August 03, 2008.
Starting out cleaning loose rugs.
When you want to get into rug cleaning, you use whatever you have on hand.
Instead of buying hundreds or thousands of dollars of new equipment,
you work with the equipment you already have.
You have to start someplace.
Lay the rugs out on your patio or in your garage to begin with.
One friend uses the floor in an unused room in his house.
I set up my rug plant in my single car garage.
Here's an example of a friend starting out cleaning rugs with what location and equipment he has.
An electric sprayer, and an Orbital Pad cleaning machine.
First the rug is vacuumed face up, then turned over, and the vacuum run over the back to knock dust and dirt out.
Then turned face up and vacuumed again.
You can see the standard household vacuum cleaner behind him.
Then in this case, the rug is sprayed with the detergent, instead of being immersed, because it was only lightly soiled.
Followed by running the Orbital Pad Stair machine on it.
He is using a cotton and synthetic Tuway pad which had been dampened with tap water, and sprayed with the detergent prior to running it over the rug.
These 2 other rugs have already been cleaned with this process, and are drying in the sun.
Notice the ladders and pole setup for hanging the rugs.
The pole is a 10 foot galvanized steel fence pole.
Hanging a Belgian wool rug on the pole. These are very limber.
Very simple, easy to locate anywhere with this setup.
He also has a 4 inch plastic ABS pipe that goes over the steel pole for the other rugs,
in order to not make a fold as it dries over the pole.
It is much easier to comb the fringe while hanging.