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

Tibetan Rug

WOW i have just finished cleaning an amazing hand-knotted Tibetan rug a mix of wool and silk.
What a beautiful piece of craftsmanship, the foundation colour of the rug is royal red and wool and the pattern is ivory silk. This was one of my favourite rugs to clean. The dirt and grit that i removed from it using my rugbadger was unbelievable, almost half a freezer bag full.

This is the most important part of cleaning a rug, is removing all the dry soil. If this is not done once its wet all the soil will turn to "mud" and make the rug look awful. The dry soil literally acts like a knife and tears the fibres from the rug. This is why its so very important for rug owners to vacumm their rugs on a regular basis removing all of this dry soil really does increase the life of your rug.

I really do enjoy cleaning hand-knotted rugs and restoring the softness and colours through our cleaning process. You can really appriecate the time and skill it takes to make a rug like these.

Well im off back into the cleaning studio to get started onn the next rug.
Until next time

Captain Rug Wash

Little Critters

I visited a lady today who had a problem with a rug that she was slightly embarrassed about. After reassuring her that I have seen quite a lot of gross things that are related to rug cleaning, she explained her story to me.

Whilst on a weekend break to London with her husband and daughter, she had bought a very nice hand knotted Persian rug 2 months ago from a market stall in North London.
She returned with the rug to her home in Newton Ferrers, with the intention of laying it down in her daughter’s bedroom next to her bed.
After a few weeks their daughter was complaining of itching during the night. After further inspection by my client she found bite marks on her daughter’s skin which were painful.
After a few weeks of using body lotion products she had in the bathroom cupboard the problem was not going away. She visited the doctors and they discovered that her daughter was being bitten by either fleas or bed bugs. My client was horrified as she has always regarded herself as a clean and tidy person and her home is always tidy and kept neat and clean.
I received the phone call from my client and after hearing her story I arranged a time for me to come out and visit her. Armed with my microscope, gloves and inspection pad I arrived at her home and went straight to her daughter’s bedroom. I inspected the bed, carpet, skirting boards, all cracks and crevasse and finally the rug. I noticed bed bug evidence on the bed and mattress and I saw a few Bed Bugs on the mattress. I’ve seen many Fleas and obviously dustmites but this was one of the few times I have come across such a large volume of bed bugs.
As I turned by attention to the rug I noticed that a lot of the bed bugs were hiding in the rug.

Bed bugs only appear in the bed at night time when they can sense a warm body in it, so they can feed upon that body. During the day when the bed is cold and empty they like to stay hidden in cracks around the skirting board.

I showed my client the specimen jar I had used to collect the evidence and she was horrified to now that she had a bed bug problem. I advised her on the course of action I would take and she was more than happy for me to go ahead and do the work.

I went to my van and got the appropriate equipment out to clean the carpets, bed frame, mattress, curtains. I rolled the rug up and sealed it in a polyphene bag so none of the bed bugs could be transported to another room. When I returned to our rug cleaning facilities I gave the rug a full spa treatment clean and a course of action for the bed bugs. I returned the rug to my client and she was amazed at how well I had dealt with the problem. And also how well her rug had cleaned up.

She asked me how the bed bugs would have got in her house and my professional opinion would have been, seeing the rug was the only new (second-Hand) item they had bought into the house environment in the last couple months. I said to her they were probably from the rug and transported down from the previous house to her house.

My client was overjoyed at how well we treated her bed bug infestation. So if you have concerns about bed bugs, fleas, dustmites or any other creepy crawlies please do not hesitate in getting in contact with a member of our team.

Cleaning the flooring at Xcel wetsuits in Plymouth

First of all i want to wish Steve and the team at Xcel wetsuits all the best for the future in thier amazing new warehouse in Plymouth.

Steve phoned me up and explained that he was moving his company into a new warehouse, but before he could fill the warehouse up with wetsuits and surfboards it needed a through cleaning.

So in me and phil went with our scrubber machine and the very best solutions that we use and got to work scrubbing the concrete flooring. Getting rid of all the dirt and grease and dust, the flooring looked like new again after just a couple hours of work.

Next we moved onto the carpets in their lobbyway and showroom and again using our ECO- friendly cleaninf solutions we brought the carpets back to life and looking as good as new.

I even managed to rescue Amanda's handbag from an exploding fountain pen which leaked into the bottom of her bag.
www.ecs-sw.co.uk

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