rug wrinkles

[KevinL]

For those who use drying poles,the type with spikes in them, how do you remove the bulge that is left in some rugs when they come down?

 

[Mikey P]

In a perfect world all rugs would be dried flat topside down, right?

 

[Desk Jockey]

Has it stretched? Normally we just roll them. It mixes in with the rug roll humps.

If you're talking like a braided or something else that stretched then we re wet and dry flat.

 

[Cleanworks]

Use wider poles, I use 4 inch abs over steel poles. I don't use the spikes as I like to adjust individual carpets for inspection and treatment as they are drying sometimes. If I have something that may fly off the pole, I safety pin it. When we unroll the rug at the customers home, it usually lays flat. If there is a slight hump, it will settle out.

 

[Ron K]

Use wider poles, I use 4 inch abs over steel poles. I don't use the spikes as I like to adjust individual carpets for inspection and treatment as they are drying sometimes. If I have something that may fly off the pole, I safety pin it. When we unroll the rug at the customers home, it usually lays flat. If there is a slight hump, it will settle out.

Why don't you use spikes?

 

[Cleanworks]

I prefer a smooth surface that easily lets me move the rug up and down.

 

[Papa John]

We steam them out with garment steamer.

 

[Desk Jockey]

We have done that to soften up the back but when it happens we usually just roll all but the hump, clean it and let it dry flat.

 

[T Monahan]

For those who use drying poles,the type with spikes in them, how do you remove the bulge that is left in some rugs when they come down?

Don't hang a rug to cause it in the first place. Others have given suggestions to avoid such a dilemma.

Nonetheless, some of the suggestions already given to remedy a hump or crease may work.

FYI: The poles with the pins that hold the rug were designed by the Moore Company to lift rugs off the back of the Moore washer/wringer to carry them up by conveyor to the automated drying room. Generally, they were to hang vertically from the pins from the top of the rug near the fringe. That is, NOT Draped over the pole causing the weight of the wet rug to cause a crease or a hump.

 

[Cleanworks]

The only person who has a problem with this is Chavez. They had to tell him to stop humping the rugs.

 

[Desk Jockey]

Nobody...I repeat nobody told me I shouldn't have done so.

 

[KevinL]

Nobody...I repeat nobody told me I shouldn't have done so.

That's ok buddy. I seem to hump a lot of them too.

 

[Desk Jockey]

lol

 

[Cleanworks]

They were also complaining about some sticky residue.

 

[The Great Oz]

A bend in most rugs is easily removed by reverse rolling that section. If there's some weird construction, like the current hand-loomed junk, hanging isn't appropriate. I'd say about 3% of the rugs we clean are dried flat to avoid issues from hanging, the rest are fine.

In a perfect world all rugs would be dried flat topside down, right?

It takes longer for a rug to dry flat. Slow drying = badness.

 

[Mikey P]

With a fan under?

 

[Cleanworks]

With a fan under?

On top

 

[Mikey P]

Both.

 

[Cleanworks]

You want to be careful floating a loose rug. It can cause distortion and fraying of loose ends.

 

[The Great Oz]

With a fan under?

Airflow top and bottom would approximate the air circulation possible from hanging, so it would also be possible to get a rug dry quickly flat. Extra time and effort though, and if you don't have an abandoned desert airstrip to lay rugs out on to dry, multiple rugs will take a lot more work than hanging.

 

[Mikey P]

Do you utilize Centrifuges Bryan?

 

[Nate The Great]

@T Monahan did make the pizza/bread pan rack for drying rugs flat.. I had that idea but didn't get around to making one.. When I seen George Bell's youtube video of his pallet rack with wire mesh, that's where the idea popped in my head..

It's more ideal for space saving with you have rugs you don't want to hang..

 

[T Monahan]

With a fan under?

Depends where you want the EP.

 

[Mikey P]

As I said, in a perfect world...

 

[The Great Oz]

Do you utilize Centrifuges Bryan?

We do not have a centrifuge, as our system is time/labor efficient. Even if we could expect a drier rug from a centrifuge than our wringer, the time it takes to load, run and unload a spinner would cost us more than the few more minutes of dry room run time.

 

[Mikey P]

Do you process more rugs than Ellen?

 

[Ron K]

We do not have a centrifuge, as our system is time/labor efficient.

Ouch!

 

[Larry Cobb]

We had a 15' x 15' air table with two 1 HP 18" Wheel HVAC blowers that we used to dry some of the rugs we cleaned. It was also used for fringe installation.

It helped turn around rugs quickly when the customer payed to expedite the process.

 

[Desk Jockey]

Add some hot dry air and you might have something there.

At least in our part of the country anyway. For a good part of the year the grains are too high to get any real benefit from moisture laden air blown at the rug.

What kind of time frame are you getting for a 9x12?

I assume 2 separate circuits to run the blowers?

 

[Larry Cobb]

We had Variable speed Drives on each motor, and separate circuits.

Drying times varied with rug construction, but air pressure was maintained across the entire rug.

We did have have a suspended warehouse heater in the same area, which would speed up the process.