How Do Oriental Rug Cleaners Deal With Dye Stability Issues?
The temptation for experienced oriental rug cleaners is to skip dye stability testing. You get to a point over time where you are “ninety-some” percent sure a rug won’t have any problems. Of course, that doesn’t help if, in fact, the rug experiences some issues during cleaning or drying! The answer to avoiding these issues with potential “problem” rugs is to test, test, test. Without thorough testing there is no way to plan and prepare for safely washing a rug. Every cleaning solution should be tested on every color contained in the rug. That is the only way to be sure there will be no unwanted “excitement” during the washing and drying phase. Sometimes, as in the case with urine contaminated rugs, hard choices have to be made. Urine deposits, especially old deposits that have sat for weeks or months or longer, can cause otherwise stable dyes to become unstable. The presence of urine in a rug raises the probability of dye bleeding considerably. Even so, the only way to remove urine con
