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

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

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