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RUG CLEANERS

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A DEEP, HEALTHY CLEAN

A steam cleaning procedure from a carpet cleaner and a rug washing procedure from a rug cleaners are worlds apart. Because rugs are portable and can be soaked in water, you can wash them much like you can clothes. However, a rug washing procedure is much more thorough than what any washing machine could do. With Babash, Reza & his technicians give each rug the personal attention to detail it needs to be thoroughly disinfected and restored. A rug is one of the dirtiest items in your home and a rug cleaning procedure is the most thorough cleaning process for anything in your home.

LOVE YOUR RUG AGAIN

Your rug acts as a filter in your home that absorbs and releases particles, which include pollutants, from and into the air; but a rug is much more than that. A rug is a piece of art that holds the spirit of the memories that we make on them and become a part of our family’s history that we can keep passing on to future generations. Once your rug has come out of the other side of our rug cleaning service you will be shocked with the results, which can sometimes look even better than when you bought them! More importantly, the air quality of your room is dramatically improved, which contributes to overall wellbeing.

GREEN WASH

We don’t use any harsh chemicals. We don’t need to. We make a personalized blend specifically for your rug made of:

WoolSafe® approved detergents, Biodegradable Plant Based Surfactants, Chelants, Natural Enzymes, Tea Tree Oil, Citrus Extract & more!

Not only do the cheap guys use harsh chemicals that could be dangerous for your rug and more importantly your family’s health, but the production and use of such products has devastating effects on the environment! 

PROFESSIONAL RUG CLEANERS 11 STEP PROCESS

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Step 1: Inspection

The process begins the very first moment we see your rug. It may not seem like much, but proper identification of the fiber content and construction of your rug, including the types of dyes used within it as well as how they’ve been processed, is absolutely crucial… This requires a deep understanding of all the manufacturing processes from around the world. Our rug specialist, with over 30 years of real world experience, will analyze the rug and in most cases be able to identify the rug construction, type and its origin, in a matter of seconds. This, along with our years of experience in area rug maintenance, helps us predict common problems that may arise when these rugs are washed. This way, we can discuss potential issues with our customers before we start the cleaning process.

During this step, we also check the rug for damage such as color bleeding, moth damage, rips, and rot. Previous cleaning history and identifying the causes of present stains goes a long in determining which cleaning method and detergent type to use in order to maximize our effectiveness of the process, while minimizing chances of damage. As a family business dedicated to providing honest service we will never overpromise on our work. If dye stability is a question, the rug is tested for colorfastness and the process is modulated accordingly. Once this step is complete, our technician will go over the details of the cleaning procedure with the client and will give them a personalized tracking code so they can track their rug’s process.

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Step 2: Pre-Treatment + Full Water Immersion, Front & back

Our washing process begins with an enzyme pre spray over problematic areas that will prepare the rug for the washing process. Enzymes are naturally occurring complex proteins that accelerate the speed of chemical reactions. Don’t worry. Enzymes are totally safe. Almost every reaction happening in your body right now is using an enzyme. After your rug is pre-soaked in these enzymes, if any at all is needed, our technicians fully emerge your rug in a large pool of water. During this step, our technicians carefully hose down both the front and the back of your rug until it is fully immersed in a fresh cold water bath. We only use cold water to ensure dye safety. This step unsettles the trapped soils and pollutants lodged deep inside of your rug. We use French drains to ensure the rug is under a constant stream of fresh water. This full immersion can never be done by a carpet cleaner, and should never be done at home for reasons that we will describe later on.

We know, we just squeezed two steps into one… In reality, your rug will receive a process that spans anywhere from 9-16 steps, which may be done multiple times, to assure the best possible results. 

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Step 3: Hand Wash

We utilize specialized hand brushes (and a whole lot of elbow grease) to thoroughly clean the edges, corners and fringes of your rug. Hand washing allows us to pay careful attention to detail and reach areas of the rug that machinery cannot. Moreover, rug fringes are too delicate for vacuums, let alone our industrial grade machinery. The detergents we hand select will make your fringes look good as new!

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Step 4: Detergent + Duster

A customized selection of detergents are selected and applied to the rug’s surface area. These are catalyzed with enzymes that help enhance the effectiveness of your custom detergent. Since we never use any hot water during our cleaning process, these enzymes give the detergent the extra boost it needs to remove stains and bring back the vibrant colors of your rug. This critical selection process will also effect your rugs lifespan. Some cleaners use buffered alkaline detergents, which may not damage the rug at first, but eventually over time, lead to fiber deterioration and potential color bleeding. Rinsing in later steps and the use of WoolSafe® approved detergents help mitigate these risks.

