[richie bloom]

hi all im about to clean my first woolen rug, any tips or suggestions use can give me! be much appreciated.

[Jim_77]

Just remember what you learned on your training course(s)

[wynne jones]

Yeah pop up a couple of pictures back and front.

[Susan Dean (1stclean)]

Just remember what you learned on your training course(s)

glad ive never done any if there so good you cant rembemer how to do a simple thing as a rug

[james roffey]

Susan

What a stupid thing to say, you must have nothing left to learn to make such a comment.

Whatever the merits of taking these courses, it demonstrates that the person taking them is keen to learn the correct methods and skills needed to build a professional and successful  business. some rugs are very prone to dye bleed and care should be taken when deciding what chemicals to use, we are working on peoples possessions sometimes they are irreplaceable and or very valuable, carpets in customers homes are one of the single biggest investments, gaining a little knowledge on working on them rather than learning from mistakes made in customers home is surely prudent, and that behaviour should be applauded, not ridiculed.

Richie
 If its wool and you are concerned at all about colour fastness then i would use something like Prochem prespray gold, or maybe M Power and rinse with an acidic rinse.

[wynne jones]

Susan

I get customers who say, can you just give my orange moroccan rug a going over (ew er missus) but you should know better!

[Paul Redden Countryfresh]

Just remember what you learned on your training course(s)

glad ive never done any if there so good you cant rembemer how to do a simple thing as a rug

But i saw you at c/c day out?

[richie bloom]

 cheers james just worried as its a really old rug, just really wanted to no the best chemical to use thats all.. cheers again

[wynne jones]

cheers james just worried as its a really old rug, just really wanted to no the best chemical to use thats all.. cheers again

Why don't you put a picture up before you have a go at it. All James knows is it's wool and now you are saying it's really old.

[colin fitch]

Pictures please.

colin

[Susan Dean (1stclean)]

Susan

What a stupid thing to say, you must have nothing left to learn to make such a comment.

Whatever the merits of taking these courses, it demonstrates that the person taking them is keen to learn the correct methods and skills needed to build a professional and successful  business. some rugs are very prone to dye bleed and care should be taken when deciding what chemicals to use, we are working on peoples possessions sometimes they are irreplaceable and or very valuable, carpets in customers homes are one of the single biggest investments, gaining a little knowledge on working on them rather than learning from mistakes made in customers home is surely prudent, and that behaviour should be applauded, not ridiculed.

Richie
 If its wool and you are concerned at all about colour fastness then i would use something like Prochem prespray gold, or maybe M Power and rinse with an acidic rinse.

hang on you lot bang on and on and on how good these corses are and how so important there are !!!!!

well if he just done a corse and as to ask how to do it here then fat load of good his corse was
surly whlie sitting in the class room tips should of been given then or may buy opening  his lips there he would of had 1 on 1 training i mean thats what your paying for right ??

 or sorry because hes got a piese of paper that some old school fat cat as mend bended him into aland of bull and confussed the life out of him hes a top pro thats unsure on how to clean something  these corses sound great can i do a few please 

sorry that maybe a bit harsh and i was meaning to belittle him but what the hells is getting tought on these corses ? ive just had a guy out with julian for 4 weeks and belive me what he was thought about the job who knows but three days turned into a month because he couldnt belive how much he didnt know yet he had the paper saying he was the pro and julian didnt mad eh ??

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Just goes to show that you can't beat experience and a bit of go get it done, training courses tell you the how's and why's, it's all okay when it goes okay it's when it doesn't that's when you go back to the training manual.

Shaun

[wynne jones]

How hard is it to take a picture?

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Don't ask me I'm crap at photos!

Shaun

[neil 47]

ive just cleaned a 100% wool rug and will post the photos when its completely dry.
 
And im with Susan on this one

what do u clean it with  Answer :  1)a wool recommend solution Oh its still dirty  2) a higher ph cleaner oh no still dirty 3) right we arnt messing now a bit of power burst , no still dirty what now . well i know what id do question is do you

[Joe W Brown]

Re the last post -

If you use powerburst, shockwave or any other high ph chemical remember to do an acidic rinse.

[james roffey]

Attending a course on carpet cleaning before becoming a "carpet cleaner" is surely better than not bothering, no one has said that attending these courses will mean that you have nothing left to learn that's clearly ridiculous. But it does show that the person at least recognises that it would be better to have a little understanding of his chosen profession, the course teaches the very basics, just because someone was unsure of what to do even though they had attended the extensive all encompassing "TWO DAY COURSE" does not invalidate the merits of taking the course in the first place. What wrong with wanting to learn, so he forgot something i would have thought Susan would have been the last person to have been critical of not absorbing information.

[wynne jones]

I think the main problem here is that most rugs, wool rugs included, you can treat like carpet. Use a woolsafe prespray and HWE. If this has only ever been your experience then you are bound to wonder what all the fuss is about.

On the other hand, unfortunately there are many, many rugs that will bite you in the ass if you HWE them. Some rugs will bleed if you put tap water on them let alone pre-spray gold. And you can test a colour one end and it's fine and at the other it heamerages colour because it's another batch or there are pet issues.

Ignorance is bliss until you fk up and it might be someones heirloom you've trashed

[neil 47]

Re the last post -

If you use powerburst, shockwave or any other high ph chemical remember to do an acidic rinse.

Joe why?