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I have a stool with red wine on it. I don’t want to use red dye remover on it. because of the heat and upholstery. The fabric is a light brown. It appears to be normal fabric. Can I still use the red dye and just let it sit for 15 minutes and then rinsing it out. I have done this to wool rugs on urine spots with ok results. The stool was $320 for each one. I definitely need to get it out with out hurting the fabric any. Any other suggestions?
Red dye remover does not require steam to activate. Steam is used as a catalyst (speeding up the chemical reaction) You are correct with your thoughts on applying the dye remover and then flushing. I’m not sure of the dwell time but I think you are correct on that as well. When you flush out the dye remover, make sure you wet and extract the entire upholstered surface to eliminate water rings.
If it is normal fabric you should be ok to use some heat. Never hurts to error on the side of caution though. Definitely want to rinse whole stool and make sure to dry it completely before you leave. We’ve had red wine on fabric before that disappeared right when we sprayed the red dye remover on it, and then it reappeared later. Crazy. Never could get it out.
I consider “normal” fabric any fabric that is nylon (or a nylon blend), olefin, microfiber, polyester…..think that about covers most. For me, abnormal is leather, and anything involving cotton in any way/shape/form. Just my opinion.
Thanks Dave for answering that question. I guess I should of been more specific. I guess I meant that we clean fabric like this all the time and it didn’t seem to be extremely different. The good news is that it work. I didn’t use any heat at all just mixed some red dye together and let sit for about 15 minutes and the cleaned the whole stool so not to leave any water marks. At first it it didn’t seem to get it all out so I told the customer that was going to give it one more chance, but I wanted it totally dry before I tried again. I went out there the next morning and it was all gone. So I return the stool to the owner.
What aI’ve found that works well on wine stains is the TGP. I let it sit for about 5 minutes – straight – using a spray bottle and it came right out. Then you flush it out WELL. If there’s a concern with something wicking back up you can protect the area with the protector and we’ve had good results with this. It’s always important to flush liquid stains well prior to protecting.
I have used tgp on small little wine spots that were more like splashes. I wonder what the tgp does to any fabric after 5 min meaning the glue and not starting to dissolve anything else. With the protector I have heard that that can work, but have never tried it.
Point taken on the dwell time of TGP. It is best applied to a spotting towel then dabed on stain, however have misted it on very lightly with no meling or seperation problems
Just the other day I tried taking out a koolaid stain on an expensive white upholstered dining chair. I used the red dye remover but was skeptical about putting heat to it so I just let the solution dwell. After a minute or so the red koolaid stain turned BROWN! Tried flushing out with water…..nothing. Even tried putting the steamer to it…….nothing. Has this ever happened to anybody else?
Did the customer try to clean it themselves first? Some over the counter cleaning products can react with our red dye remover to cause browning or even greening. Sometimes flushing it out with water after the first red dye treatment and repeating the process over again can cause it to lighten up more. Sometimes there’s no fixing it.
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