What every rug owner needs to know

Supermarket hired machines and cleaning solutions can permanently damage your rug. 

Rugs are an investment for your home and can be expensive. You would not clean a Picasso painting with washing up liquid so why use a cheap cleaner on your expensive rug.
Poor rug cleaning can lead to dye bleeding, shrinkage and odour. This isn't always easily corrected. Find out how to avoid these problems and not destroy your expensive rug. If your thinking about being your own rug doctor it could lead to disaster.

A few key points when cleaning rugs successfully,

* Dry soil removal
* Check colours don't bleed
* Rapid drying


Don't Turn It Muddy
Why hired cleaning machines don't give a rug a full deep clean that your rug deserves, is simple. The main important process in rug cleaning is dry soil removal. If you don't remove the dry soil from a rug before cleaning, all your are doing is spraying water and cleaning solution down on top of "dust".
What happens when dust gets wet? it turns to mud. And mud is very difficult to remove from rugs and carpets.

What we do at Plymouth Rug Cleaning is very simple but highly effective for full cleaning of rugs. We use our Rugbadger to vibrate out up to 80% of all dry soil in your rug. This means we are cleaning the fibres of the rug and not making mud.

Don't let it  Bleed
Its very important to check the fastness of dyes in the rug. Yes on the label of your chosen machine and cleaning products, it will say test in an inconspicuous area before cleaning. But lets be honest here how many people would do this.

We test every colour in the rug, starting with the colours most likely to bleed, reds,blues and blacks. We then set the dyes as best we can and then clean the rug. The non-colour fast dyes will set in lighter colours, ie ivory, in the drying process if they are not treated.

Dry It Quick
It's very important to make sure the rug after cleaning is dried quickly. If you have used hot water to clean with, the theory is it will dry faster, but, hot water will make the colours bleed more then cold water.

No matter how much water you put on the rug to clean it, the water has to be extracted out. This will avoid dye bleed, shrinkage, odour, mould, mildew and damage to the structure of your rug.

Its always safer for your rug to have it professionally cleaned by someone who has been trained and understands the structure, fibre and cleaning techniques.

Find out more about how and why we clean rugs the way we do at my YouTube channel. Please follow this link Rug Cleaning Videos

You can also find more information at our website follow the link here to take you too it Rug Cleaning

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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

Silk rug cleaning - Plymouth

This is a video of a beautiful big Chinese silk rug. My client has had it for a few years, but before that it was in a rug shop for many many years and over time a strange mark had appeared on it, find out more by watching this video.

Cleaning Rugs- Plymouth

Here at Plymouth Rug Cleaning we professionally clean all hand knotted rugs.

As you can see in this video, this rug is used in the hallway of a house and has very heavy foot fall on it.
This foot fall creates wear marks.

Cleaning Viscose Rugs

Cleaning rugs from China

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.

Properly vacuuming your rug

I get asked all the time about how to properly vacuum their rugs, without damaging them. In this video I tell you how often and which vacuum cleaners are the best to use, without causing damage and getting the best results of dry soil removal.

Thanking some great friends

I would not be where I am today if it was not for the support of my friends in the rug world. S I did this sort video to thank a couple of people who have helped me this month.

Stain Removal

This is a video about the correct way to tackle spills on rugs in your home. Ill tell you what to use and what not to use. So listen closely to this video and it will save you the heart ache of ruining your rugs with poor cleaning products.

The advantage of Rug Protection

This is a short video by Captain Rug Wash telling you about the advantage of having your rugs protected after they have been professionally cleaned. 

You can now find Captain Rug Wash, the UK famous rug cleaning superhero, at his new internet TV Show. RugCare.Tv

Just look at the dry soil dirt and grit that comes out of this rug!

A thank you message from Captain Rug Wash.

Im back.......again!!!

Well its been a while since I wrote that last post. And quite simply... I'm so excited about sharing all the latest news and goings on here at Plymouth Rug Cleaning, that I simply can't stay away!

A lot has been happening lately. I have a new website that was launched about 3 weeks ago. Go check it out at
www.rugcare.tv

And also there could be a trip to New York City next month to meet some of the big players in the rug industry. People including Stephen 'Dusty' Roberts, Barry O'Connell and Thea Sands. Watch this space, I've gotta check my piggy bank.

so as always there is a ton of stuff going on over here at Plymouth Rug Cleaning. And I promise I'm going to keep you posted with everything that is happening.

Make sure you pop along to www.rugcare.tv  click on the Charity page and check out my good friend John Bryden.

Thanks for reading another of my posts, I look forward to writing another one very very soon.

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Captain Rug Wash