[John Gregory]

picked these rugs up off a customer today .I don't come across many rugs, the one's I do either come from B and Q , or Ikea , All I know is they where bought in Iran about 15 years ago , they are very dirty , and the customer thinks they are worth a couple of quid .

Question 1  are they worth anything
Question 2 Are they up to a Dave special   ie   hose pipe

Thanks    John

[Mike Osbourne]

John

pic of the back close up more useful. Presume you know they are wool?

[*paul_moss]

John I wouldnt do a Dave special myself on these.
Check fibre they could be wool or even have a silk look to them in the picture.
Either way, vacc the arse off them with an upholstery vac tool ( soft brush) then prespray with m/s aggitate with soft brush and extract with low moisture  hand tool CFR etc ( would not use a fllod jet hand tool on these) treat fringes as you normaly would.

£50 - £75 a rug 

[liahona]

John, do they have a leather or synthetic leather "strap" stitched on the outer edge length ways?  If so I would take them off before cleaning as of course you are going to clean both sides.

You can then stitch them back on or in all of my cases I leave them off.

Anyway, these rugs are perfect to saturate or immerse so by all means clean them this way.  It will be a good experience for you as you shouldnt have any problems at all.

As for value, it depends on too many things.  If none of the "things" are attributed to these textiles then they arent worth anything, save what you can get for them.

Best, Dave.

P.S.  Sometimes these rugs have silk in them but dont worry as silk wet cleans the same as the wool.  

P.P.S.  Just saw Pauls post, dont be scared, soak the thing.

Wool and silk both wet clean very well, if you use an injection type cleaning you run the risk of fibre damage to the silk yarns.

Again, these are ideal for your first, if it is your first, saturation clean

[lands]

Bugger, he got there before me. They look a little like isfahans Dave if not at least persian and no disrecpect Paul but £50-75 seems way too low and I know for sure that Dave will agree with that. Definite saturation jobbies.

John

I have some of the solution that Dave uses for scrubbing if you want a bit. I'll post it up.

Pete

[Mike Osbourne]

Sorry but,

How do you know they are not cheapo copies, can you tell that the fringe isn't just sewn on and it's not knotted?

[derek west]

can we have a picture of the backing? close up

[Mike Osbourne]

jst seen the left one bottom right fringe.

[John Gregory]

here you go a pic of the backs  

Thanks  john

[John Gregory]

try again

[lands]

John Kelly does a rubber brush for matted fringes. Suggest you get one (if they are not too bad)

Pete

[Dave_Lee]

John,
Thats the tops! They have been cleaned before note the blue run into the light areas and the fringe.
Dave.

[John Gregory]

Dave  its the back  .  clad you noticed the colour run on the fringe . me bum is starting to clench a bit .

John 

Ps .  I only quoted £100 for the 2

[gwrightson]

I cleaned 3 similar last week, and having read so much about Dave,s methods I was eager to give them a go     must admit I was apprehensive, but after chatting to JK , his reasurences gave me the confidence .
The final results were great , will not think twice again when cleaning this type of rug.


what i did find amazing was the amount of dirty water , i couldnt believe it

geoff

[davep]

I want to try this too, whats the best solution to scrub with?

[gwrightson]

I used nemesis, soaked the rugs in the solution, aggited with cimex for around 5 mins and left for another 10 mins to dwell . flushed out with hose pipe then speed dried outside "  please no comments regarding fading because of drying outside  " 

what I did find handy was one of those blow up paddling pools great for soaking the rugs in 

geoff

[davep]

Did you go over it with you wand after hosing it down?

[liahona]

davep.  there are various chemicals you can use or solutions as it would appear chemicals are being called these days.

Whatever you would use to clean wool with will be fine.  Boat loads if you need to as because the chemical will be 100% rinsed out it doesnt matter.

John Kelly sent me some pink stuff when I was waiting for my stuff to arrive and it worked fine, I just cant remember what it was called.

Again, as long as it is suitable for wool then it doesnt matter.

The proper stuff of which there are many are exceptionally high foaming, I would imagine that what you use to clean wool carpets as is the pink stuff is anything but high foaming.

Best, Dave.

P.S.  It is the water rinse that is as important as the cleaning solution.

The drying of course is very important but for now we are talking about cleaning.

[John Kelly]

Dave, that pink stuff was Nemesis degreaser which is basically a colloid with added Biosolve. Didn't know you were going to use it on rugs
Dave I think the colloidal cleaner you use is exceptionally high foaming because of the dilution you use it at. Colloidals dilute down readily to 100-150 to 1 used in higher concentrations they will produce a lot of foam which in this situation is probably beneficial. And it looks good.

[liahona]

John, I think the stuff was called liquid woolsafe or liquid woolcare, something like that.

 The degreaser stuff was for something quite different, which worked superbly.

Not sure if I would use it on rugs or not, not I am sure.

Best, Dave.