Automated Oriental Rug Washing VS Authentic Hand-Washing

Rug Washing Machine – Not A Replacement For Genuine Hand Washing

The aim of any professional rug cleaning specialist must always be to achieve the best possible results for their client using the safest methods available.

A good example would be a challenge which often presents itself; that being the modern Tabriz rug tainted with animal urine. These popular rugs commonly contain red dyes that will freely bleed during washing (even with a low pH solution) however a thorough soak is required to achieve full decontamination.

Here we have a problem which requires not only skill, experience, and thinking outside the box to solve, but also a good measure of humility and compromise. It must sometimes be accepted that the urine cannot be fully removed in the first wash and must be repeated using multiple quick washes, quick dry repetitions to mitigate the risk of dye bleed. This is what sets professional rug cleaners such as Oriental Rug Salon apart from the ‘one method suits all’ automated “rug washing” services.

Professional Rug Cleaning – Persian Rug Cleaning

Professionalism in any industry isn’t defined just by how many certifications or years of experience an individual or company has accrued. What’s important is an eagerness by the craftsmen involved, to achieve the task at hand with not only pride but also restraint. Too often we’ve seen consumers turn their cherished wool or silk area rugs over to a carpet cleaning company or an automated rug cleaning plant only to receive their rugs in worse condition than they were prior to “cleaning.

Automated rug cleaning plants clean all area rugs the same. Large automated tubs can hold a dozen rugs at a time. These plants simply place a mixture of rugs in a large washtub where they are tumbled for thirty minutes in a mixture of water and cleaning solution. The rugs are then rinsed and dried and prepared for delivery.

Have you ever asked yourself what’s in it for you if you let an automated plant to batch clean your area rugs with others? The answer is NOTHING! But you know what, everything’s in it for these high production rug washers. These plants can wash a dozen or more rugs at a time with the simple punch of a button; no experience required. Productivity is through the roof!

Unlike high production rug cleaning plants (we feel automated equipment is best left to car washes) the experienced technicians at Oriental Rug Salon wash area rugs by hand, one at a time. From the very moment our client’s area rug enters our cleaning facility to the moment it is returned, every step of the process is monitored by a certified experienced rug cleaning professional.

We do not batch wash client’s area rugs in return for a larger profit like the automated rug cleaning plants do. Can you imagine your urine free area rug being washed in the same tank as someone’s who has? Yuck!

What happens if your area rug, or that of someone else’s, starts to bleed in the automated bath while the “technician” is on his lunch break?

When trusting your area rug to Oriental Rug Salon, you can rest assured that your valuable area rug is in the capable hands of a professional, from start to finish. If your rug starts to bleed, we have procedures in place that can immediately address the problem.

Another problem we’re seeing in the professional rug washers industry is carpet cleaning companies ruining valuable client Persian rugs because they simply don’t know what they’re doing. You can not effectively clean a wool or silk area rug in a client home. The professional washing the area rug must be dedicated to his or her craft and must be experienced. More often than not, a carpet cleaning technician is a “kid on commission” and will say they can clean a find Persian, wool or silk area rug, even if they have no idea what they’re doing.

Oriental Rug Salon is a full-service Oriental, wool and silk area rug cleaning and repair facility serving all of Naples, Fort Myers, Punta Gorda, Port Charlotte and every city in between.

Oriental Rug Salon is a Certified Partner with the prestigious Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC) and the international Carpet & Rug Institute (CRI). In addition, we are A+ rated with the Better Business Bureau and a four-year-in-a-row winner of Angie’s List coveted Super Service Award.

For more information on our hand-washing wool and silk area rug cleaning process please visit Oriental Rug Salon online at www.OrientalRugSalon.com or visit us anytime at 239-424-8171. In addition to free pick-up and delivery of most area rugs throughout Lee, Collier and Charlotte County, we receive area rugs from around the world.

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