why do stains reappear a few days after cleaning my carpet?

Answer 1

2 reasons. Not cleaning deep enough into the carpet fibers and not removing all the cleaner. A spill will usually soak all the way through and into the pad under a carpet. After cleaning, the spot 'wicks' it's way back to the top. When you clean the stain don't rub with a towel or brush, that spreads it around. Use the towel to blot the spot ans soak up as much as you can. If your using a spot cleaner, you need to rinse the area. A carpet cleaning machine is best, but you can use a spray bottle of water and a wet/dry vacuum. The soap residue left in the carpet is a dirt magnet. The stains that come back after a few days are often new dirt stuck to soap residue.

Answer 2

Though the stain goes away for a few days visually, it is still there and will always be there. Possibly, it is even all the way through into the floor board itself, so to say that when water or moisture from the cleaning ativate the floor board's stain then in point the carpet again is stained. The carpet acting like a sponge sucks up the next in line for surface. So you come along and scrub at it again, take away that part of the stain for you to walk on it, moisture to attract and reactivate again.
The solution isn't just ripping up the carpet. The most solution is to figure out what the stain really is, and the remedy. If its Kool aid, try shaving cream, this will pull it out of the carpet fibers and turn the shaving cream the color of the kool aid. If its blood, clean with cold water. Oil, try a bit of vinegar to color test to make sure it doesn't ruin the carpet, but evidentally we're almost there anyway. Pet stain, specially made pet odor, and pet stain removal soaps. If you use anything else the stain in the floor board as it dried simply crystalizes as it waits for moisture, humidity, and the next carpet cleaning to activate it again.

Answer 3

I guess the residual stain rises up after the surface stain is removed? As in the stain isn't cleaned from the bottom, just the stain off the top. Who knows.

Answer 4

in simple terms prepare some bleach on the stain, wait slightly and do away with with moist cloth. i'm going to make the stain lighter. i exploit this technique while clean lemonade or pomegranate juice stains from cloth or carpets and that's completely works.

Answer 5

I have Berber (loop) carpeting and I am betting you do too, someone warned me that Berber is impossible to clean...so I don't know the answer but offer my sympathies........lol......cleaning helps for about a week and then the stains and dirt resurface...let me know when you get an answer,,,,,,,,,,