Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Matt Lindus on September 07, 2010, 08:00:24 pm
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We cleaned a 100% wool carpet today and used too much hot water. The whole carpet shrunk about 1ft all around the room.
The customer was not at home so we lifted the carpet out into the garden and tried to stretch it back using a garden rake which we broke.
The carpet was all rippled and badly distorted when we fitted it back.
Any advise.
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so we lifted the carpet out into the garden and tried to stretch it back using a garden rake which we broke
Joking right ?
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No Mark, the rake broke when we put strain on it!
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You lifted a whole wet carpet outside? yeah right. even if it was 12x12 it would weigh 200 plus kg
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Where's the smilie for rolling around, peeing myself, sides splitting ;D
Sorry mate but......
All this is missing is....the rake sprung up smashing my nose spraying said carpet with 2 pints of 'O Pos'
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;D ;D ;D
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Matt are you sure it wasnt a rug to start with?
Anyway what ever chemicals your using pass some my way will ya ;D
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:o ;D ::)
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QUESTION IF WOOL SHRINKS THIS MUCH WHY DONT SHEEP GET SMALLER WHEN IT RAINS ???
RIGHT OFF TO BED
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Did it float out into the garden, and came back in with the tide ;D
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QUESTION IF WOOL SHRINKS THIS MUCH WHY DONT SHEEP GET SMALLER WHEN IT RAINS ???
They do Steve, that's what cotton wool is made of; pre-shrunk sheep that've got wet in the rain. ;)
To the Original Poster, if it's shrunk a foot, you've had it in a garden, and broke the customer's rake, I suspect the only advice people can offer is to (a) leave a stash of cash for the customer and a 'sooooryyyy' note, or (b) leave the country quickly.
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Matt, you made a schoolboy error!
What you should have done is left the carpet in situ. Then you should have drilled holes all along one of the outside walls of the room, threaded rope through it and used your van to power stretch the carpet back onto the grippers.
Simple really :)
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Matt, you made a schoolboy error!
What you should have done is left the carpet in situ. Then you should have drilled holes all along one of the outside walls of the room, threaded rope through it and used your van to power stretch the carpet back onto the grippers.
Simple really :)
;D ;D welcome back jim
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Fancy using a garden rake. What were you thinking of. Far too femma. Everyone knows a garden fork is the tool to use. You push it through the carpet at an angle then lever it in the direction you want it to stretch.
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You are in big touble if all said is true. If I was the cutomer I would want refund for the damaged on the carpet
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You are in big touble if all said is true. If I was the cutomer I would want refund for the damaged on the carpet
"if all said is true"....... it's gonna be more than a refund for damages :)
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Just get some crayons and draw a new carpet onto the floor ???
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Carpets shrunk to this degree can be completely restored to normal size by applying Cheshire Cheese to the affected areas.
Broken garden rakes can be repaired by spraying white vingar onto a cucumber, agitating each end of the broken rake with a kettle, then pushing the two bits back together, in full sight of the cucumber, which must be facing north westerly. For best results, the cucumber should be wearing a tutu.
Try it, it works.
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pmslllllllllllllllllllll ....... ur all bloody nutters ;D
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Carpets shrunk to this degree can be completely restored to normal size by applying Cheshire Cheese to the affected areas.
Broken garden rakes can be repaired by spraying white vingar onto a cucumber, agitating each end of the broken rake with a kettle, then pushing the two bits back together, in full sight of the cucumber, which must be facing north westerly. For best results, the cucumber should be wearing a tutu.
Try it, it works.
OK LETS GET SERIOUS ..............everyone knows you repair broken rakes with sticky back paper :D
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[[coffs ]]
have you thought about telling your cuzzie that youve done there rug clean, unfortunatley you stretched it slightly?
as for the rake just bin it and plead the third amendment
i mean seriously did the carpet clean up well????????? yeah???
whats all the fuss about :D
marc
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Or cover the floor in a layer of Evo stick,then pop down the local hair dressers and ask for some hair,sprinkle liberally over the glue,job done,if the hair is a different colour to the original carpet,grab some hair dye !!
Don`t sniff too much Evo though
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What you should have done is left the carpet in situ. Then you should have drilled holes all along one of the outside walls of the room, threaded rope through it and used your van to power stretch the carpet back onto the grippers.
NO. Find a local builder.
Fit carpet to two of the walls, then get the builder to bring the walls in on the other 2 sides. Simples ;D
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This is soooooo entertaining, I've turned off the telly ;D ;D ;D
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Easy this, just buy two lengths of another carpet one for the length, one for the width, each as long as the room walls and as wide as the shrinkage, sew em up, jobs a good un!
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Hardly helpfull considering the situation we are in.
Luckly we found some yoghurt in her fridge, which we shared with a wooden spoon (teaspoons were in dishwasher).
Carpets still ruined though and shes not happy.
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If you had used vanish instead of all those new fangled chemicals this would never have happened.
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We cleaned a 100% wool carpet today and used too much hot water. The whole carpet shrunk about 1ft all around the room.
The customer was not at home so we lifted the carpet out into the garden and tried to stretch it back using a garden rake which we broke.
The carpet was all rippled and badly distorted when we fitted it back.
Any advise.
WTF
Roll yourself up in the carpet and hide...
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Lucky you had 'treatment risks' insurance ;D
Jim
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It sounds like a funny anecdote, but poor you...It's a pity you broke the garden rake. :o