DECEMBER

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THEY SAY:
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More and more
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theatre saves many
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Ready-Power air conditioning equipment
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users will be furnished on request.
THE
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11231 FREUD AVI. . DETROIT M, MICH.
Manufacturers of Gat and DIetel Engine Driven
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FLOOR CARE
MANUAL
Continued from page 19
carpeting, a lot of it can be removed by
going over the carpet with a clean cotton
mop, dipped in clear water and well wrung
out each time.
Earlier in this article we promised to tell
more about the cleaning agents best
adapted for on location cleaning. Such a
cleaner must have these essentials: It must
have good solvent and emulsifying power,
it must not create and leave lime soap in
the carpet (resulting in a lasting, disagreeable
odor
I
it must contain a chemical
(usually copper sulphate) to prevent .mildew.
Cocoanut oil soap has long been the
principal ingredient of rug shampoos. It
makes the desired heavy, stable lather, is a
good detergent and works well in hard or
soft water. Other solvents are usually
added to dissolve those deposits in the carpet
which soap does not affect. Ether is
sometimes added to hasten the drying. Anti"
fermentatives may also be added to prevent
residual odors. There are times when
cleaned carpeting gives off an objectionable
odor for weeks, especially on damp days
or when the ventilation is poor. Hotel corridors,
for instance, have been known to
smell very bad to a newly arrived guest,
though the hotel people themselves are
so used to it they do not notice it. In such
cases, cheap shampoos, homemade cleaners
or just plain soap may clean the carpet but
offend your customers. Nothing could be
worse than a bad odor in a theatre.
SYNTHETIC CLEANERS HAVE VALUE
In the last year or so synthetic rug
cleaners have appeared on the market.
They have these very desirable virtues:
they are active cleaners in any kind of
water; they leave no residue of their own,
and they neither produce nor promote a
disagreeable odor. To offset these virtues,
however, most of these synthetic cleaners,
while sudsing profusely, do not provide a
rich, stable lather and, therefore, do not
hold the dirt in suspension long enough to
be satisfactorily picked up with a vacuum
cleaner. Often they are "wetting agents,"
which means they are more penetrating
than soap and more likely to soak the carpeting
through to the backing.
The York Research Corp., consultants
for the American Hotel Ass'n, and which
conducts tests and research on items used
by hotels, restaurants and now hospitals,
is very much in favor of using the synthetic
cleaners, but the National Institute
of Rug Cleaning reports it is still undecided
and are not yet discarding the use of
cocoanut oil soap.
There is now on the market a new type
of rug cleaner in the form of ground fibers li^
moistened with solvent which are rubbed
into the carpeting and then vacuumed up.
Where the carpeting is not too dirty, this
type of cleaner seems to serve fairly well,
but professional rug cleaners oppose it.
In the above we have confined our subject
to the machine cleaning of carpeting,
but if you do not have the equipment, the
fiber type cleaner may be used or a fairly
good job can be done by hand scrubbing,
either squeegeeing off the dirty solution
as fast as possible or wiping the solution
up with absorbent rags. After the carpet
has been cleaned in this manner, go over
it again with a clean, cotton mop well
wrung out in clear water as suggested above.
As you proceed, rinse out the mop frequently,
thereby picking up some of the
dirt stirred up by the scrubbing.
USE
HAND BRUSH ON STAIRS
The shampooing of the stair carpeting
must be accomplished with a hand brush,
followed either with the vacuum cleaner or
dry rags to pick up the dirty lather. If you
have much stair carpeting to clean, however,
you should have an upholstery
cleaner which is also adapted for stairs. It
makes the job easier and the results more
satisfactory.
The removal of stains from carpeting,
though a part of cleaning, involves too many
kinds of stains and too many methods for
removing them to be included in this
article. Just a word of caution, however:
some stains such as those caused by animal
deposits, are often intensified after being
shampooed. The deposit actually causes a
reaction in the dye of the carpeting and the
chemicals in the cleaning solution reactivate
it. There is no remedy except to
bleach the spot and re-stain it with special
dyes designed for the purpose.
We repeat, your theatre carpeting should
be cleaned regularly, not only to improve
the appearance but to remove decaying
matter, accumulations that stiffen the pile
and cause it to break under usage. Clean
carpeting looks better and, what is even i|
more important, it lasts longer.
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