Oriental Rug Cleaning Pompano Beach, FL
Here at Delray Beach Oriental Rug Cleaning Pros, we are firm believers in cleaning most rugs as wet as they can be cleaned. The oldest way of cleaning these rugs is to wash them, and wash them we do! Let us take you through a typical washing. Keep in mind that not all rugs get the same treatment. The chemistry or moisture may vary for a variety of reasons but overall, this is the procedure:
First, we inspect your Oriental rugs with you, whenever possible, to get as much of a history as possible. We like to know the age and if it has ever been cleaned before, if it was washed or cleaned on location by a carpet cleaner. Knowing who washed or cleaned it last is helpful because we know many of the cleaners in this area as well as nationally and even internationally. We like to know specific concerns you may have like spots, stains, odors or repairs needed. We will also point out concerns we have as professional cleaners including conditions in the rug you may or may not be aware. After inspection, we dust the rugs in our dusting machine. This machine has over a hundred leather straps attached to a pole that gently but firmly slap the back of the rug and fed over a vacuum chamber. This dislodges and shakes out dry particulate soil that can eventually make the rug threadbare. In the past, the person cleaning the rugs would drape them over lines or fences and beat them with rackets or rug beaters or even sticks to remove the dry soil. This is one of the most important steps done to prolong the life of your rug. Natural fibers such as wool do not show abrasion like synthetic fibers do (most wall-to-wall carpet is synthetic like nylon) but that does not mean that the surfaces of the fibers are not abraded. One of the big problems is that most of us will not clean something unless it looks dirty. Wool does an excellent job of hiding soil but because the fibers do not show the abrasion, it is not apparent. The dry soil works its way down to the base of the fibers and as you walk on the rugs that soil has a way of cutting or sawing at the base and as we stated above, the rug will eventually become threadbare. |
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ORIENTAL RUG CLEANING COMPANIES IN POMPANO BEACH, FL
At Delray Beach Oriental Rug Cleaning Pros, we take the rugs to our wash area where we saturate them with fresh water. We often submerse rugs to treat them for mold, urine or other contaminants. The objective here is the wetter the better and this is very similar to your home laundry. You can wash more soil out of rugs the wetter you get them.
We gently scrub up the rugs using a lot of shampoo designed for Oriental rugs. In this step, there may be a variation in chemistry depending on the type of rug and the dyes used. Think about wool for a moment, if you take away the mystique often attributed to rugs, its animal hair and not much different from our own hair. How do you clean your own hair? 1) Thoroughly wet hair, 2) lather with shampoo, 3) rinse and 4) repeat. It is not rocket science but there are scientific principals involved. As professional rug cleaners we often wet, lather, rinse and repeat. Of course we clean both sides of the rug as well if the backing material permits us to do so.
We gently scrub up the rugs using a lot of shampoo designed for Oriental rugs. In this step, there may be a variation in chemistry depending on the type of rug and the dyes used. Think about wool for a moment, if you take away the mystique often attributed to rugs, its animal hair and not much different from our own hair. How do you clean your own hair? 1) Thoroughly wet hair, 2) lather with shampoo, 3) rinse and 4) repeat. It is not rocket science but there are scientific principals involved. As professional rug cleaners we often wet, lather, rinse and repeat. Of course we clean both sides of the rug as well if the backing material permits us to do so.
