We’ve all come across it. The tenant moves out and you are confronted with a place you don’t recognize as yours. The walls are scuffed,, the appliances are dirty, and the carpets look as if the tenants have been having salsa parties every weekend. Tenants rarely show the same respect to your purchase as you would. Have you ever had a tenant who used the carpet for an ironing board, or an ash tray, or the one who’s cat preferred the carpet over the litter box? It never ceases to amaze us how much damage tenants can do to carpets.
Carpet Color Solutions specializes in spot/stain removal, spot dyeing, full room dyeing, spot repair and carpet restoration. Bleach spots, pet stains, sun fading, carpet burns, water stains, Kool-Aid and food stains, traffic lane, and all discolorations that many carpet cleaners cannot correct- we can! Carpet Color Solutions can restore the beauty, color, functionality, life and appearance of your carpet at a fraction of the cost of new carpet.
We are certified experts, using advanced stain removers and techniques that will completely eliminate stains and odors without harming your valuable carpets. Unfortunately, urine is one of the most difficult stains to remove. Pet urine can affect the dyes used in carpet, sometimes permanently. In beige carpet, blue dyes are attacked by pet urine, leaving behind the red and yellow dyes with a resulting stain appearing red, yellow, or orange. Carpet cleaning cannot repair these spots. 
Dyeing carpet has become a salvation for rental property owners. We can restore missing colors in spots usually caused by urine, bleach, or harsh cleaning chemicals. Up until recently, when traditional carpet cleaning did not adequately remove stains and other blemishes, the only solution for the property owners was to either leave the unsightly faded or stained carpeting, or replace it.
While the technique known as carpet dyeing has been around almost as long as carpet has been in existence, on-location carpet dyeing is a more recent practice that has only been around for the last couple of decades. Most residential carpeting is first dyed at the carpet mill prior to delivery and installation at the residence. Up until recently, when traditional carpet cleaning did not adequately remove stains and other blemishes, the only solution for the property owner or resident was to either live with the unsightly faded or stained carpeting, or replace it. However, depending on the economic situation faced by the property owner or resident, in some cases replacing the carpeting is not a viable option. Apartment and rental owners are generally more price sensitive when it comes to carpet replacement. However, low vacancy rates, skyrocketing rents, and abnormal increases in equity during the early to mid-2000s, made carpet replacement between tenants a cost-effective option, as it was easy to recoup the costs of this investment. In fact, many inexperienced and new multi-unit property owners were installing new carpeting, even in cases where there was just a small, yet unsightly bleach spot or stain in the middle of a room. Even large conglomerate property management companies put new floor covering policies in place, due to the pressure generated by high rental rates. For example, when a resident is paying $1,000 to $2,000 for a two-bedroom unit, it is hard for the property manager not to justify new carpeting.
Today, however, with foreclosures on the rise and property values dropping, whether renting or selling, these same property owners are now looking for alternatives to new carpeting, in order to reduce costs while improving their return on investment. What makes this decision increasingly complex is the usable life of the carpet, as well as the possibility of the previous tenant or owner covering all or part of new carpet costs. As such, carpet dyeing has become an increasingly viable alternative to carpet replacement. What most people don’t understand is that carpet dyeing is not like painting. Instead, the technician uses the spot color as the base and mixes the appropriate colors to match the original carpet color. Many daily household activities can cause these stains and blemishes. For example, if a chlorine-based solution, like bleach, is applied to carpet, even if it is wiped up immediately, it will still cause a light stain to appear within a couple of days. Pet stains can also degrade the color of carpeting and cause light spots to appear throughout a room. Each of these situations can be aptly dealt with through spot treatments. In more extreme cases where there are multiple discolored and colored spots throughout the unit, a complete carpet re-dyeing may be the best option. In this case the carpet is prepped for the extreme color variation spots and the carpet is then dyed a shade or two darker than the original color. This method completely covers the stains or blemishes, for a fraction of the cost of new carpeting, and can be completed in less than a day, giving the property owner the ability to extend the life of the carpeting in that unit.
Note: Generally, on-location dye work in occupied residential property is limited to spot or faded areas due to the inconvenience it causes for the tenant, in particular the need to relocate furnishings during the process. 
Do you have carpets damaged by tenants? Here’s A Smart Way To Protect Your Investment…
Encourage the tenants to contact us directly. Remind them that carpet care is their responsibility, and if they do nothing, and let you take care of it, they risk losing their deposit.
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