Hello joe,I use magic potion on 90% of my jobs and love it The only time you will have browning is high ph on wool or 100% cotton I bet the carpet your cleaning is a olfin type.
carpets don't, least not that i've ever seen. i dunno if the older style carpets with a Jute backing shrank, i wasn't around back then (decades ago).
no berber is gonna shrink. only time i was worried of browning is leaving the carpet too wet. it's a pitfall with HWE operator inexperience. not a concern for VLM operator inexperience, least not that i can see.
you just have a good case of the jitters Joe....we've ALL had them. sometimes i still do, but i'm a noob :)
hope this helps some --- Derek.
BTW, recently spoke with a Steamway rep about their cleaning solutions. when he mentioned olefin berber he taught me that since olefin is oil loving, you don't want to use a solvent based cleaning solution on it. you do want to use something surfactant based.
i'm no chemist, wish i was, but i know my encap solutions are all surfactants. so like today, i use them on olefin berbers.
have you taken a carpet cleaning course yet Joe? they teach ya how to ID fibers. personally, i never ID fibers, tho i technically should. i doubt i'm the only one. but i don't use high pH cleaners or high heat so i figure i should be safe :)
The only products I use on a day-to-day basis are:
1. my natural products from Bioforce:
a. Carpet & Upholstery Cleaner. Neutral pH. &
b. Outsolv. pH of about 8 - 8 1/2. and
2. Encap products: Releasit & SnapEncap. Both are neutral, I believe.
I'm not aware that I have ever caused browning to occur with any of these products. So fire away!
