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Your Hidden Opportunity!
Ask yourself this question, where is there future opportunity for you as a carpet cleaner in a new world of hard floors?
You've probably guessed it - Area Rugs & Mini-Plants to clean them! The trend to hard flooring installations is creating the most profitable opportunity for you in the last 20 years. In fact if you start shifting your business today over to the Area Rug Cleaning Specialty, by this time next year you could literally be:
- The Premier Area Rug Cleaning Company In Your Market Area
- Charging a minimum $3.00 per sq ft (that's before all your high profit add-ons)
- Earning more profits in 6 months than you've made in two years cleaning carpet
Before 1960, big rug plants with incredibly expensive equipment dominated the all rug & carpet cleaning.
DuPont "popcorn" Nylon changed all of that. By the 1980's they were relics & only a very few have survived. Today, "Mini-Plants" with modest investments are the 21st century darlings. Is it easy? If hard work is not in your list of things you like best, forget it. On the other hand, if you don't mind hard work, you should examine this opportunity carefully.
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Paper Rugs. The new rug nightmare.
Lisa Wagner - the Rug Chick
Just when you thought decorators could not create rugs any worse than choosing fibers like sisal or viscose for their clients... here's a new one for you - paper. Yes, I said paper. With the recommended method of cleaning rugs always being to wash them, you now have a fiber that literally cannot get wet. . . .
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Jute Rugs. What You Need To Know.
Lisa Wagner - the
I'm sure you've seen them. Rugs with a backing that looks like burlap, or rugs that have those thick beige fibers on the face or in the middle of the rug when you bend it open. Jute is quick to grow, cheap to make, and is in a LARGE number of rugs today. . . .
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Bugs, Rugs, and Storage
by Lisa Wagner - the
It's that time of year - the time for calls about moths and carpet beetles eating customers' rugs. If you don't know what to do when these rugs come into your shop, or what to recommend to panicked rug owners who call you - now you can! . . .
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Shag Rugs. What You Need To Know
by Lisa Wagner - the Rug Chick
Clean them or toss them? Seems like every year we get crazy new rugs coming from the whacky minds of designers. They are fun ideas in the beginning...until you discover that some are not even cleanable. And that's what is happening with a big group of popular rugs out these past few years, and now badly all becoming in need of a good cleaning - SHAG RUGS...This is a good article to share on your own blogs to help educate your customers. . . .
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How To Test Rug Dye Stability
Lisa Wagner
This is an excellent training video by Lisa Wagner, "the Rug Chick" that was published in the Cleanfax Online. Video: How to test rug dye stability. . . .
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Cheap Synthetic Rugs? - what you need to know. . .
Lisa Wagner
You ever have a customer tell you that the price to clean the rug is more than they paid for it? I have. Many times. Especially if they have a polypropylene rug! The rugs may have been cheap to buy, but that does not make the labor and solutions required to wash them any cheaper . . .
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Rug To Run From => Chunky Wool Shag Rugs
by Lisa Wagner, the
I'm not sure why these rugs were created. Our nickname for these rugs are noodle rugs, because they look like big noodles - They are big chunks of wool strung into a material backing. Sometimes they have latex on the backing, and sometimes they are just loosely strung in, which makes them state that the rug is "woven" when I would not of course ever call these "hand woven" or "hand knotted" rugs. . . .
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RUGS TO RUN FROM => TUFTED RUGS FROM INDIA
by Lisa Wagner the
We wash hundreds of rugs a week, so we see "flawed" product relatively quickly because we wash a whole host of natural and synthetic woven and tufted rugs. Without a doubt, there is something seriously wrong with the tufted rugs coming out of India today, and in particular the lines being sold at Pottery Barn. Following are some of the problems we are seeing on a consistent basis from TUFTED rugs from India. . . .
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Allergy Problems With Synthetic Fibers!
Lisa Wagner
Hello, I bought an Indian dhurrie and it said on the label handmade 100% wool. I bought it because it was wool since I have had allergy problems with acrylic and some synthetic fibres. However, I am highly allergic to this rug. Thinking it may be dust or moth repellant I had the rug professionally cleaned. I still am allergic to the rug and cannot have it in the room. Can you think of what the problem may be? . . .
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Tips For The Nervous Rug Shopper
Lisa Wagner
If you are cleaning rugs then you probably have clients who ask you what kinds of rugs they should buy. I get asked that question on a weekly basis... usually after they've discovered that they've bought a rug that was not what they were "promised" it was. I'm amazed at the large amount of inferior rugs hitting the market right now, and a lot of consumers, even when the rugs are not super expensive... are still getting ripped off. . . .
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Filthy Fringe Tips:
Lisa Wagner - Textile Pro
I've been getting a lot of questions lately on "how do I get the fringe looking better?!?" - so I thought I'd send out some tips to my loyal Rug Chick blog readers. =) Unfortunately there is no magic Fringe Formula that you mist on and your job is done. . . .
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Tufted Rugs Can Be Tough On Cleaners
From CLEANFAX Volume 20, Issue 11 - November 2005
Lisa Wagner - Area & Oriental rug Cleaning GURU
More and more area rugs are tufted goods, giving cleaners additional challenges in the rug cleaning market. In the past, tufted handmade rugs (as opposed to "woven" rugs) were the inexpensive merchandise on the market that, in some cases, were more apt to be replaced in-stead of professionally cleaned. But that's not the case today... . . .
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Rug Cleaning Technician Course Outline (IICRC RCT - 141)
Jim Pemberton
NOTE: CCT & UFT Certifications prerequisite. This is the industry's only hands-on rug cleaning course, with live demonstrations of hooked, Flokati, Dhurrie, Kelim, oriental and designer rugs, and also demonstrations of actual cat urine removal and 3 methods of fringe cleaning and features complete immersion cleaning in a rug pit that you can build! . . .
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