Posted this on the Threads forum the other day and had no response so thought to post here hoping to learn how to go about this.
I have an old common but very thick 4×8 braided wool rug that had been put away uncleaned and in rough storage for a goodly number of years hence a musty smell.
I’m inquiring as to the best method of cleaning the rug for normal in house use.
Thanks
–Thoreau’s Walden
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Take it over to your friendly rug cleaner. They have the equipment to really clean it and dry it.
I would but it's against my religion to hire anyone to do anything.
be building yer own casketIt would be worth the while to build still more deliberately than I did, considering, for instance, what foundation a door, a window, a cellar, a garret, have in the nature of man, and perchance never raising any superstructure until we found a better reason for it than our temporal necessities even. -Thoreau's Walden
normal in house use....LMAO.
Ok, back to live action. OUTSIDE-SUNSHINE- A BIG BOX of Baking SODA.
Lay it on a hard suface...apply soda liberally ( or Bushy-like, it don't matter) take a corn broom ( like wicked witch of the west flying contraption, NOT a gyroscope like STAN has) sweep North and south, then rotate the rug so you get the rest, still sweeping North and south..or just sweep east and west, but the static ele. can travel up the broom then, and curl your nether bits like a string bean.
Flip over ( the rug that is, I mean flip the rug over) and repeat steps 0-609...
Now string up a rope tighter than a frogs butt..and beat the living and dead snot out of the nasty , now covered in baking soda , rug.
Then, buy a dyson vacuume for 600.oo$ and use the little packet of magic sprinkles that they supply, and sprinkle them on it...rub all of your feet into the sprinkles, and then suck them up, ( use the vacuume to suck them up) , then drive back to where you got that vacuume, with the rug ON THE TRUCK and tell them exactly why, you don't want the vacuume anymore..and they will suck it ( the rug) for along spell....
then it will be shiney, so drive back home with that rug ON THE TRUCK and put it in the house with the front door open...
a cat will come along an pee right in the middle of it.
Go back to the Dyson store with the rug ON THE TRUCK and repeat the credit card transaction and salesman inter action....and take the rug home...yup...ON THE TRUCK.
Now kill the cat.
Reapeat as needed. Thats what they do around here.
What do you do after 9 killings?
Don't know why that was so funny but got a snort out of it.It would be worth the while to build still more deliberately than I did, considering, for instance, what foundation a door, a window, a cellar, a garret, have in the nature of man, and perchance never raising any superstructure until we found a better reason for it than our temporal necessities even. -Thoreau's Walden
I just call em as I see um. well, actually,that is how I cleaned my rug when the wife went away one weekend. Only thing differeant ( SP? LOL) is the cat is still catting around, and the vacuume, still sucks.
I left out step 610....use the spritzer bottle of " stain-B-Gone" that'll put a giddy up in your git go, leave the windows closed, good buzz, and ne'er a stained memory no more, just happy deigns..
Be deigned......
Pressure washer on the lawn, sitting over chicken wire or a hog panel. Don't use hot water on it or it'll shrink, but it'll be 18 inches tall.
Or you could take it to a car wash.
Edit: and the cat will pee on it as soon as it's clean.
Edited 6/16/2007 7:00 pm ET by splintergroupie
Ah yes, the pressure washer of course.
What was I thinking.There is some of the same fitness in a man's building his own house that there is in a bird's building its own nest.-Thoreau's Walden
Rez,
When my Wife's grandmother passed away, we got an ooooold wool "persian" rug, about 12' x 15' Carpet was probably 50 years old and looked like it had never been cleaned. It was filthy to say the least. I decided that I was going to clean it myself. I spread it out in the driveway on a sunny day and mixed up a batch of Tide and warm water. Vacuumed it first then went to it with a scrub brush. Had to do it twice before the rinse water was clean, then hosed it off real good and let it dry in the sun. That was probably 15 years ago and the carpet still looks like new in our dining room.
Bill Koustenis
Advanced Automotive Machine
Waldorf Md