Then our specialists go over the rug with our “secret sauce,” which is a waterproof deep cleaning duster exclusively available at Babash Rug Services. Our deep cleaning duster is hand-operated, which allows for a detailed clean. This means that the machine is operated by a technician who can pay attention to specific problem areas, unlike automated dusting machines that apply the same pressure all over the rug. Long powerful leather strips rapidly spin on the rug to eliminate dust and trapped air pollutants trapped deep inside the rug, while removing risk of damage from abrasion. Meanwhile, another technician carefully follows the duster with a running stream of water to assure a constant dusting and rinsing process to assure process detergent lubrication.

Standard dry dusters work much slower to avoid damaging the rugs. Because of our carefully selected leather whips, and our detergent which attracts oils and soils to itself, this helps the fibers blossom after being worn down by years of traffic and use.

Note: delicate or thin rugs cannot undergo this step as the risks of potential damage is too high – but that’s okay! If your rug can’t soak in water, we have a variety of effective methods we could use with our unique organic detergent blend that will maintain our famous master balance of effectiveness and safety for your rug.

Once the fibers of your rug are clean, they can go back to absorbing air pollutants trapped within your room, which will enhance the indoor air quality of your space!

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Step 5: Detergent Rinse

To eliminate all residue from within the rug, we put your rug through a second detergent rinse. This step ensures that any mud trapped deep inside isn’t just being moved around to other parts of the rug and is instead being removed from the rug. Proper rinsing is a crucial step in the rug cleaning process. Chemical residue out which contributes to resoiling (remember that detergents work by attracting soil to themselves) and the enzymes we used in the previous steps can eventually dissolve the fiber of the rug if they’re left in there. It’s important that one they’ve been applied they are thoroughly rinsed out without any cutting corners, otherwise, as time passes, damage will occur and you won’t even know who to blame!

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Step 6: Flat Spade Treatment

This step essentially serves the same function as the previous step. We use flat spades to eliminate remaining trapped detergent and pollutant that our rinsing cycle may have. In our cleaning videos, you can watch as water comes out dark gray at the beginning of this step. The rug technician will spade your rug several times to helps extract excess water and restore the fibers’ nape to its original position and bring out the rug’s intended design and color pattern. Moreover, continuous pressure from furniture often leaves the fibers looking crushed and dull. This treatment helps detangle and expand matted fibers.

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Step 7: Detergent + Finisher

If any stains remain, we apply another set of customized organic detergents based on the stain type and the kind of rug we’re washing, as well as what condition it’s in. The flat spade step helps eliminate the trapped pollutants, but sometimes a fine film of dust still remains on the surface of the rug. In that instance, we utilize our floor buffer. This floor buffer has brushes that will clean the surface of the rug and eliminate any remaining fine dust or dust. Some rug cleaners use the buffer as the main step for their cleaning procedure, while we only use the floor buffer as a finisher to ensure a more comprehensive cleaning procedure. Appropriate brushes are selected to maximize soil suspension while avoiding wool pile distortion. For example, we use a different brush over tufted area rugs, as their wool tends to be more sensitive to abrasion damage, and abrasion damage is irreversible! Just as with our duster, maintaining adequate detergent lubrication is essential to prevent pile distortion and this will depend on the fiber quality of your rug. Custom selected brushes, based on the key principle of maximizing cleanliness and minimizing damages, along with a constant running stream of water during this step assures that the agitation from the buffer doesn’t cause felting or fiber deterioration, an irreversible damage.

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Step 8: Centrifuge Water Extraction

In order to safely and effectively remove the water from your rug, we use a centrifugal rug wringer that rotates over 2,000 times per minute and eliminates 95% of the water in the rug in just a matter of minutes. Our centrifuge is essential to quickly eliminating most of the moisture after the rug is fully immersed in water.

The risks of improper drying are cellulose browning, shrinkage, bacteria-mildew growth, resoiling, color migration and eventual deterioration of fibers which reduces the lifespan of the rug. This is why it is never advised to clean your rugs at home, as there are no means of quickly drying the rug.

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Step 9: Brush Treatment

Once the rug is taken out of the centrifuge, specialized brushes are selected based on the weaving pattern and fibers of the rug. Our specialists will brush over your rug several times in respect to the nape of the rug fiber’s natural resting direction for pile setting. Because the rug is still damp, much like hair after towel drying, grooming in this step will keep the fibers in their natural resting direction. The brushes are gentle and will not distort or fray the fibers. Because of our deliberate attention to detail during this process, once the rug dries, it often looks better than the treatments the rug initially received in its production process, leaving our customers commenting that their rugs look even better than when they bought them. Our technicians will also take extra care on delicate or worn rugs to ensure no damage occurs.

