This is a rug I cleaned a few weeks ago that had severe fringe damage.
With all rugs that have fringes you have to be very careful when you vaccuum them not to let the beater bar of the vacuum go over the fringes. This causes alot of damage and eventually the fringes will start to come apart.

Fringes are what is called the Warp thread of the rug. Thi is the cotton or wool foundation of the rug that travels up and down the rug. Vertical. The Weft is the cotton or wool thread that runs left to right. Weft to right is an easy way to remember this. So if you are not careful with the fringes you will be damaging the foundation of the rug.

This is one of my favourite photos. this is dry soil that has been gently vibrated out of a rug using my RugBadger machine. Every rug goes through this process before any water is put onto the rug.

Its real simply, I lay a grid on the floor, place the rug upside down on the grid and then proceed to use the RugBadger on it until it has vibrated out all the dry damaging soil.

Its the same princple your grandmother used to do but she used a rug beating stick, and it was hard work!

For more amazing photos of the RugBadger cleaning results check out my website at www.plymouthrugcleaning.co.uk

A couple of beautifully made Hand-Knotted flat weave rugs on my inspection table.

All rugs get placed on my inspection table as this is one of the most important processes in successfully cleaning a rug.
I also do an inspection when im in rug owners home but i do a further one when I get the rug back to my rug facility.
I look out for things such as dye bleeding any damage or any other problems that may arises during the cleaning process.

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Check out Captain Rug Wash's website introduction video
I wanted to welcome my guest's to my website personally, so what better way then to do an intro video. Now I am not an actor and have never been comfortable in front of a camera but i gave it my best shot. well actually this took me about 47 takes to do!

congratulations to our competition winner

We recently ran a competition in a local magazine we advertise with. And the winner was Caroline Adams from Newton ferrers in Plymouth. I have just finished cleaning her Indian rug which is beautiful.

The rug was heavily soiled and had some bad satining onit, but it has come clean like new. I had to do a small repair on the rug as on the backing of the rug the side binding had started to come away from the corners, so I have repaired that and the rug is now ready to be delivered back to a happy customer.

keep a look out for more rug competitions featured on our website and or other social media networks

until next time
Captain Rug Wash