Area rugs

I tell people who ask me about area rugs is that they should always send out to a cleaning plant.  It's generally better and safer.

If I had new techs working for me and an area rug had to be done, I would choose for safety reasons (The Pad Mans system).

we clean them in the home as well.

For those of you who are cleaning in your customer's house you must mean  throe rugs 3 X5 2 X 4 etc certainly not 8 X 10 or 9 X 12 wool rugs not in their house.  When we are contacted regarding loose rugs they are usually on hardwood.  We use mats to clean upholstery on hardwood so we certainly would not clean a rug on hardwood.  We shoulod respect for our clients home.  We take them to our shop where we charge up to a $1.25 per sq. ft. to clean them.  Some people donot want them removed so we will clean them in another area off the floor.   You people must be clean olifin rugs from walmart if you are cleaning on location regardless of system.  How do you do an 8 foot oval both sides on location?

Where are you guys finding all these so called bleeders.  Are you sure they are not crocking?  I still can't believe you would clean on someone's hardwood floors.  My clients would fire us on the spot if we didn't take them out regardless of what system.  Hang them outside to dry thats real professional.  You should get at least $2.00 per sq ft for that expertise. Would you hang it on the closeline or over the stair rail to the front door? Do you clean both sides of the oval on the hardwood to?  Oh I forgot you would use Host powder. 

not every one does hwe doug. our process uses less water. in 14 years i've never damaged anything. and if you were listening i use host on bleeders. yes bleeders doug everyone here knows the difference between bleeding and crocking. and yes doug some of my clients hang their rugs out to dry. thats up to them, if your doing both sides of a rug your not going to put it back down on the floor, use your head man. bottom line you do what your client wants, not what you prefer.

I don't think anyone here is stupid....of course your going to warn the customer about the hardwood underneath...some customers don't care about the hardwood.

You warn because you don't want to have to pay for it later.

Trust me you will. 

I know a lot of customers don't like to have their rugs taken out...it's an inconvenience for them.

Greg you do what ever makes your customers happy, and I'm sure your competent enough to let them know if there are any dangers.

If you wash with cold water the colors will not run.(1 free trick)

I think not....if you took the cec in area rug cleaning you would have seen the river washing technique...which promotes the use of cold water ...the cold water locking in the colors....

I'm sure I said something in my post that everyone understands...I don't have to fool people with big words and the Ph scale..thats grade 9 chemistry son...you are impressing no one