Anyone seen anything like this and tried to clean it? Whatever the black stuff is scrapes off with just my finger, so I know it can be cleaned. I didn’t have my truck with chemicals with me to go look at it, so I couldn’t test to see what SH or degreaser does to it. It looks organic, but almost feels rubbery. I’m doing a bunch of other cleaning, so I was fine with guessing at the cost to add this. Might be a pain, might clean up easy. I’m thinking test spot of both SH and degreaser, then maybe turbo at an angle from a decent distance away???
that looks bad. I do a lot of outdoor carpets/astroturf people put on concrete. Once they get old and worn they just fray and it goes all over. They make an astroturf rake, a pet rake for carpet, and they make a broom rake for outdoor carpet that looks like a bent over broom I use the broom rake because sometimes things just stick. I normally use a wide angle on my M5 and spray at like a 30-40 degree angle and push water in one direction. I use a turbo a lot more than some on here, but I don’t think I would reach for that. If the “carpet” puckers, you could blow it out. I hope you bid it high, it takes awhile to push junk out because the fringe likes to hold it. I don’t use SH on most outdoor carpets, some of the new ones have antimicrobial agents in them. That is so bad who knows.
Thank you for that. I didn’t bid this part high, I have him the “I have no idea" price and expectation on it. I’m there for cleaning other stuff I know, this was a please see what can be done add on.
It looks nasty, but that black crap scrapes off with just my fingers. I figured worst case I take a deck brush to it and scrub it off. It’s only about a 7x20 area with open yard around it.
So you’re thinking SH shouldn’t be used? Degreaser is the better choice to loosen it up?
I don’t know what you should use on that to be honest, it looks really bad. I would blast off some of that crud and see how the carpet holds up, go fan then stream. If it takes a stream it will likely hold the whole way through. You could use SH on it, it is bad. Just mentioned the other thing so people were aware that some of the newer outdoor carpets had stuff in it before the bleached it off. I don’t think you would need a degreaser, soap and water, maybe some SH. But I’m not there. SH would probably help a little, but the rakes (even the backside of a squeegee) might help move stuff along. Heck, you might speed things up by using a flat bottom shovel it before getting it wet.
I’ll take a shovel, deck brush and a couple different chemicals. I’ll report back when it’s done.
1 Like
Hw mix pretreat, then just a turbo nozzle at an good angle to lift and push it all out into the yard. Some dirty spots were left just from muddy water, so I lightly rained a 1% post treat on it and it came out great
1 Like
Wow! Impressive.
Looks great! Didn’t think it would look that good, way to go.
I’m not gonna lie, I didn’t think it would come out that good. The turbo even helped stand up the grain that was all matted down.
1 Like
This was a really cool property. Built in 1940 and had this old koi pond that had been neglected for many years. Got the outside cleaned up. Next step is getting the inside cleaned and getting it functional again
5 Likes
Great work!
Nice work. Glad it went smoothly for you. I just had one last week I told them no to their carpet. When that stuff lets loose, it goes all over. Worse than cleaning up flaking paint in my opinion.
Amazing transformation - nice work
