Jim Williams
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If you are worried about getting the backing wet, set up a cheap single jet wand with a 4 flow nozzle and use low water pressure.
I vacuum, prespray naturals with Procyon or on synthetics Cobbs Powermax. Of course after doing a bleed test on any high $$$$ orientals. I put a strip of plastic under the fringes and use an upholstery tool to lightly clean them. Dry stroke thoroughly and immediately wipe around the edges for overspray. Never ruined a floor in 15 years.
If a rug is urine soaked or needs to be dunked I refer them to a local rug sales place that does cleaning. My days of lugging around 100 lb. rugs are long gone and I don't really have room back at my place to do them.
Any kind of flat weave gets upholstery tooled and if I do both sides of course I ask the customer if they have a tile floor it can dry on or a place to hang it.
I vacuum, prespray naturals with Procyon or on synthetics Cobbs Powermax. Of course after doing a bleed test on any high $$$$ orientals. I put a strip of plastic under the fringes and use an upholstery tool to lightly clean them. Dry stroke thoroughly and immediately wipe around the edges for overspray. Never ruined a floor in 15 years.
If a rug is urine soaked or needs to be dunked I refer them to a local rug sales place that does cleaning. My days of lugging around 100 lb. rugs are long gone and I don't really have room back at my place to do them.
Any kind of flat weave gets upholstery tooled and if I do both sides of course I ask the customer if they have a tile floor it can dry on or a place to hang it.
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