We dry your rugs fast

Here at Plymouth Rug Cleaning we dry your rugs very quickly.

Why do we do this? Sometimes dyes in rugs are not stable, which means they bleed.

The main colours that bleed tend to be reds blue and greens in my experience.

Bleeding or dye migration happens because there is excess dye in the rug, so when water is introduced to the rug the excess will mix in with the water and run. When the rug is then dried the colour that has run will dye the colour it lands on. Lets say the red in a rug bleeds onto the white area of the rug. The red will then stain that white area red.

That is why we always test the dyes in your rug before cleaning and then dry the rug flat on the floor ( sometimes upside down) and use airmovers and our batwing on them.

As you can see from the photos we can dry many rugs as one time using this process.

Afghan Rug Cleaning- Devon

Captain Rug Wash working in London

Captain Rug Wash recently cleaned some carpets in a property in Kensington, London.
it was a three story property with light coloured carpets all the way through.

Captain Rug Wash enjoyed leaving Plymouth for a day up in London. Listen to the video testimonial that his clients left for him at the end of the video. I think they were a little bit happy with the work that he did.

Cleaning Viscose Rugs

Chinese Rug Cleaning - Plymouth

This was an amazing rug I had in to be cleaned. 

A massive Chinese rug that had been mad for a family around 50 years ago. 

It was left in storage for 20 years until the clients moved and the rug needed to be cleaned.

This is a beautiful example of a Chinese rug.

One thing that I love about it is that the field and the borders are as one, with the field design flowing into the rug.

The rug was about an inch thick and their was damage around the side cords. This was due to the client cutting the rug to fitting around their furniture in their lounge! Amazing!

As you can see that's me laying ion the rug and I'm about 5ft 10.

I used my RugBadger on this rug and it pulled out enough soil, sand and dirt to fill a small kitchen bin bag.

Come along and see me at Rugcare.TV

A Damaged Chinese Rug

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Captain Rug Wash Products

Yes it's true! finally you can buy a rug and carpet cleaner that really works, without the use of detergents, shampoo or bleaches to deal with the stain. You can now own a bottle of Captain Rug Wash's rug and carpet stain and spillage remover.

At only £8.00 a bottle ( discounts available for multiple purchase's) you can now confidently tackle all spillages that happen on your rug or carpet in your home or work environment.

pretesting the solution on the area is always advised, as some dyes on handknotted rugs may not be colour fast.

So please email me at andi@plymouthrugcleaning.co.uk  and order your bottle now!

http://youtu.be/c36y47wS11s

Last month Captain Rug Wash paid a visit to London to do some carpet cleaning in Kensington.
Watch this video and find out what happened.

where you can find me

Hello everyone.

I am not on here as much as I would like, being so busy I just don't have enough hours in the day to be on here regulary.
So with my lastest post I want to re-direct you all to my new site.

www.rugcare.tv, Host Captain rug Wash talks all about rugs and his experiences cleaning them

Here is where you can also find me.
On Facebook- Simply type in Plymouth Rug Cleaning and add me. Or become a fan of Captain Rug Wash. Just type Captain Rug Wash into Facebook and hit the LIKE button.

On Twitter- Follow my tweets by searching for Captain Rug Wash and there you will find me.

On Linkedin- Just search for Andi Hill and you can view my profile.

Thank you all so much for reading my blog.

Your Friend
Captain Rug Wash

IM BACK!

Hello everyone, Sorry I have not been updating you all on the goings on with what I'm doing.
Well we are already into the second month of 2011 and my feet have not touched the ground yet! The New Year started off fantastic, I had a tonne of rugs land on my doorstep in January and my rug cleaning studio was getting pretty crowded!

Ive cleaned some awesome rugs so far including an Afghan that has been in a farm house for many many years and had so much dry soil in it that even I was shocked! After about 20 minutes of my badger treatment i finally got all the dry soil out, and ss a result, the deep colour reds really popped out of the rug. Because of all the dry soil the colours had become quite muted and dull, by getting all this soil out the colours were once again restored to their most vibrant colour.

