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CCandmore 
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 Topic: Anybody know what this is?Posted: 24/August/2007 at 3:49pm |
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Anybody know what this is?
A customer wants to know if the smell will come out of a large wool area rug that they bought at auction. It had a lot of fine white powder/dust and smelled like a room full of tires. I gave them a price and told them I couldn't guarantee the smell would go away. I hung it up outside and blew most of the white dust out with compressed air. Vacuum and steam clean - most of the smell has gone. I'm going to give it back and tell them to continue vacuuming both sides. Before I do, any ideas what this white dust and smell might be? Any cleaning suggestions if I run into this again? Thanks for the help. |
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cmaster
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Posted: 24/August/2007 at 5:51pm |
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Cheap latex backing. The smell will never completely go away
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LilNiteRidrhood
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Posted: 24/August/2007 at 7:59pm |
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VERY IMPORTANT --sometimes rolling up the carpet causes the odour to be worse.
try not to let the backing touch the face fibers. |
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MR. STEAMER
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Posted: 24/August/2007 at 9:05pm |
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It's best to wrap your area rugs in paper...because of what Lee said
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CCandmore
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Posted: 25/August/2007 at 8:56am |
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Guys, thanks for the help. I unrolled it, vacuumed, and wrapped with paper to roll up this morning.
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Posted: 25/August/2007 at 2:45pm |
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just make sure you don't use news print unless it is virgin paper very cheap to purchase roll ends
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Posted: 13/September/2007 at 7:01pm |
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Maybe there was a body rolled up in it.
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