Carpet and Floor Cleaning Industry Chat Forum : Blotchy Oriental https://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:43:51 +0000 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:38:43 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.06 360 https://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=5677 <![CDATA[Carpet and Floor Cleaning Industry Chat Forum]]> https://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/ <![CDATA[Blotchy Oriental : Move the rug to another room or...]]> https://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5677&PID=152988&title=blotchy-oriental#152988 Author: nightrider
Subject: 5677
Posted: 23/February/2009 at 10:38pm

Move the rug to another room or outside, see what gives. Close all the lights and look at the rug with a Ultra Violet light . Vacuum with a low pile brush .
 
I had a simular problem with a Turkish rug 2 years ago.............it just went away after vacuumming 20 times, I did clean it again with a neutral cleaner
 
                                                     Nightrider
]]> Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:38:43 +0000 https://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5677&PID=152988&title=blotchy-oriental#152988 <![CDATA[Blotchy Oriental : Hi, I&#039;m new here and I just...]]> https://www.kleenkuip.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5677&PID=152985&title=blotchy-oriental#152985 Author: ScottsDryFoam
Subject: 5677
Posted: 23/February/2009 at 9:37pm

Hi, I'm new here and I just wanted to find out if anyone else had ever had this problem.  I've been cleaning carpets since 1997 and never run into this one before!
 
I cleaned a 12 yr. old Kazakhstan rug the other day and the woman complained the next day that it looked blotchy.  She's a regular and I've cleaned that same rug 4 or 5 times with no problems.  I thought maybe it had a brownout problem but when I went back that wasn't it.  It was the grain of the rug.  It needed brushed down the right way and in some spots it therefore looked blotchy.  But here's the wierd thing: I had brushed it all one way and when I tried to do so again, it only got rid of the blotches on one side.  They then appeared if you looked at the same spot from the opposite side of the carpet. 
 
So we could get it looking really good if you stood on one side of the room but it looked terrible if you stood on the other side of it.  Fix a blotch to go away and then it appeared from the opposite direction.  Wierder still, stand in front, rather to either side, and some of the blotches appeared as way too bright spots instead!
 
There seemed to be no way to groom the carpet to make it look normal again from any angle.  But as I said, I'd cleaned this carpet before and nothing like this ever happened.  I also cleaned 6 other Orientals in their house that day and all of them were just fine.
 
Anyone else ever have this happen to an Oriental rug?
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