Hi Guys
I love rug cleaning, the problem is too many cleaners tend to fanny about with them which is un' necessary and a lot more are frightened away by fibre content.
For instance I cleaned a smallish dark red Turkish rug yesterday on site,I took it out into the garden placed it on Tarpaulin gave it a good vacuum, sprayed Solutions No4, brushed in with Sebo, then a light spray and extract, the rug was dry before I left and I charged £95.00. for less than an hours work. Lovely result, very happy client
I do tend to clean more on site than take away, if I do remove them the charge will be much higher which is all expained to the customer, most will then have it cleaned at home.
If your customer has spent several hundred or even thousands pounds on a rug then they will be wary if you clean them for £25.00.
It's a specialist clean chaps and should be charged as such.
ken if your taking your to Johnsons then I may have cleaned yours for you depending on where you are of course
Out of interest the most expensive rug I cleaned was in a mansion house,it was a very important item depicting a battle scene, well over a 120 yrs old,full wool content and was about 25ft by 18ft maybe bigger.Because it was antique and not replaceble it's insurance value was
£55,000
. Obviously it had some wear and apart from the usual houskeeping cleans no one was allowed to clean or treat it.
As you can imagine they were very wary of cleaning but after doing a test clean they were convinced and away I went, fantastic result considering it had never been cleaned professionaly and £350.00 better off.
Bring your rugs to me chaps I'll clean for you
Seriously if you require any advice or are unsure whether to clean or not send me PM and I'll see if I can help
Trevor
