Can My Oriental Rug Be Cleaned In My House?
May 22, 2015 08:04:21pm
Keeping your area rug clean is important to your home’s overall aesthetic and to your rug’s appearance, but even more importantly, to the rug’s material and makeup. Dust and dirt get tracked into your rug’s pile, and if allowed to accumulate and settle, can severely damage its fibers. Keeping your rug clean is crucial to maintaining it, but it’s just as important to clean your rug correctly as it is to clean it at all.
Rug Cleaning Methods
When the time comes to have your Persian or Oriental rug cleaned, you need to choose the rug cleaning process that is right for you and best for your rug. For the optimal results and the highest level of care for your rug, the choice is simple: schedule a cleaning appointment with the best professional rug cleaning company and let the specialists design a customized cleaning regimen for your rug.
There are alternative cleaning methods that are cheaper, quicker, and therefore tempting to consider when your Oriental rug is in need of cleaning. For example, it is tempting to want to clean your rug as a do-it-yourself project. It’s easy enough to gather a few tools, pick up a gallon of cleaning solution at the hardware store, and go to work on your rug right there on the floor. Unfortunately, a D-I-Y project like this will end in disaster, and the finer your Oriental rug, the more damage it will sustain. These cleaning solutions often make claims that most likely will not come to pass. For example, the label may claim that it will rid your rug of pet odor, when in reality it will simply mask the odor with perfumes and chemicals. The cleaning solution will not have been customized for your individual rug, so it will likely leave your rug’s pile in sticky clumps. Perhaps worst of all, the solutions can cause the dyes in your rug to bleed, causing irreparable damage to the rug as well as the floor underneath.
It’s also tempting to call a carpet cleaning company to clean your area rug. After all, it would be very convenient to have carpet cleaners come right to your home to clean your rug, rather than have your rug bundled and taken to a workshop to be cleaned. Many carpet cleaning companies are skilled at cleaning wall-to-wall carpeting, but your rug is completely different and requires a different cleaning method. Carpet cleaning machinery and cleaning solutions are designed for standard wall-to-wall synthetic fiber carpets, but your Oriental rug is made of wool, silk, or other natural fiber, and would be greatly damaged if it were subjected to the standard carpet cleaning process.
In some very rare cases, exceedingly large rugs do need to be cleaned in place, rather than in the rug cleaning workshop. In these rare but important situations, a carpet cleaning company or a D-I-Y project will simply not do, and a professional rug cleaning expert will need to perform the cleaning process. The rug expert will have a specific protocol for oversized rugs, and will take all the precautions to thoroughly clean your rug while protecting the underlying floor and surrounding area. Even extremely large rugs can be thoroughly deep cleaned if you find the right professional rug cleaners! Regardless of what size your rug is, and whatever its fiber, pile, and origin, a professional rug cleaner will have it thoroughly cleaned, rid of dirt and bacteria, and looking great.
Jacksonville’s Oriental Rug Cleaning Experts
RugPro Oriental Rug Cleaning is the company to trust with your fine area rugs. We offer the most thorough deep cleaning process available, and most importantly, we handle your beautiful rugs with the highest possible standard of care. We are rug experts, and have the training, experience, and deep industry knowledge to gently and thoroughly clean all types of Oriental rugs, including your finest antique Persian rug. Our state-of-the-art rug cleaning facility is located just east of downtown Jacksonville, and we serve clients throughout Jacksonville and the surrounding suburbs of Riverside Avondale, Ortega, Fleming Island, Ponte Vedra Beach, and more. Call us today to schedule your rug cleaning with the best professional rug cleaners in the business.
