Oriental Rug Cleaning Versus Carpet Cleaning – What’s The Difference?

SW Florida’s Choice For Oriental Rug Cleaning And Repairs

Last week a customer contacted us to inspect and possibly repair a 90+-year-old Persian Tabriz. What we saw when the rug came to our shop was horrific. This client had allowed a local dry cleaning company to clean her antique wool area rug and what they did to it was an absolute crime.

The first mistake they made was to use an improper cleaning solution and rogue technique that ran the colors of the rug. They then proceeded to use a carpet cleaning wand, similar to the one used by companies such as Number One Carpet Cleaning, to extract the water and literally destroy her rare Tabriz by ripping the fringe from the rug!

What could she have done to prevent this from happening? ASK QUESTIONS before you trust your area rug to just anyone.

WHAT QUESTIONS? First… ask HOW they clean Rugs. It must be FULL Immersion cleaning!

ASK what they clean with! It MUST be a Glycerin-based rug solution that is adjusted for the dye type of your rug. The cleaning solution must be Wool Safe approved.

Ask how do they get the solution out of the rug. Make sure they use a full submersion rinse, NOT extract it with vacuum or carpet cleaning equipment.

Ask do they clean wall-to-wall carpets also. “Tell them you have a few rooms of wall to wall that needs to be cleaned. If they say they can clean it…. FIND a different company!! The truth is that there are quite a few carpet cleaners that present themselves as Oriental Rug Cleaning experts. You must ASK questions to weed these off your list!

ASK them if you can come to their location and visit their rug cleaning plant.

TELL them you’ve always wanted to see how area rugs are cleaned. If the company balks at your questions or doesn’t have a full-service rug cleaning plant, Find a different company!

A company that specializes in Oriental rug cleaning and repair will gladly answer all your questions and will be happy to meet you in person and provide you with a tour of their facilities. Make sure you ask questions, take time meet the people who will actually be doing the work on your rugs.

Be careful as most dry cleaners and carpet cleaning companies do not own a rug cleaning plant and either send the area rugs out to a high production mechanical rug cleaning plant or to a local carpet cleaning company who likely cleans the rug in their parking lot.

Feel free to call us at Oriental Rug Salon at any time. We welcome your questions and YES, you are invited to visit our rug cleaning plant anytime.

What to look for in a quality rug cleaning plant. Do they clean area rugs by hand or are they cleaned in a parking lot or farmed out to a local carpet cleaning company? Is the company certified by the Carpet & Rug Institute (CRI) and/or the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification

Do they clean area rugs by hand or are they cleaned in a parking lot or farmed out to a local carpet cleaning company? Is the company certified by the Carpet & Rug Institute (CRI) and/or the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC). Are they A+ certified by the Better Business Bureau and Angie’s List. Is Oriental rug cleaning all they do? Are the rugs cleaned by hand or batch washing machines?

Oriental Rug Salon is a full-service Oriental, wool and silk area rug cleaning company servicing clients worldwide. We are the “cleaner of choice” to many rug collectors, insurance companies, flooring retailers, interior designers and clients who absolutely love their area rugs.

Oriental Rug Salon is certified by the IICRC and the CRI AND we are A+ rated by the Better Business Bureau and Angie’s List. Our rug cleaning professionals are fully certified and experienced and all cleaning efforts are overseen by our in-house rug master.

For more information about Oriental Rug Salon please visit us online at www.OrientalRugSalon.com or call us anytime at 239-424-8171.

Your beautiful area rugs, with the proper care, will last a lifetime. Oriental Rug Salon only does one thing and that “thing” is the cleaning, restoration, and preservation of beautiful textiles.

PS. We were able to properly re-clean, restore torn fringe and fix the dye bleeds in the customer’s wool area rug.

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