AWPOV Rug Specialist, Inc

I went to a new client's home today to repair areas in their carpet that have lost color. This happens on nylon or wool fiber, which have dye sites. The homeowner used a spot cleaner she bought at the store that she saw advertised on TV. Many of these spot cleaners have a bleaching agent in them which will remove the stain but it also removes the original color of the carpet fibers. This is repaired by neutralizing the bleach and blending the colors back into the fibers until we have a match. This dyes are the same that are used in the carpet mills to color the carpet fibers, once we have finished the dyeing process- it is permanent.
The use of spot cleaners will cause many problems in your carpet or upholstery textiles. I do not recommend the use of spot cleaners as the homeowner has no way to throughly remove this chemicals from their textiles. Cold tap water will remove 95% of the spills and deposits in the home without leave a chemical in the textile to continue to react.