Audios S6
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- Oct 12, 2011
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The topic has come up a few times recently so i thought I would make a short how to and video.
What you'll need:
Ice scraper or similar scraping device
Stiff carpet brush
Vacuum
Smaller stiff brush (optional but helpful)
Extractor mine is a bissel autocare pro heat (required for this method, but a vacuum may work)
Water
Citric acid based carpet cleaner (fiber rinse, optional)
Start with typical carpet cleaning:
1. Dry brush
2. Vacuum
Next is bulk salt removal:
1. Use ice scraper to scrape bulk salt
2. Use stiff brush to further remove bulk salt.
3. Vacuum
Here's the brush I like to use, it's small and has a scraper. Also shows before condition.
Now for the actual salt removal:
1. Using extractor wand, spray a small area until some of the salt dissolves. Not all of it, just a small amount. Soaking the carpet will just spread it. Use either water or a citric acid based carpet cleaner. The one I use is a fiber rinse plus it has an encapsulation polymer so I can leave the carpet a little damp by design when I'm done.
2. Use your extractor to suck up the water, one pass to start.
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 until you've gotten all the salt visibly removed. After 3 repeats, do a couple extra passes with just suction to remove extra water.
4. Once you think the salt is gone, repeat steps 1 & 2 at least 3 more times. If it's bad, consider 5-6 more times.
5. Do a final extraction as you typically would: 1 heavy wet pass followed by 3 dry passes with whatever extraction fluid you normally use.
Condition after drying.
I'll upload a video shortly.
What you'll need:
Ice scraper or similar scraping device
Stiff carpet brush
Vacuum
Smaller stiff brush (optional but helpful)
Extractor mine is a bissel autocare pro heat (required for this method, but a vacuum may work)
Water
Citric acid based carpet cleaner (fiber rinse, optional)
Start with typical carpet cleaning:
1. Dry brush
2. Vacuum
Next is bulk salt removal:
1. Use ice scraper to scrape bulk salt
2. Use stiff brush to further remove bulk salt.
3. Vacuum
Here's the brush I like to use, it's small and has a scraper. Also shows before condition.
Now for the actual salt removal:
1. Using extractor wand, spray a small area until some of the salt dissolves. Not all of it, just a small amount. Soaking the carpet will just spread it. Use either water or a citric acid based carpet cleaner. The one I use is a fiber rinse plus it has an encapsulation polymer so I can leave the carpet a little damp by design when I'm done.
2. Use your extractor to suck up the water, one pass to start.
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 until you've gotten all the salt visibly removed. After 3 repeats, do a couple extra passes with just suction to remove extra water.
4. Once you think the salt is gone, repeat steps 1 & 2 at least 3 more times. If it's bad, consider 5-6 more times.
5. Do a final extraction as you typically would: 1 heavy wet pass followed by 3 dry passes with whatever extraction fluid you normally use.
Condition after drying.
I'll upload a video shortly.