I've also had several contemporary design rugs, which are always a pleasure to clean. I've also had a very brightly coloured Turkish rug.

I want to take a moment out to thank some of my loyal friends, who have returned to me with more of thier rugs already this year. Thank you Mrs Triscott for the beautiful persian rug you gave me to clean.

Now for the exciting news folks. As you know I am very passionate about rugs and I always want to provide my customers and friends with good information about rugs and rug cleaning. So my mission has been to provide somewhere rug lovers can go to get all the information they want on rugs.

So Im launching RugCare.TV! Its due to be launched next month, and I'm hoping it can be a place where I can provide you with information about rugs, somewhere you guys can ask me questions, and where you can say what you want to see on the show.

So keep glued to the internet for the first episode of Rugcare.TV.

Thanks for reading my first blog entry of 2011 (sorry it took so long!)

See you next time
The Captain

A very sexy rug

Hey rug fans!

As you have probably guessed by the title of this post today, I have just finished cleaning a very sexy rug. Now I know alot of you are reading this now with a shocked look on your face, and wondering if im a sandwich sort of a picnic! but im not.
And no, i dont think anyone has ever put the words rug and sexy in the same sentence, until now!

I picked this "sexy" rug up from one of my fans the other day and its a red hand knotted Morrocan rug, and its a stunner. The central medalion is mainly red with a beautiful ivory pattern, and the outer and inner fields are decorated with a beautiful design with bright blues and ivory colours and a hint of green.
And the wefts( the wool fiber that runs from left to right on the foundation of the rug) is RED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this rug is offically a BLEEDIER!!! I had to clean this rug very carefully, so carefully infact I could only dry clean it. I did my dry cloth test and my damp cloth tests and in all my tests the red transferred onto my white towel. that my friends is not good, not good at all.

So I just used my RugBadger on it and cleaned it with my low moisture system and the rug has come up like brand new, with NO colour run. I offically dare any of my not so well educated competitors to get the same result!

Any way I wanted to share this story with you as a warning to you all. Even if you have no intention of using me as your rug cleaner, please, please, please be careful when putting your rugs in the hands of someone who is not properly trained on how to handle "difficult" rugs.

Until next time rug fans, thanks for reading

The Captain

sorry its been a while

hey everyone, dont worry im still here!
I am sorry I have not been blogging for a while, ive been so busy cleaning rugs my feet have hardly touched the ground. Ive had some beautiful rugs lately in my studio, Ive had several amazing Persians and one in particular was the smelliest rug I have ever cleaned. It was a beautiful hand knoted Persian that was in really good condition. but! the owners dog enjoyed sleeping on the rug, so as you can imagine it was a bit smelly! but have no fear i successfully cleaned it and my new number 1 fan was over the moon. She was so impressed with the work i had done she handed me a rather large hand knotted Morroccan rug to clean, which iplan to do this week. Its very red and im very scared!!! only kidding i cant wait to get stuck into cleaning this rug.

Well folks sorry this post is not very interesting and there are no photos, but i just wanted to let you all know that im still here, and if you have any questions for me, please do not hesitate in getting in contact with me.

until next time everyone.
Thanks for reading

Your friend The Captain

Captain Rug Wash interviewed by Dusty of Rugbadger

Hey folks Captain Rug Wash is fast becoming an international superstar! he was interviewed last night by Dusty of Rugbadger in Canada.

He is one of the giants in the rug cleaning industry and the interview went really well.
Once he has it all downlaoded ill post it on here for everyone to enjoy. so stay tuned to my blog for the awesome interview. Thanks Dusty!

Captain Rug Wash

Stay tuned.......


Its now live on my website at www.plymouthrugcleaning.co.uk

 Go on, go check it out. And while your there, become a fan on my social media sites, and keep up with all the latest news.

Captain Rug Wash Live On The Radio

Hello everyone.
I hope you all enjoyed listening to my appearance on the David Fitzgerald show on BBC radio Devon last week.

