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I cleaned a wool carpet back in the summer. We have already been back twice because of the wine spills coming from their parties. Initially we used the u mate to pull the stain out. When we did tyhe carpet fuzzed. One side of the hair released and is standing straight up. Since, we have found out that the buffer will take out the wine stain without the u mate. so no more problems. The couple will be back here next summer and they would like us to do something about the fuzzy places in their carpet. Any ideas besides cutting the hair with scissors?
Thanks,
Jamie
I believe that is about all you can do, although you obviously want to proceed with extreme caution as I’m betting it is looped berber and a little fuzz is better than one of the loop runs coming unraveled. They do make scissors made specifically for cutting carpet called duck billed shears. Good item to have. If you are going to the national conference in Vegas, they are having a carpet repair breakout session that may help with this matter too depending on what they plan on addressing.
In general my experience with wool carpet is that it fuzzes no matter what you do to it. I hate cleaning it as it is expensive carpet, yet often doesn’t seem to last very long (although I’ve cleaned 40 yr old wool carpet that looked 5 yrs old at most).
This might be a dumb question but I want to make sure before I do it. Are there any problems putting protectant on wool oriental rugs?
No there isn’t, and it is actually highly recommended as wool doesn’t naturally repel stains as well as nylon. We don’t include protectant in our price for carpet, but we do for area rugs. The “experts” recommend using Teflon protectant for area rugs. I don’t know if I agree with them as most Teflon protectants (like ours) require you to add water to them and leaving wool too wet is not a good idea as bleading or shrinkage could occur. Spray away my good man.
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