

Although Dye-Loc is an acid, the real key to how it works is Hyperbranched polyehtylene derivatives and some other secret technologies.

[Jason Whaley]

Not in a rug but the church I did today when I dumped my tank looked like the Red Sea!

[LisaWagner]

This is great - I've done some training with the Pettyjohns awhile ago, they joined my Rug Warrior program. Great people.

So... dye stabilizers can keep the dye/fiber bond a bit stronger, but most importantly it fills the dye sites of the fibers to PROTECT them from accepting dye that does bleed out and move. So if you keep the water moving and flushing, you can keep it from redepositing.

This piece had urine damage - which creates even more of a bleeder. So they would be using a solution on the rug, and in the machine to keep that migration from redepositing. When you flood rugs, this is the process on bleeders.

Good video ... though... I don't know if I'd show the consumers a rug bleeding - even though it turns out okay. That's like a surgeon showing the cutting and blood, instead of the end result only. Cleaners are interested in the process guts... but not consumers so much, they just want to trust that their rug will be okay. If I were a consumer, I'd be nervous to release my rug if I "knew" it was going to bleed that much.

I also am not big at all at showing the big equipment in advertising venues - before and after photos are much more powerful - the WHAT you do, instead of the how.

But again, cleaner dig the HOW - so they tend to all copy each other showing all of this equipment details... that most consumers could really care less about. Same with truckmount cleaning - the homeowners what to see what you can do, and won't be impressed knowing what kind of truckmount you use. It boggles my mind that so many companies showcase their "tools" in their ads.

Anyway, a tangent... the Pettyjohns are COOL!

Lisa

[Richard Baldwin]

I have to agree as well, red orientals are going to make red water no matter what, even with just a top cleaning. The important part is if you are making the colors spread, migrate or fade. Watching the video I took a close look at the white areas of the oriental and they still looked white after, not pink. They may have had more issues if the oriental had pure white fringes.