Dying carpet
We have 14 year old Teton 5-wheel white carpet shows stains that will not shampoo out. Carpet in good shape. Would we be able to dye the carpet and make it look good? Any advice on what to use and how to do dying? Thanks Paul
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- Old carpets never die. They just get more rugged. ;)
- Around here to dye carpets you just call a carpet cleaner. It runs about twice the cost of just cleaning, they only go darker. They will test the carpet see if it will take the dye then if it does they clean your carpet once then clean it again with the dye in their cleaner and it's done.
jwolf55 wrote:
Around here to dye carpets you just call a carpet cleaner. It runs about twice the cost of just cleaning, they only go darker. They will test the carpet see if it will take the dye then if it does they clean your carpet once then clean it again with the dye in their cleaner and it's done.
In a rental house, I rented a carpet cleaning machine from the local grocery store and put in Rit dyde to handle some staining. Worked out pretty good- I may be wrong, but will more than likely have to remove the slides to access the carpet that is underneath.
- I used to work at a corvette shop and when we would get in a 70's-80's vette with red interior the rear carpet would almost always be fadded, I dyed a lot of them, I would fluff it up with a brush so as not to mat down the fibers and mask off and paint, ( spray cans ) it worked great, when it is dry take your hand or a brush and make it soft again, you can hardly tell it.
