Concerns About Our Dust Creator…

Posted by on Jul 11, 2011 in News |

I just received an email recently from someone who read one of the RugBadger ads I have in Cleanfax Magazine.

It was a quite an interesting question about the concern he had about the RugBadger and all the dust he thinks it will create. Here is the unedited email he wrote:

Honestly i read your add in cleanfax and something struck me as odd..

u said a customer drops a dust filled rug on the floor in the plant with a cloud of a choking dust..

Well if thats the case whats it gonna do to our techs lungs if we start beating that rug with your

dust creator.. and im not being funny here. A rug like that should be wetted, don’t u think..

Any tyway just a thought on how your add sounds..

Gary..

Now that’s an interesting observation and shows the marketing I’ve done is doing it’s job – generating a response from the reader. So here’s is my response…

Hi Gary,

Thanks for your note. Yes I agree that the dust certainly is not healthy for a tech. The correct way to use the RugBadger is on the back of a rug while it is upside down and over a closed cell dusting grid. This will trap the majority of dust before it can become airborne.

The Pro model also has a vac port on it so you can attach any tank type vac to it and this will help to capture the small amount of dust that comes off the back of rugs. In addition to this many of my clients use an air scrubber in their dusting area as well, but this is prob overkill.

Note the pic on this link that shows an onboard vac attached to the Pro model.

http://rugbadger.com/pro-vs-el.html

Regarding wetting the rug first, problem is that the majority of the dry soils will still be in the rug after you clean. Rug cleaning 101 always teaches that you must remove the particulate soils while they are still dry.

The Six Second Myth Killer
The biggest myth in this industry is that many people think that their area rug cleaning equipment or system actually removes all of the dirt from a rug.

That just isn’t true and you can prove it to yourself by taking the “Six Second Challenge”.

Take any rug you’ve just cleaned & dried and turn it upside on the floor
Run a beater bar vacuum for 6 seconds on a small area over the back of the rug
Lift the rug up and if you see any dirt on the floor, your system is leaving dirt behind

I’ve performed the six second challenge on rugs cleaned with every type of cleaning system imaginable and found they all have left behind the heavy, gritty sediments that damage the rug fibers and shorten the life of a rug.

http://www.rugbadger.com/rugbadgers.html

Please let me know if this clarifies your question Gary.

Dusty Roberts

So that’s all I had to say except except for one small little detail.

A RugBadger is much faster than any vacuum when it comes to vibrating dirt out of rugs because it was specially designed to that day in and day out, hour after hour WITHOUT losing performance or breaking down like a vacuum will tend to do.

7 Responses to “Concerns About Our Dust Creator…”

John Braun says:
July 12, 2011 at 3:22 pm

That’s what I thought at first too. But the grid does do a wonderful job in trapping the dust. And on the occasion when we need it, the vacuum port is GREAT to have.

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Ron Henderson says:
July 12, 2011 at 3:36 pm

I do agree with John that there is minimal dust. We sweep it up into a pile, put it in a plastic zip-loc bag and show the client what we removed. Works pretty well.

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- Dusty Roberts says:
  July 12, 2011 at 3:43 pm
  
  I have a special thanks to Ron for showing me the solution to how to Badger a small or delicate rug without damaging them!,, thanks again Ron!
  
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Barry O’Connell says:
July 12, 2011 at 3:57 pm

reat question! It is great because it really needs to be addressed. The best way to deal with this is to let everyone try a Rug Badger. If someone with these concerns could Badger just one rug they would be sold. I have not used a Rug Badger Pro but even with the old model I never had a problem with dust. I wore contact lenses for many years so I was very sensitive to dust. I never had a problem at all with the Rug Badger.
If a hand woven rug is not dusted it is not clean! I have never seen a better way to dust most rugs than a Rug Badger.
Best wishes,
Barry O’Connell
570-447-4395
http://WWW.SpongoBongo.com

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Pablo G. says:
July 12, 2011 at 4:11 pm

From my point of view just seems like that guys email was more snobby than sincere concern for his employees.

Its called it dust mask dude. I bet his crew has chemical masks. Email Bridgepoint or Chemspec…”Ummm these are harsh chemicals what are you gonna do about them?”

Cmon now…

Sorry but i hate when people try to get smart

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Jeff Whittington says:
July 13, 2011 at 4:42 pm

I praise Gary for making the effort to ask the question. I would like to see Gary attend classes. Knowledge is power! I recommend Aaron Groseclose’s rug cleaning class. I have known Aaron for over 25 years & found him to be one of the most honorable men in our industry.

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- Dusty Roberts says:
  July 13, 2011 at 4:48 pm
  
  Great to here from you Jeff, I hope the Hawian rug care busines is on a GIANT roll for you. Yes, Aaron is a very big asset for our industry and I recommend his book, RCT rug training on the road, and of coarse his and Ellen’s rug master program in Dallas!
  
  for anyone interested here is the link for the upcoming training programs,, look for the yellow highlights
  http://therughub.com/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl?
  
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