Mill Oil / Loom Oil / Spin Finish in Carpet - Removal
Follow These Steps to Remove Mill Oil Residue from Carpet
Mill oil, also called loom oil, spin finish or yarn lubricant, is the lubricant used in the carpet tufting machines and sometimes gets onto the carpet face during the tufting process.
Yellowing from mill oil in carpet usually occurs in straight lines.
Mill oil residue is most common on solution dyed fibers, such as olefin, because the step followed by the carpet manufacturer in rinsing out dyes is not needed and so the mill oil isn’t removed either.
- Apply TLS® 2000 or Olefin Preconditioner Carpet Prespray / Traffic Lane Spotter as the prespray and use normal extraction cleaning using PCA™ Formula 5 or PCA™ Formula 4.
- If this is a residence or other area where children may crawl around on the carpet and the high pH TLS 2000 was used, do a Brown Out® flush by rinsing the carpet with a 2-4 ounce per gallon solution of Brown Out in water with no detergent through the base unit or a portable carpet extractor to remove all alkaline residue.
- Apply ARA Anti-Resoiling / Anti-Wicking Agent to reduce resoiling by absorbing any remaining residue.
VIDEO: How to Correct Mill Oil Contamination on Carpet
Video excerpt from a Bane-Clene® spot and stain removal class conducted by the Bane-Clene chemist at the Indianapolis training center. Video shows an example of mill oil or spin finish on olefin berber carpet and how we removed it.