Recent Rug Cleaning
This week I have found myself with a large quantity of rugs, in one case, the rug had not been cleaned for more than twelve years!
I was looking forward to seeing the amount of dry soil that I could get out of it before any cleaning took place, I prepared my dust collecting plastic sheet, making sure that it was flat and fixed to the floor.
After fifteen minutes continuous vacuuming on the rug’s facing surface, I turned it over, face down. Again, I vacuumed the rear of the rug for a full thirty minutes, resisting the temptation to take a peek.
I then removed the rug from the sheet, I was greeted by a huge quantity of sand, grit, skin, soil and much more, the grey deposit looked like sand, I carefully swept the dust into a pile and then into my dustpan, the entire dust content of this rug filled a standard mug, right to the surface!
Before any cleaning had taken place, I had managed to remove a serious amount of dry soil, which is crucial when trying to clean a rug. I do often get asked to ‘run over’ people’s rugs when I am carpet cleaning, without following the correct method, you can actually damage a rug, the quantity of dust I had just removed would have quickly turned into mud/sludge…….now that would be difficult to remove.
This rug had come from a sleepy part of Meads, Eastbourne, not a house near a busy road or in a city, just imagine the dry soil in your innocent looking rug.