Posted by admin On November - 3 - 2008
Should I consider buying wool carpets? Wool carpets are wonderful! Wool carpets have made my life miserable! This is actually one of those situations where both of these statements can be 100% true. My hope is to help you determine which one of these groups you belong too before you go through the expense of investing in wool carpets.
I have been cleaning carpets in Boulder Colorado for over 17 years and I have cleaned some wonderful and not so wonderful wool carpets. Wool is soft and it feels great to walk, crawl, or lay on. It feels like walking on soft hair. Wow! It is soft hair! The wool fiber consist of three main parts. The epidermis (cuticle) consisting of protective, overlapping scales on the fibers outer surface. The cortex, which composes most of the wools fiber and the center of the wool fiber is called the medulla. One of the facts that makes wool kinda scary is that it is a protein. Why could this be bad? Wool proteins can chemically bond with other proteins and can permanently attach itself to the wool fiber.
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Posted by admin On November - 3 - 2008
I have always enjoyed carpet repairs and enjoyed the easy money even more. I remember when I first started doing them and I thought wow what an easy way to make money and make my carpet cleaning clients happy at the same time. Let’s get down to business. I am going to teach you how to make simple repairs like fixing a cigarette burn or fixing a hole that your pet tore in the carpet. To start we must assemble our very expensive tools. A pencil, glue gun, glue sticks, seaming tape, a bottle of latex glue , piece of paper, seaming roller and a carpet knife. You could literally start a carpet repair business for about $20.00 to $30.00. You can find all of these tools at your local hardware store.
First we must have a piece of carpet to use for our replacement piece. If you do not have an extra piece of carpet, use a piece out of your closet. Let’s pretend that we have a small cigarette burn right in the middle of our room. We are going to take our carpet knife (razor blade), and cut out the damaged piece of carpet. I prefer to use a straight edge and cut the burn out in a square, as straight as I can. We now have a square hole in the middle of the room.
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