Why Choosing to Professionally Clean an Oriental Rug is a Great Decision (Part 2)

Why Choosing to Professionally Clean an Oriental Rug is a Great Decision (Part 2)

When is the last time you thought about cleaning your oriental rugs? Maybe that question is akin to asking, when is the last time you thought about repainting the ceiling in your hall closet?

Your time is precious. Often homeowners have more to do than they have time to do it, so getting an oriental rug clean is the last thing on the list. What this usually amounts to is a home-grown, rush job to get soap and water onto the rug and maybe even a rented steam cleaner that should only take you a few hours to manage. That kind of thinking may have you making the same rug investment over and over again as you ruin rug after rug.

Proper cleaning of expensive floor coverings takes proper time to do it right, protecting the investment. So the next stage of thought turns to calling the professional rug cleaning company to come to your aid and do the job you don’t have time to do. But wait… When the cleaning company shows up, you’ll realize they have a schedule to keep- another job after yours— perhaps several. Their cost structure is based on the area or size or your rug, not how much time it takes to do the job properly. The faster the completion, the more profitable and the more customers visited in a day. Your in-home pros will not be concerned with proper care, rinsing, dry time, decorative borders, or color fastness. It is in the best interest of the name brand cleaning company to quickly surface clean and run before you notice any disappointing results.

The fewer steps, the better for your traveling cleaner, especially if they have limited knowledge about Oriental rugs, and whether or not the rug they are working on is worth fifty dollars or ten thousand.

In our next installment, we will look at the myths of in-home cleaning.