Anybody know what this is?
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Topic: Anybody know what this is?
Posted By: CCandmore
Subject: Anybody know what this is?
Date 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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Posted By: cmaster
Date Posted: 24/August/2007 at 5:51pm
Cheap latex backing. The smell will never completely go away  ------------- 
The STD Meter |
Posted By: LilNiteRidrhood
Date 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. |
Posted By: MR. STEAMER
Date 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 ------------- www.mr-steamer.com |
Posted By: CCandmore
Date Posted: 25/August/2007 at 8:56am
| Guys, thanks for the help. I unrolled it, vacuumed, and wrapped with paper to roll up this morning. |
Posted By: doug
Date 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 ------------- Just My opinion |
Posted By: checkmate
Date Posted: 13/September/2007 at 7:01pm
| Maybe there was a body rolled up in it. |