Every once in a great while we will get a call dealing with tape residue. We have dealt with things such as an elderly customer duct taping their small area carpets, or runners so they won’t slide back and forth. We have also had a call to deal with a company that had a training class and created their display with tape on the carpet and left it for a couple of weeks. In both of these cases when it was time for these pieces to be pulled up the sitting residue in the carpet fibers was extremely goopy, bound the fibers together, and gave the carpet a dark appearance in those areas. Not to mention the adhesive also was a strong attractor of any form of dirt or spill. ‘
In many cases we can get this out. It depends a bunch of factors including the type of tape, how long it had been on the carpet, and the length of your carpet fibers.
-With the type of tape obviously duct tape is the stickiest/gooiest type on the market. It is much easier for us to remove a thin piece of shipping tape over the thick strong duct tape that usually ends up tearing up in sections as well.
-If the tape has only been on the carpet for a couple days most of the time when you pull it up there will be nothing underneath it except the normal carpet. If it has been weeks or months you will obviously be falling into a more serious problem as it has more time to break down.
-The third factor with the carpet fiber length is another important one. We have dealt with cases where the people had long fibers and when they went to pull the tape up they actually pulled up their carpet as well. This happens much more with longer carpets. Typically glued down short fiber carpets you can get the tape up no problem. With the shorter fibers however you run into another dilema meaning that you are trying to work an adhesive out of the carpet without ruining the adhesive attaching the carpet to the concrete floor underneath.
We have a product that can take care of the upper adhesive without disrupting the other part so please make sure to give us a call so you don’t damage your carpet any further. (877-9055)