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I have run into 2 jobs with pink areas on light colored carpet. The areas were in a room where a water bed was., The other was were a dresser was. Two seperate homes with the same discoloration?? Has anyone run into this?? Has it ever been explained.??
Gary,
I have seen this in 3 homes where light color (white or light neutral) carpet was in a room that was exposed to sunlight. It was just a guess of mine but I told the customer that the gasses that are constantly being released from the pad was trapped in the carpet because of the low, or tight to the floor, furniture. Like I said, it’s just a guess but it makes sense to me and the customer bought it. Sun fadeing of the exposed areas along with no fading of the covered areas could also be the issue. Maybe the carpet originally had a pink tint to it but now it’s faded away. Again, just a guess.Just my stab, but pink is part of the primary color red. If there was a color loss in the carpet of the blue and yellow it would leave a pink tint. We have tried to remove a red stain on a carpet before and it took out the color of the carpet dye and left it with a pink stain. The good news was the red stain was now a light pink, but now it was the exact size of the steaming iron. This could be a manufacturing defect from the dye.
there is a chemical in pad called bht,that is abbreviated.this in time will cause dicolorations in carpet when to wet for extended amount of time ,will help cause brown out.its possible that it will turn carpet diff color when covered up for a very long time.i have seen this alot also.with area rugs also that wre on the floor prior
I have seen pink discolorations in some moist areas.
Moisture can be trapped by desk chair pads. I can certainly see where it would be trapped by a waterbed, or simply laying a rubber mat on top of carpet.
I have seen some furniture leave wood stain marks on the carpet. Usually where there are spills or the carpet wet from a soak and suck cleaner and the furniture was moved back too soon without protectors under the legs.
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