If your carpet is moldy use a mold cleaning product first to get rid of the spores sticking to the carpet fibers.
What does bleach cleanable carpet mean.
Should there be any light spillages these carpets are cleanable with a light bleach solution.
If there are any caked substances sticking to the carpet use a knife to loosen them up to clean afterward.
Stain resistant carpets have stain resistant properties making them ideal for the busy domestic home.
When you see a carpet that is described as stainfree bleach cleanable etc.
Unlike wool carpets which have been pre dyed when a liquid spillage is dropped onto the pile the wool absorbs the liquid meaning the stain is harder to.
Well the fibres won t react to bleach in the same way wool or another natural fibre will.
Step 1 prepare the carpet.
Much better value than hiring a carpet cleaner.
When using household bleach to clean your carpet you should use a mixture of 50 bleach and 50 tap water you can watch their video to see this process in action red wine coffee bright orange baby food and mud are all tested on a light coloured bleach cleanable carpet and after using a carpet cleaning product on the stains all.
These are very hard wearing stain resistant can be scrubbed clean and come in many colours.
There are even images on sample books and in magazine advertising showing pictures of children on carpets together with an image of a bottle of bleach.
Understand that bleach does not easily remove molds from carpet.
I think you mean a 100 polypropylene carpet ie one that has no wool in it.
If you walk into any carpet retailer up and down the land you will find posters stickers and labels proclaiming that certain stain proof carpets are bleach cleanable.
Usually manufactured from a specially developed high quality polypropylene fibre these carpets help to repel any spills as the liquid sits on top of the fibres giving you time to clean it up.
If any of the liquid or mud does get into the carpet fibres you can use bleach to clean it up using a mixture that is 50 bleach and 50 water.
This means it is made from 100 polypropylene.
Dilute bleach with water and try it on a small patch first eg under the sofa.
Polypropylene is a man made fibre which is extruded from a liquid.
The downside is that they are rougher underfoot as the greater the wool content the softer a carpet feels.
If you have babies small children or like me a dog that likes to rub his face in the pile then maybe leaving bleach on the carpet isn t the best idea.
