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What is the preferred method for cleaning wool rugs? Buffer or U-Mate?
Also a dog urinated on this particular rug, Owner tells me there is no stain to speak of but the odor is bad.
Ideally you should extract with cold water (or better yet use a dunk bath method if able). Personally, I treat them like carpet and extract only when extremely dirty or if spots dictate so (i.e. pet spots). If I extract, I will often follow with the buffer to clean/dry it some more. Vacuuming is key with wool rugs as they hold a lot of dirt. Good example of this is vacuum a dirty one on hardwood. Then, flip it over and vacuum the back side. Pull the rug up and see the dirt on the floor that was vibrated out of the wool fibers. Then revacuum rug (and floor).
Also take note to the construction of the rug. Is it a machine made wool rug, a hand knotted rug or a gun tufted wool rug? There are many variables involved to the outcome of cleaning rugs. As Dave said an immersion wash is best for urine contaminated rugs if the rug will tollerate it. If you can pinpoint the exact location of the contamination then you can treat, flush and extract with upholstery mate. This is more difficult with a tufted rug which you can tell by the back of the rug which has a cloth glued to it with latex. Reason being is that the urine has more areas to stay and hide and being unaffected by your cleaning efforts, especially the latex backing.
Best Wishes,
Ed H.If you do a dunk method, which can be more effective, do not hang to dry.
This would surely cause color to bleed onto the fringe.I made this mistake on a 15 X 20. It took me 2 1/2 weeks to re-color the fringe white.
Don’t be too fearful of area rugs. I have only had 2 rugs in 8 years that bled any color.
I would like to find a good color stabilizer to add to the bath, if anyone knows of one.
I have a wool rug to do that has some pet urine in it. I tested our pet enzyme on it to find it does bleed. Can I use the “dye set” product from our dye repair kit to set the dye prior to cleaning? If so, how heavy does it need to be sprayed on to be effective?
Brian,
I would call HB directly, and ask them.
I know the professional rug plants use a dye stabilizer in the bath.
I haven’t seen any stabilizers advertised in the trade magazines, so I don’t know where to find them.If all else fails, I guess you could do an internet search for them.
Good Luck
I treated a small area of the rug with our dye set product and it seemed to help. Still a slight amount of bleeding but I didn’t let it fully dry. The customer didn’t want to pay the additional $50 I quoted to dye set the entire rug so I halted the operation.
did it bleed or crock?
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