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Carpet Cleaning Technician 2024 Exam Questions With 100% Answers

1. filament a single strand of a natural or synthetic fiber

2. natural fibers More expensive, require more drying time
Ex: Wool Cotton Silk

3. Synthetic Fibers By-product and man made
Ex:Nylon Polyester Olefin Acrylic

4. Two types of Natural cellulosic=plant and protein=animals
Fibers

5. Wool Natural crimp so springs back, stains easily, high
alkalinity can damage it, very absorbing, comes from
fleece, most common natural fiber

6. What fiber type is Wool, it hides soil well BUT wool absorbs dye there-
Opaque and what fore it stains easily
does that mean?

7. Cellulosic Fiber Strong, absorbent, shrinks (often used as backing of
Facts carpet so carpets don't shrink the backing shrinks)

8. Browning out When a cellulosic fiber gets too wet it releases brown
dye and you must use an acid rinse to fix it

9. Sisal Type of cellulosic fiber, color can be removed when
cleaned so best to use dry powder cleaning tech-
nique

10. Dry Powder Cleaning Sprinkle a powder use a machine to brush it in after
20mins soil should be absorbed then vacuum all the
powder up

11. Encapsulation Neutral Cleaner... machine like cymax machine to
brush powder in to absorb soil and then vacuum up

12. Jute Plant fiber so *cellulosic*, susceptible to *mold* dam-
age and if over wet it will *shrink*

13. Abrasion


, Carpet Cleaning Technician 2024 Exam Questions With 100% Answers
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Scratches on the side of carpet, typical reason why
people replace carpet, happens to planet fiber car-
pets

14. 5 Gen of Nylon 1. *round* fibers which *magnified* dirt so 2. The
*shape* was *changed* in order to *reduce apparent
soiling* 3. Then *carbon core fiber* was added to
reduce static 4. Then *Fluorochemical soil repellent*
*ex: Teflon*was added to reduce soiling 5. Then when
things like kool aid was invented, *acid dye resis-
tance* was applied b/c fluoro is only for soil and didn't
repel dyes

15. Nylon is dissolved by Formic acid

16. 2 kinds of ions cations and anions acid dye resistant carpet is
cationic so must use anionic cleaning products on it

17. Polyester Synthetic, PET, either disperse dyed or solution
dyed, naturally stain resistant, low absorbable bc
moisture goes around the fiber, eco friendly and
cheaper, hard to dye, attracts oil, crimp loss so can
matte and appear darker typically happens in straight
lines or sections

18. Solution dyed Color is added to the polymer solution prior to extru-
sion (so it's dyed before becoming a fiber)

19. Ohliphilic Attracts oil (polyester and olefin)

20. New Polyester is Triexta
called

21. Olefin Also called polypropylene which is the backing of the
carpet, least absorbent fiber 10% of moisture, hard
to stain, attracts oil, always solution dyed, does not
have dye blocker in it so can use cationic cleaners

22. Loop like carpet Berber carpet



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23. What carpet does not Olefin
have dye blocker in it

24. What fiber type floats Olefin
on water

25. Volatile Solvents Evaporates quickly and reacts with chemicals so
doesn't need to be rinsed

26. What fiber type does Olefin
not bounce back

27. What fiber has a low Olefin which is below 300 degrees
melting point

28. Stain vs Spot Stain dyes the carpet while spots is something that
sits on top of the carpet

29. Wicking the ability of a fiber to transfer moisture along its
surface so soil at base of fiber can come back to the
surface causing a stain to reappear and look brown

30. How to avoid wicking Thoroughly vacuum or extract, speed dry with fans

31. Acrylic Man made wool that is solution dyed mainly used as
doormat, light weight full and soft

32. Rayon Aka fake silk art silk or faux silk and you never clean
it because it bleeds just vacuum it

33. 3 ways to identify Visual chemical and burn (simple and relatively ac-
fibers curate)

34. Burn test tips Use a lighter with butane because it's odorless and
don't burn side that has carpet glue in it, use carpet
Awl to lift carpet for a fiber

35. Wool dissolved in Sodium hypochlorite

36. Burning hair



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Wool smells like
when burnt

37. Rayon smells like Burning paper
when burnt

38. Cotton smells like Burning paper
when burnt

39. Acetate smells like Acetate acid
when burnt

40. Acrylic smells like Harsh, acrid charred meat
when burnt

41. Nylon smells like Celery or sealing wax
when burnt

42. Polypropylene Olefin Asphalt or burning paraffin
smells like when
burnt

43. Polyester triexta Sweet overripe fruit
smells like when
burnt

44. Two types of fibers Continuous and staple

45. Extrusion Push through a hole so forcing molten polymer
through a shower head device called spinerette

46. Spinerette a specialized instrument used in manufactured and
synthetic fiber production which extrudes chemical
solutions through small shaped holes to create con-
tinuous filament fibers

47. Crimping Process of creating bulk, the bend that's put in fiber
that causes resilience

48. Pile Multiple layers of carpet

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