It was an amzing experience and one that I really enjoyed. David and the team are so friendly and made me feel very relaxed and welcome. I was really nervous when i first got there, but once I got settled in, I did not mant to leave! I was on air for twenty minutes talking about rugs and i even had some great phones in too.
I could of sat there all day and taken phone in's! it was so much fun and a great chance for me to talk about my passion and to share my passion with a wide audience.

Before I left the show i gave a rug as a gift to Fitzy as a big thank you for having me on his show.

I really enjoyed the experience and I hope one day I can do it again soon.

Until next time folks! this is Captain Rug Wash signing off...
Captain Rug Wash

Captain Rug Wash Live On The Radio

Hello everyone,
Im very pleased and a little nervous to inform everyone that I will be live on the David Fitzgerald show on BBC Radio Devon on August 5th at 2pm.

I will talking about the wonderful world of rugs.
It all came about when i ran a competition in a magazine i advertise in. The competition was won by Caroline Adams who is a journalist for the BBC, she very kindly spread the news of captian Rug Wash and his crew around the BBC.

Before i knew it i received a phone call from the producer of the David Fitzgerald Show and asked me to come into the studio.

So I would like to thank Caroline Adams for supporting Captain Rug Wash!

So folks stay tuned to your radio's on August 5th and hear what i have to talk about.

Thanks for reading everyone and a big Thank You to everyone's support

Your Friend

Captain Rug Wash
Master Rug Cleaner

Hey everyone here is the first video of my journey to become a Master Rug Cleaner, keep posted to this blog to see the next instalment.

You can now enjoy more videos of rug cleaning and see what Captain Rug Wash gets up too exclusively at
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Captain Rug Wash's Journey To Become A Master Rug Cleaner

Im am really pleased to annouce that I have become a Master Rug Cleaner.
The course was a year long study into everythingrug! How they are weaved, where they are from, how they are dyed, what they were used for, what they are constructed from. I took the first exam last year which was held down in Cornwall, and after a year of research and studying i took my second part last week in London. The course was run by two of the top rug experts from America who came over to share their amazing amount of knowledge with us on the area of rugs. It was a long three days and the knowledge i have gained is unbelieveable. The history of rugs is simply beautiful, its one of the oldest traditions and its still going today! When it comes to fine hand knotted rugs the tools and techniques on weaving rugs has not changed for thousands of years. So you can now feel confident in using Captain Rug Wash to clean your hand knotted and machine made rugs. Thanks for reading everyone Until next time... Captain Rug Wash Master Rug Cleaner

Look out for the video diaries of the event coming soon...

is Captain Rug Wash out of business!?!

While visiting my girlfriend's cousin in Manchester last month I noticed this really cool poster in her kitchen. Along with domestic tips and tricks about cleaning and being a domestic goddess (or God, for us men out there), I scrolled down the list and found a section about proper care and maintainace of rugs.

I think I should of seen this poster before I invested a ton of money on machinery and courses!

I am soon to be embarking on a trip to London to take my final part of the Master Rug Cleaners course. This is a 3 day event where I will learn everything there is to know abot cleaning weaving and repairing rugs. Im so excited as I will be the only person in the South West of England with this qualification.

Until next time rug lovers!...

Captain Rug Wash

Captain Rug Wash meets author Gerard Donovan

I first meet Gerard Donovan at his office on the campus of Plymouth University early in May, the meeting was to look at his chinese rug that he had recently purchased. It needed a good clean as it had an issue with mould.

I reassured Mr Donovan that I could successfully clean the rug and take out the mould spores. After completing my rug inspection i took the rug back to 'HQ' and proceeded to clean it. The rug was a beautiful red chinese rug and I was worried about the red migrating into the ivory of the medallion on the rug. I did not have to worry, the rug cleaned up lovely, I returned the rug back to Mr Donovan today and he was very impressed with the work I had done. I showed him photos off processes during the rugs clean and I presented him with a bag full of dry soil that i had gently vibrated out of the rug.

If you would like to hear more about Gerard Donovan please check out this link found, there are many other sites about Mr Donovan, so please take some time out and check him out.

 Thanks for reading folks, until next time...

www.theshortreview.com/authors/GerardDonovan.htm