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I think it has too How about some information on what kind of dye, how did you apply it, approx drying time, etc. We've had members that wanted to rip out the shag carpet because they couldn't stand the color. This might be a fix they'd consider.
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I thought about ripping out the carpet, But decided to try this 1st... as my friend said its Canary Yellow you cant mess it up any more ...
ok...... I used Dark Brown RIT dye.. first I mixed a lil bit of dye and salt and water in a hand spray bottle and sprayed the mixture in a place that wouldnt be seen to see how it would take... it seemed to do well so I mix 2 bottles of dye and 1 cup of salt to 1.975 gals j/k
of water in a 2 gal pump-up sprayer and went to work spraying in on then rubbed it in with a rag. in some places I used the hand sprayer to get it in deeper I did saturate the carpet pretty good ..it made me a lil nervous ..but all the glue held the same ..it has been dry for about a week now and it doesnt seem to rub off or any other problem at this time. as for the counter tops and
fiberglass I kept a rag soaked with bleach/water near by a would wipe any dye the ran on it and it would bleach right out .. [b]Now I make no claims ... This is just how i did it... it took about 2 days to completely dry with it above 80* during the day.. I ran an elec heater in it some when it was cool...during that 2 days I also would respray some areas the looked lite or where the yellow stilll showed .. I still ave a few lil spots that I will do touch ups but over all it cost me about $10 and took about 6hrs to do... I hate to think what tearing it all out and doing something else would cost in time and labor.. But this was cheap fast and easy and worked very well in this senerio....Hope this help anyone...
anyone trying this just remeber to try it under the sink or inside a storage area first to see what you think FIRST...