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.
Your friend
Captain Rug Wash
Make Your Rugs Look Good As New With Captain Rug Was And His Crew
Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Tuesday, 21 June 2011
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
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
Saturday, 21 May 2011
Hello everyone,
I was very lucky to spend some time in Cyprus recently with my family.
We took a day trip to Northern Cyprus which was simply beautiful.
Walking around we found a brilliant little rug shop owned by a lovely guy called Cem.
I could of spent all day with him in his shop. He was an amazing fountain of knowledge and his collection of rugs were beautiful, and I could of bought all his rugs back with me!
Here are some of the photos that I took over there.
Thank you Cem for looking after us and for the drink!
Once again thank you for taking the time to read my blog.
Your friend
Captain Rug Wash
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
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
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
Thursday, 4 November 2010
Education Through Expeditions-Antony Jinman
I want to share with you today what my good friend Antony Jinman is up to.
Antony is a local professional explorer and educator on climate change and he is launching an Antarctic expeditions in the footsteps of Captain Scott.
This will be marking the city's heros death 100 years ago.
Antony will be to travel to the site where Scott and his party died and they will hold a memorial service there. This will be happening in 2012 to help celebrate the 100th anniversary.
Descendants of those on the scoot expedition will be the 2nd party who will meet Antony and his team at the site for the commemoration ceremony.
Antony's Education Through Expeditions project is based at the University of Plymouth.
If you would like to find out more about Antony and his project, and more about the
International Scott Centenary Expedition (isce) please copy and pasted these addresses into your browser.
http://www.etelive.org/index.numo
http://www.etelive.org/content/content.numo?ida=1&idas=21
You can also find Antony on Facebook and Twitter
I would like to wish Antony and all his team the very best of luck for the project.
I could sit here and write a long blog entry about Antony and all that he does, but his website is just so amazing and packed with a ton of information that I would rather direct you guys to him rather then sit and read what I have to say. Antony is a great person and he is doing so much to help educate people on climate change, and the guy is so passionate, he came round to have Dinner with me and The Fox one evening and I could of listened to him talk for hours, its so amazing to hear what he has to say.
Thanks for reading rug fans,
The Captain
Antony is a local professional explorer and educator on climate change and he is launching an Antarctic expeditions in the footsteps of Captain Scott.
This will be marking the city's heros death 100 years ago.
Antony will be to travel to the site where Scott and his party died and they will hold a memorial service there. This will be happening in 2012 to help celebrate the 100th anniversary.
Descendants of those on the scoot expedition will be the 2nd party who will meet Antony and his team at the site for the commemoration ceremony.
Antony's Education Through Expeditions project is based at the University of Plymouth.
If you would like to find out more about Antony and his project, and more about the
International Scott Centenary Expedition (isce) please copy and pasted these addresses into your browser.
http://www.etelive.org/index.numo
http://www.etelive.org/content/content.numo?ida=1&idas=21
You can also find Antony on Facebook and Twitter
I would like to wish Antony and all his team the very best of luck for the project.
I could sit here and write a long blog entry about Antony and all that he does, but his website is just so amazing and packed with a ton of information that I would rather direct you guys to him rather then sit and read what I have to say. Antony is a great person and he is doing so much to help educate people on climate change, and the guy is so passionate, he came round to have Dinner with me and The Fox one evening and I could of listened to him talk for hours, its so amazing to hear what he has to say.
Thanks for reading rug fans,
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
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
Monday, 1 November 2010
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
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
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