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The other day I walked into a vacant home that was new on the market. I was there to clean before the first open house. This place had THICK BLACK filtration lines throughout the upstairs 3 brs, hall MBR and walk-in closet. The worst I have ever seen. The realtor asked if there was anything that could be done about this. I knew I only had about a half bottle of filtration line remover, so I said that I would test an area and see what she though.
Long story shorter, she wanted me to do it and we agreed on $300 for the filtration line removal.
Since I didn’t have enough FLR to do anything really, I mixed a jug of FAE and sprayed the Filtration lines in an area, agitated with my foot, let it dwell for 5-10 min., then sprayed our regular cleaning mix (12oz 101, 1 scoop QB, 3oz cherry almond deo per 2.5 gal jug) through my spot plus extractor, agitated again with my upholstery brush and extracted. THE FILTRATION LINES MELTED AWAY COMPLETELY!!! AMAZING! The realtor was going to put into the listing an allowance for carpet replacement until she saw that there was no indication that there had ever been any filtration lines.
This is the only way that I have seen filtration lines completely removed. It doesn’t take that much extra time after you get the initial FAE sprayed and dwelled. FAE and QB rule!
I just booked a job at probably the most expensive house I’ve ever been in above downtown Portland.
They had a company out previously that is considered to be the largest high-end cleaner in our market. The cleaners threw their hands up at the filtration line problem and told the housekeeper that the owners would have to replace the carpets or live with the dark spots created by the tack strips and the filtration lines.
I went in yesterday and did a test area for the housekeeper and the interior designer and they loved the reult. After the lady of the house reviews it, we are going to schedule one van to be there for at least 2 days at $100/hour to take care of all the filtration lines and clean a few hundred square feet of carpet where a U.S. Senator dribbled some coffee.
Evidently, nobody in town that I’m aware of is able to completely remove filtration lines as we are. Fast Acting Enzyme is making me alot of $$$$.
Jeremy,
Are you extracting the lines or hand toweling/buffing? I wish I would have read your post earlier as I had a room that not only had filtration lines along the perimeter but also across the room along each floor joist and around the furniture skirts. This was on an all white carpet, very plush and dense. Could this be treated w/ FAE similar to a heavy traffic area and buffed or do you think should it be soaked and extracted?
Brian
I also had a home with white carpet and filtration lines at every joint in the subfloor. Homowner didn’t know why they appeared. I have cleaned on them several times and each time they get lighter and hardly show anymore. I just buffed them and used a finishing towel on the last pass.
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