There is a fungus among us… …and there is nothing “fun” about it. One of the worst conditions that can befall a rug is DRY ROT. Mold, mildew, and dry rot are various types and stages of particular fungi. Where you can sometimes kill and remove the first two groups without much evidence left behind [...]
Rugs with material on the back.
Most professional rug cleaners should know this, but in case you don’t… … wool rugs with material on the back like this one, are called TUFTED rugs: Some have a loosely attached material like the above one from China, and some have material that is more firmly in place like this one from India: I [...]
Rug Topics for CFI Members.
I just had the privilege of speaking to a group of CFI members up in the Inland Empire. (That is the Carpet & Fabricare Institute, which is a professional trade association that covers cleaning and restoration professionals throughout California, Nevada, and Arizona.) The topic was… I know you’re shocked… RUGS! =) After several hours of [...]
Rugs and Floods. What to do.
With the number of home floods escalating due to severe weather, a number of rugs will be exposed to flood water. The longer a rug remains wet the more likely it is to have dye migration that is not correctible. Rugs that are not washed properly, and not dried thoroughly, can end up with mildew [...]
Why some rug dyes bleed.
There are a variety of reasons a rug might “bleed” on you. Let’s go through different scenarios for a wool rug like this one, where the red dyes have migrated into the neighboring off-white areas: What could create this type of dye migration? Several things. FUGITIVE DYES – if the red is shown to not [...]