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Offline Bill Martins

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Wool Rug
« on: September 02, 2008, 04:49:28 PM »
I got a client that has a wool area rug, she says it is not an oriental rug.  Her dog took a potty break on it and she tells me its pretty visible and smells.

I'll be using the challenger, and i was thinking of ordering some LHP from Vacaway, i spoke to the lady there today and she told me sometimes they have also used hot knife on it.  I just don't want to ruin the rug. 


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Re: Wool Rug
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2008, 07:39:48 PM »
I would test any product to see if it would affect the rug?

LHP does seem to be the product to use but I'm unsure about the odor? May need to treat that with something else?

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Re: Wool Rug
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2008, 11:14:56 PM »
LPH will clean the rug, but not do a lot for the urine. Sometimes we have been able to treat the wool rug in place with UR Out if there is not a lot of contamination. You just have to use twice as much of it as normal due to it being wool.

On heavy contamination, we take the rug home and use lots of UR Out and then flush it a LOT with the Steamin Demon, until the extracted water runs clear. Then it's multi-fan dried and groomed.

Magic Wand has come out with OSR for Wool...haven't tried it yet, but their regular OSR is top notch...

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Re: Wool Rug
« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2008, 07:18:14 AM »
Mike - That looks like a great option.

I like the fact its powdered too.  :)

Offline Bill Martins

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Re: Wool Rug
« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2008, 11:42:42 PM »
I ordered a bunch of chems @ vacaway today, but did not get the lph, steve's daughter told me that they've used hot knife on wool rugs before w/out a problem but offcourse by testing it first.  I will do my best to try this, but if it's as bas as the woman says it is im gonna pass on it, don't have a location nor space in my home to do area rugs, nor do i want to use the TM that i used to rent either.

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Re: Wool Rug
« Reply #5 on: September 04, 2008, 11:39:34 AM »
Bill.

I am not an expert on rug cleaning just a student. Pee Radicator is way too high on the PH scale for wool. However. there is a guy from New Zealand thats been cleaning wool rugs for 100 years with cleaning solutions on the high PH side and never had a problem. I think the trick might be to make sure it doent remain on the high side, but that another topic of discussion.

If the urine odor is heavy your gonna have to flood, submerge, or flush like Charles is doing to remove the odor and with a solution that is safe to use on wool. Since you don't have a wash pit or Demon. I read this on one of the boards. You lay a plastic on the floor, lay some padding and put the rug on the padding and flood the rug with the cleaning solution. You then take a water claw and extract the solution and dry with air movers. I never have tried it, but sounds like a good way to remove the water from the rug.

What I would recommend is that you make contact with the biggest and best rug plant in your area. Let them know that you would like to subcontract rug cleaning to them. The standard charge is normally 50% below their retail charge. You can start marketing rug cleaning and clean the synthetics, or wools that you feel comfortable cleaning yourself. If you get cotton, silk, Navajo rugs, Orientals, odor issues or anything else you don't want to clean you can send it to them.
This will give you time to learn about cleaning rugs and purchase the right equipment to do the job. The plant that I am going to use even picks up the rugs at my location. Check it out.

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Re: Wool Rug
« Reply #6 on: September 04, 2008, 06:31:20 PM »
Bill.



What I would recommend is that you make contact with the biggest and best rug plant in your area. Let them know that you would like to subcontract rug cleaning to them. The standard charge is normally 50% below their retail charge. You can start marketing rug cleaning and clean the synthetics, or wools that you feel comfortable cleaning yourself. If you get cotton, silk, Navajo rugs, Orientals, odor issues or anything else you don't want to clean you can send it to them.
This will give you time to learn about cleaning rugs and purchase the right equipment to do the job. The plant that I am going to use even picks up the rugs at my location. Check it out.

I was actually thinking about the same thing today. Picked up the rugs this afternoon - came out to roughly $360 for 3 rugs. 

the largest one is around 7 by 10 ft, not too big...but it is saturated w/ pee...the others aren't that bad.

i'm gonna call some of these rug plant companies up tomorrow and see what's going on, hopefully they charge less than what i charged my client @ $3.00/sqft.



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