This morning we went and picked up a hand made rug that had a bunch of Bar-B-Q sauce spilt on it last Friday night. We got the rug in and vacuumed it thoroughly and then one of my employees used Releasit - DS on it. The Bar-B-Q sauce was gone immediately, but we still had the Bar-B-Q odor. So we got out our Encap-Spot and sprayed it on the rug. Stain and odor gone. I was totally amazed. Guess I should not have been but I was. The only problem is we told the customer that it might take us a while and so we scheduled to deliver her rug next week and clean the carpet in her house at the same time. She wanted it done sooner but it has only been an hour and a half since we left her house. I feel like if I call her now and tell her the stain is gone and we could clean the carpet tomorrow that she would think it was so easy that I should not have to charge her $2.00 per s.f. on the rug. Anyway good problems to have. BTW the rug is predominantly red and has been cleaned by another cleaner before and the colors did run slightly when they cleaned it. The Releasit, however, did not make the colors run and got it super clean in very little time.

Kevin Pearson

What do you use to scrub throw rugs with?

Brian

Brian,

It depends we use the Cimex for about fifty percent of the rugs we clean and then some I use my Butler and some we send to a rug plant in East Texas. The guy in East Texas is a guy I used to work for. I worked there 9 years and so he gives me an extremely good deal.

Kevin Pearson

one of my accounts has several with costs when new 2 years ago from $5k-$20k. they were asking other day about cleaning them, I'm not sure I want to be responsable. No cleaning plants around here that I know of.

Brian

Brian,

Take the job and charge alot. Then go back to your place and vacuum the rugs on top and on the back. The vacuuming on the back being the most important. When you vacuum on the back with a vac that has a beater bar then all the dirt will vibrate out the face yarns and onto the concrete below. (Make sure you are on clean concrete) Once all the dry soil is removed, then test the colors on the rug. Do this by putting some Releasit a white terry cloth towel and then place the towel flat on the rug and cover all the different colors. The towel does not have to be that wet, just damp. Then get a 2*4 and place it on top of the towel and let it sit for 24 hours. If you lift the towel and there is no dye transfer then clean the rug with releasit and a cimex. Then vacuum it when it is dried, clean the fringe and charge $2.00 per s.f. and a pick up and delivery fee of $50.00 each way. I hope this helps.

BTW clean the fringe with fringe bleach by master blend. If the fringe is not supposed to be white then this product will also work because it is a slow bleaching process. Peroxide will also work but it is real slow. Hope this helps.

Kevin Pearson