Stains from A/C

**anytimefloor** · 09-20-2009, 11:16 PM

A friend of mine called and said her A/C stopped up and water drained onto her carpet and left some brown stains on it. Should this come up with a general cleaning with my pre-spray or do I need something else to put on the stain?

**danny4406** · 09-20-2009, 11:35 PM

Was it a lot of water or a little bit. If just a little bit I would clean as normal and spray a acid rinse. If it was a lot or still wet I would remove the pad and spray with micro ban. Then dry the floor and rug with a blower. Adding water to any kind of flood situation is only going to make it worse.

**able 1** · 09-20-2009, 11:40 PM

Rust remover? Or it will come out with the cleaning IMO...

**Kenny Wright** · 09-21-2009, 12:16 AM

If it's water stains, the regular cleaning should take care of it. If it's rust, T-rust from Bridgepoint will get it out. I use it quite often to get rust out of carpet that sits under chillers.

**Frank DiGi** · 09-21-2009, 12:51 AM

If its just happen if should come right out . Then what was said dry with a fan and Microban .

**mad57** · 09-21-2009, 02:03 AM

regular clean and treat with brown out! good as new.

**Scott W** · 09-21-2009, 11:39 AM

It is likely that this will come out with regular cleaning if it is recent.

It is good to remember that water by itself does not make stains, otherwise we would leave a stained carpet everytime we cleaned.

Rarely, usually older carpets, a carpet may have a jute backing that results in cellulosic browning. This can be corrected with a browning remover. More likely, the water disolved some soil as it travel through or under the carpet. That soil is left on the tips of the tufts as the water dries. So it could depend on what soil was disolved in the water as to the best process to remove it.

**tony123** · 09-21-2009, 03:23 PM

rust remover if it looks like rusty water

**Blind Dr** · 09-21-2009, 08:27 PM

I had one on a eating establishment like this. they waited for 3 weeks to call me. The a/c in the overhead broke and flooded out the ceiling tiles and carpet. What a mess. When i was notified of the event, it was dry and the area had a rust colored stain.l. I used my regular prespray first and it took some of it away. I moved on to a more aggressive prespray and followed up with fels. It came clean the second time. I checked back 4 days later and it did not wick back. The fels is great stuff.