The bucket of foam is for the headliner only. Not the rest.
I use prochem fine fabric shampoo. Because of the nature of headliners over wetting them will leave that brown water line. Called water marking. So by mixing the foam I use far less moisture. By using less moisture i lessen the chances of the headliner water marking and delaminating from it's padding.
2 oz of fin fabric shampoo in a gallon of warm water. Add the water in the bucket first, then the shampoo.
Add 1/4 - 1/2 gallon of water via pressure hose to make foam.
Take a grout sponge dip it in the bucket and wring it out. Massage the sponge (like an accordian) till it makes a shaving cream like lather.
Spread lather on 8x8 inch section of the headliner. Work it in with out actually agressively rubbing. You do not want the moisture of the sponge to transfer to the fabric.
Buff dry with a MF towel.
Set up air movers to speed drying.
Repeat on any trouble areas.
In this instance i forgot to take after shots, but I actually cleaned the spots in the two headliner shots 3 times before they were fully removed. I use the headliner cleaning as a fill in process for when i am waiting for something else to dry, or something else to haze. each time takes 20 min or less, but about 30-40 min to dry.
I will be seeing the car this week again, I will try and snap some shots of the headliner for reference.
As to the carpet
It was vacuumed, the trunk, mats, floor carpets and under rear seat carpet took about 1.5 hours to fully vacuum. Much of it was imbeded so i had to use the blower from the Hotwater extractor and my shop vac to full get things out of the fiber.
the trunk, mats, floor carpets and under rear seat carpet were then spotted with Bac-out spot and stain remover. I used this to get rid of soda spills, and coffee spills. Yes they are difficult to see on black carpet but they were there. I let this dwell while i prepped, cleaned and protected the matts.
The carpet was then sprayed down with Bio-kleens Traffic Lane cleaner. This product does a superior job on food and protien based soils. These are probably the most common types of soils in a car, behind just work truck dirt that is. I then agitated the fiber with a megs soft bristled brush letting it dwell for about 5 min.
The Hot water extractor had 1 oz of Dry slurry (a carpet rinse agent/final step detergent) in the solution tank. I then extracted each area, then dry stroked with the extraction tool, then final dry stroked with just the hose.
The fiber was then treated with Four Gaurd carpet protectant.
Blowers/air movers were set up in the bac seat floor area to speed up the drying process.
Excellent play by play! I felt like I was there. Great Job perfecting everything!
Greg
thanks greg
