Tag Archives: rug cleaning

How Often Should I Get My Carpets Cleaned?

I know that I am guilty of saying this all the time.   Do the dishes – I’ll wait until later Clean out my car – I’ll wait until later Vacuum the floors – I’ll wait until later… Get my carpet cleaned – I’ll wait until later… And a few days pass, a few weeks pass even months…and then panic sets in.   We hear this frequently from our clients about scheduling for their yearly maintenance of rug cleaning, carpet cleaning,...

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The High Cost of Cheap Rugs

Every now and then we will receive an inquiry about cleaning a cheap rug that was purchased from Home Depot, Overstock.com, Costco, etc. While we can absolutely clean these rugs, there is a common misconception that because they were inexpensive, that they should be a low cost to clean. It is quite the opposite. Unfortunately, cheap rugs today are not built with quality in mind. In order to cut the cost to the consumer, they must cut corners to create the product. Many times these issues...

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Viscose Rugs – A Big Problem

Here at Rendall’s, we receive a wide variety of types of area rugs. Recently, there is one type in particular that has made us internally scream. Judging from the title of the blog post, you can probably guess which one! Yep, Viscose rugs. And there are many aliases for it too. It is also named “banana silk”, “art silk” (A/S), or “rayon”. They’re all the same, just different marketing names. Before we go any further, you might be wondering...

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What do our cleaning products smell like?

“What do your cleaning products smell like?”, the nice woman inquired over the phone recently. She continued, “the last carpet cleaner used something so strong we had to air out the house for a week!” This is an awesome question and one we hear often. I’d like to share a story with you, dear reader. When I was a new Cleaning Craftsman apprentice many years ago, I remember one of the first questions I fielded. A nice lady by the name of M. Brown, whom we still work...

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Christmas time is perfect for drinking wine…. and also wine spills – Brighton MI

We’ve received several calls over the past couple weeks about wine spills on carpet. Here are a few tips during this season for taking proper care of wine spills: First, it’s best to keep some clean white terry cloth rags or towels on hand. It’s important that they’re white so the towels don’t transfer color to the carpet. Paper towels also work, but aren’t as sturdy. Additionally, some paper towels have colorful designs in them, and sometimes they bleed dye....

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