A good way to electrocute yourself

No he is safe... He also used good water proof ducktape on the cut chord too..Kidding..
I think that guy is ASSMOOD, he bought a new pumpout from me, leaves it to freeze outside. then hooks it up to a wall outlet the demanded his money back a few months later.... I actually giggled when I said "Dude you have been smoking too much Hookah"
He hooked it upto a WALL OUTLET!! and left it on the snow..In the shipping box!!

I wonder where he truly got the initial funding to start his business??:AddEmoticons04259:
Oh yeah, immigrant grants and funding...haha

I don't know where to start on this.

First of all, I would NEVER post long work flow videos on my site to consumers. This is no different than guys who showcase their truck mounts in their ads to consumers thinking that will sell for them. It doesn't. Consumers want results, and they want to know that they are giving their valued possessions to an expert. These guys posting Badger videos of a machine beating a rug - yikes, I would never show that to a client. I'd show the RESULT of soil out - but not the process. That's like a plastic surgeon showing all the blood - when people just want to see the before and after. That's a basic marketing rule. No one cares about the process - they care about the results.

A video where someone talks about "we've either gotten lazy or smarter... this is our rigged-up way to rinse" communicates that you don't really know what you are doing. It says you are an amateur.

And the washing clip, showing all of that soil (and color run) scrubbing out of the rug, and then washing and landing right back on to the rug over and over again. It's like stepping into a bath tub after someone else has used it. Gray, dirty, contaminated water.

The goal is not to just soak a dirty rug in dirty water - it is to be flushing out the bad, and putting in the fresh. This set up - and I may be wrong - seems to be someone who has seen a few different ways to do rugs, and has come up with their own way to do it.

While I'm a big proponent of D-I-Y ways of setting up a shop (I did a HUGE post on my blog on all the different equipment choices to choose from for setting up a rug shop, here it is => Rug Shop Options) - but you have to understand how to truly get a rug clean first. And these clips would fall into my category of some people who need a bit more education. I give this a "C+".

That pit needs to be on an incline and have a better pump out system and water exchange process. Heck, I'd just pour a floor and do it right, then you can properly rinse it also because a weak hose flow on a hanging up rug does not cut it. And especially in this case when it's so evident that there is residue and soap all over the rug - I'd add an acid rinse to try to get some of that mess out of the fibers.

Or - since the rugs are in Texas - I'd ship them to the Oriental Rug Cleaning Company of Dallas and get them done by true rug cleaning professionals. Heck, if I had one of the best cleaners in my region, subcontracting would be a no-brainer. I don't know who this operation is run by, but just a few changes would make a world of difference.

Lisa

You must admit that is a sweet Leopard print rug. I wonder what brothel that came out of.

Lots of rug cleaners clean under water. I don't like seeing a cord in water but in reality it doesn't matter if it is in 3 inches of water or 1/4 of an inch, you should have good ground fault protection. Some double up on them.

Cleaning under a layer of water actually helps with fugitive dye by greatly diluting it. Having water flow would be important though.

He doesn't show a rinse phase but surely he is doing something to rinse. That is a big problem for many. Good rinsing and extraction.

Check out this video from George Bell Rug Cleaning. I don't think anyone who knows George and the size of his rug cleaning business would call him crazy.

http://georgebellrugcleaning.com/site/index.php/video-3

Having a video with no commentary at all is super strange. I'm not sure how that educates consumers.

You will notice in his wash area that his is at an incline and there is massive water flow in and out as a result - something missing entirely in the original video post. I liked his set up for the water flow. Kinda like the levees along the Mississippi River - LOL.

That said - using hot water at the end of the process is a mistake. And you notice at the end when the fringes are being washed, that the red bled into the whites along the lowest border. That may be from hanging the rug up wet, or with the hot water - because heat absolutely will move the dyes in a wool rug.

I likes the drying racks out flat - it would have been interesting to hear if there were any fans running or heat - it was hard to tell from the video clip. Regardless... he does a much more thorough cleaning job than the first video. Thanks for posting!

Lisa

Lisa

Thanks for commenting. I thought what I was seeing was a substantial amount of dye coming out of that rug. Makes a shiver go up my spine.

The point of this thread was about standing in 3 inches of water. Clearly, many rug cleaners clean under a layer of water.

The issue was raised that the cleaner in the first video not rinsing. We don't know if he rinses after what is shown in this video or not. I'm betting he does. George does not use massive water flowing in and out during the wash stage. The pit is filled, the rug washed, the pit emptied of soiled water and then the rug is rinsed in a variety of ways, now including in a centrifuge from Clark and Dusty.

Some like incline in their pit or wash floor. Personally I do as well. However, pretty good water flow can be achieved by introducing water in at one end of a flat pit and pumping it out at the other end. Phil Auserehl set up a lot of rug cleaners to do just that. They call it cleaning in a river. If you are going to work under water, there is an advantage to a flatter pit.

If you notice in the George Bell video, only certain rugs are dried flat. Most rugs are hung as is done by the vast majority of rug cleaners. The extensive heating and ventilation system is clearly shown.

I was at Nathan Koets when he called George to see why he was pouring the hot water on the rug. That is some method he has for dealing with a bleeder. I know some cleaners use Anti Dye and pour it down a hanging rug to continue to flush the fugitive dye out of the rug. You can watch the dye fall like a sheet out the bottom of a rug. Then, yes you will likely have to correct the fringe afterward.

I do wonder though why that scene is in the video.

There are lots of ways to clean a rug and a wealth of information out there outside of these forums that can be found. It makes rug cleaning very interesting and enjoyable.

Thanks again Lisa for offering your opinions.