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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: mjm on March 11, 2020, 09:59:04 pm

Title: Rug drying
Post by: mjm on March 11, 2020, 09:59:04 pm

I have 12 rugs to clean some are small some about 12  ftby 12ft if I do a dye bleed test on them can I drape them over chairs and leave them in the same room with speed dryers because a few years ago i went on on course the said  dont do it dye bleed but I hear of  people converting garages and taking rugs to there houses and having 30 to 40 hanging vertically


Basically can I dry them over chairs  as I say theres 12 maybe 14  or 20   she hasn't decided yet she will probably start pulling them out as I arrive more and more she has more in the loft I  think 

Title: Re: Rug drying
Post by: john martin on March 11, 2020, 10:16:46 pm

sounds like a handfull  , hopefully she hasnt got fussy floors so you might be able to lay a few out over a tiled hallway or what ever . Other than that ... over chairs , stair rails. anywhere you can i suppose .

Title: Re: Rug drying
Post by: mjm on March 11, 2020, 10:27:55 pm

Thank you for your help john  👍😊

Title: Re: Rug drying
Post by: Kinver_Clean on March 12, 2020, 10:39:49 am

Be careful that whatever you hang them on is straight.
I had a customer, contrary to instructions, hang a rug on a washing line.
It looked like a Chinese Pagoda with two large peaks at each side.

Title: Re: Rug drying
Post by: Elfyn on March 13, 2020, 08:10:08 am

Yes. Be very carefull what you drape rugs over to to dry them. If they dry unevenly they will go out of shape, have rucks in the middle and/or have corners that fold up. They just won't sid on the floor properly.

Title: Re: Rug drying
Post by: Paul Clapham on March 13, 2020, 04:02:07 pm

Take them to a professional who has a unit set up to clean them...…. and just put a % mark up on them.

Title: Re: Rug drying
Post by: Dean Haywood on March 13, 2020, 05:25:27 pm

As said above, taker them to someone who has a rug cleaning set up. trying to dry rugs incorrectly will potentially cause you many issues..