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

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

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's visit to Tunisia

hey everyone and welcome to another blog entry by Plymouth's famous rug cleaning Superhero.

Today I want to share with you the story of my travels with my girlfriend to Tunisia this year. We stayed a week in the 5star Royal Azur hotel in Hammet, which was absolutly beautiful.
We spent the whole week exploring the local areas and meeting interesting locals at the markets and medinas. Picking up quite alot of 'bargins' along the way. At one point I was lucky to get out of the medina one day. All the marketers want you to buy their stock and you have to be pretty quick witted to negoiate your way out. An amazing experience that I would recommend to anyone.

We did plenty of day trips, with a lovely couple we met over their called Laura and Jason, it was nice to spend time with another couple and enjoy these places we went to with them. We visited beautiful places like Carthage, Sidi Bou said and Tunis which are amazingly stunning places. We also had a tour of the Roman ruins which is breath taking.

The highlight of my trip though was experiencing first hand the local women weaving rugs on thier rug looms. We mainly saw these women in small shops in the medinas, sat on a little stool and using the Persian knot to create beautiful rugs of various sizes. I could not help myself i had to come away with a rug! so I invested in a small but beautiful rug that is sat nicely on our lounge coffee table.

We thoughly enjoyed our trip to Tunisia and we would love to head back their one day. I would recommend visiting this country to any one who wants a bit of adventure, busy local life and plenty of beautiful beaches and sun.

Until next time folks, thanks for reading
Capatin Rug Wash

Captain Rug Wash meets Stonecare Superman

I was very fortunate recently to be interviewed by the UK's number one Stone Care Restoration specialist in Manchester. His name Mike Philbin AKA Stonecare Superman.

Mike is a very good friend of mind and he has a very popular TV channel.



every week he airs episodes regarding anything about stone, from cleaning tile and grout all the way through to polishing marble.
This guy is so passionate about stone restoration its amazing. He has been working with his families very successful stone floor and carpet cleaning business for many years now.



I was up visiting Mike for the Stone traing course that he runs. A brilliant course about how to clean and restore every kind of stone flooring.
As a rug cleaner im noticing more and more rugs being laid on top of beautiful natural stone in homes, So i thought it was about time to pay a visit to my good friend ( and the UK leading natural stone care expert!) to gain some knowledge.

I had a brilliant time at StonecareTV studios and enjoyed every minute of being on the show. So thanks Mike for inviting me on.

So please if natural stone is something you are interested in please check out my friend Mike via the links.

Until next time folks.
your friend

Captain Rug Wash

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

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