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Step 10: Drying With Natural Sun

After the centrifuge and brush treatment, your rug will have a slight dampness to it – similar to towel-dried hair after the shower. So your rug is rotated between air drying under the warm California sun & air drying in our temperature-controlled room. This ages-old, natural drying technique is extremely effective and also eliminates any leftover odors. Our large lot and the great weather in California is what allows us to utilize this highly effective technique. Because rugs are brushed before being laid out in the sun, while wet, it has a heat setting effect, creating memory in the fiber and helping restore proper resting direction that will last through daily use.

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Step 11: Final Vacuum

After the rug has been dried, our technicians use specialized vacuums to remove any dust that may have settled while the rug was drying. Many rug cleaners may skip steps like this because it doesn’t do anything to enhance the visual appearance of the rug and the customer wouldn’t notice. Remember, carpets, particularly those made of wool, are great at hiding dust!

After the final vacuum, your rug is packaged and delivered & setup back in your home.

MOTH PROBLEM?

Identifiable by their large wings and their rice flake like larvae, these nasty critters have expensive taste and rapidly multiply. Worse yet, they hide in dark unnoticeable spaces, so you may not find them until it’s too late. If your rug currently has an infestation, there’s no way they’d survive through our bathing and squeegeeing process, not to mention the several hours that the rug spends under sunlight, which moths hate. Our Rug Moth Damage Repair service comes in handy when damage is already present, but it won’t be needed as long as you regularly vacuum your rug, especially in areas that are dark & covered by beds or couches.

sep-iconA Custom Process For Your Rug

With rug cleaners, you cannot treat them the way you would treat gas stations, by picking the cheapest or most convenient one and assume that they’re all the same. All rug cleaners have their own unique processes. With over 30 years of experience in the industry, our team knows how to get the best results. Starting from the mandatory inspection, where we evaluate the origin of your rug and test for dye stability, every step of the way is tailored to your rug’s individual needs. The cleaning process for a shag rug is completely different for a Tabriz silk Persian rug.

We then soak your rug in a constant stream of fresh water and clean it with our 100% organic detergent that is customized for your unique rug. If the rug can’t withstand soak in water, we run it through a double steam/dry cleaning process with tough organic detergents to achieve superior results. The small amount of water left in your rug is removed by naturally drying in the sun. This is something carpet cleaners can’t offer and is one of the many reasons why Babash Rug Services stands out amongst the best rug cleaners in the industry.

sep-iconThe Best of Both Worlds

In the old days, rugs were hung and beaten with wooden tools to clean them. Then rugs were rinsed in fresh river water. This technique was effective and most fine rugs are still made with the idea that they must soak in water in order to be properly cleaned. Our process combines the best of the old world with technology to effectively and gently clean your rugs.

Our equipment is highly flexible, which allows attention to detail that hand washing provides, with the force and effectiveness only our high-powered machines provide. We have some of the most innovative equipment in the industry. When paired with a team of experts, we provide our customers with superior results. Furthermore, our owner and founder Reza Hafezi, has over 30 years of experience and remains an active member of the washing process on every single rug that we clean. You can rest assured that you’ve found the rug cleaners you’ve been looking for.

sep-iconRug Cleaning Pickup & Delivery In LA & Ventura County

Kudos to you if you can haul a dirty rug halfway through town for drop off rug cleaning. We’ll pass the savings on to you. You also have the option of having our rug cleaners come straight to your doorstep for pickup and delivery. This includes the entirety of Los Angeles County including Rug Cleaning West Hollywood! The same people you speak with over the phone are the same people who will visit you at your house and the same people who will be cleaning your rugs. This is the advantage of working with a well organized local family business: you get exceptional quality and customer service all the way through.

NOT CONVINCED?

Don’t neglect your rugs. Cleaning your rug should be a top priority in your home cleanliness projects. Did you know that carpets can have up to 4,000 times more bacteria on them per square inch than your toilet seat?

A professional rug cleaning procedure is the most thorough cleaning process available for any item in your home. It works out, because rugs are the dirtiest items in your home… Read about this and more on our article for top five reasons you should you regularly clean your rug.

If you have a question or need a quote then click the button below to speak to a trained rug specialist right now or call us at (818) 963-9153. Click here to watch a video of this 11 step process in action!

5 STAR SERVICE

I highly recommend Babash rugs. If you are picky and care about your delicate rugs go to Babash. You will thank me for this review. Reza Hafezi’s work is state of the art. I had lost hope in a rug that was so dirty and broken. He repaired it and washed it and I almost did not believe it was the same rug. Best rug cleaning service I know for sure.