The only dumb question is the one that isn't asked." That's what I was told when I started working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). I quickly learned that all these brilliant scientists and engineers had a culture of questions: there's no such thing as a dumb question. (JPL Employee)


Welcome to the RugHub. Here you will find a worldwide community of Rug Cleaning experts that want to see you become hugely successful in the field of oriental area rug care!

To get full access to the technical boards make sure you fill out your profile completely and then introduce yourself here!

We Promise to make you fill super welcome to our rug cleaning forums.




Please make sure you fill out your profile completely and we will give you full access to our LIVE RUGHUB section at the bottom where we put on LIVE INTERVIEWS with industry leaders

To fill out your profile please go to your member center (button up top) and then click on the profile option on the left hand side.

thanks for your co-operation.


Thanks

Your rug loving friends
Dusty, Shorty, Johnny Watson, Nathan Koets and Rugman 1138 (Randy Hyde)

Rug cleaning for beginners by industry veteran Mr. Gary Heacock of Portland Oregon.

Gary also has a mentorship program available where he will consult with you and help you to set up your own rug cleaning plant in the Pacific Northwest.

See Garys rug cleaning website here:
http://www.heacocks.com/University/Rugclass06.htm

and Gary's online university:
http://www.heacocks.com/University.htm

Do you have a question about the RugBadger area rug cleaner and duster?

This is the place to post your questions for any of our rug cleaning equipment.

http://www.rugbadger.com

Post all your questions, Testimonials and Cool RugBadger Experiences here!

To see more websites and testimonials of successful Rug Badger users just click here:

http://rugbadger.com/rbpage/testimonial100.html

Here I will post many of the questions that are emailed to me along with the answers, as long as I know the answer of coarse.

Feel free to post specific questions to me here.

Dirty area rug talk.

Questions about rug cleaning, cleaning systems and rug cleaning issues.  put on your wash boots and stay awhile

This board is moderated by Randy Hyde of Renaissance rug cleaners in Portland Oregon

rug re-weaving etc

Post any pic regarding rug id here.
Make sure you post pics as per specifactions in Sticky

     come on....show us your uglies!

This is the board where you can post up a picture of an ugly area rug or simply a really dirty rug and disgust your rug loving friends!

  This forum is for news in the area rug cleaning business.

more profit opportunities:
finish applications, pet odour decontamination, repairs, binding,serging, new fringes, allergen control, moth treatments, rug pad or ?

Here is where we share marketing successes, advice, questions, and disasters in marketing for the rug cleaning business.

Feel free to post your marketing pieces, videos, pics etc.  

Lets make this the most VALUABLE board on the RugHub!

All kinds of archived posts, dig in.. plenty of good stuff mixed in here

Do you want to put a few extra bucks in your pocket? Do you have some rug cleaning equipment you just don't have any use for anymore? Post any of your rug or carpet cleaning equipment for sale here. Make sure you include some good pics as well!

Click here for a link to New rug cleaning Equipment Manufactures!

Click here for the best sale on RugBadger, area rug cleaning equipment ever!

http://www.rugbadger.com/news/bizbox.html

Dusty's You tube video's of rug cleaning and equipment are here

Here you will find a full list of other carpet and area rug industry messsage boards and forums from all over the world!

If you know of more boards pls forward them to me!
dusty@therughub.com

this is a new board moderated by CRS (certified rug specialists) with NIRC (national institute of rug cleaners)

Click here to find out more about the National Institute or Rug Cleaners: http://www.restorationindustry.org/index.cfm

This board is new and is open to ALL and is moderated by Brian O'Haleck of DA Burns in Seattle Wa. http://daburns.com/specialty.shtml
and Linda Plunkett of Florida
http://www.awpov.com/oriental.shtml

You can view all threads, however, for security reasons you MUST register to post or reply on this forum.

post anything here that is personal, funny etc. and not relevant to the area rug cleaning business.

This is a special board for down under (Aus and NZ) area rug cleaners

feel free to come in and chat and get to know your like minded country folk!

This board will be opened to you for full access once your profile is filled out completly.
See "introduce yourself" forum for instructions or just click open your member center button on top.

to get back to the Aussie forum just click here:

http://www.australianforums.biz/index.php

SummerFEST or RuggieFEST.

Here we will post pics, video and more from RuggieFEST!

For more info on the friendliest gathering of carpet and rug cleaners on the planet click here!

http://www.ocibr.com/

This board is dedicated to upcoming classes for rug cleaning
Please post any news, comments, questions, pictures for classes you are attending or have already attended.

For dates of upcoming aea rug classes please open the calender button at the top of this page.

http://www.therughub.com/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl?v-cal/

This is for Questions and Answers to the Rug care De-Mystified on-line class by Robert Williamson

Please post up all your questions, pics and video here and Robert will answer usually within 48 hours.

Roberts Bio

Robert Williamson was a graduate of the first class of the ASCR/NIRC  CRS (Certified Rug Specialist) class and is one of only a handful of cleaners with that designation.

Toured country learning from different plants

Was instrumental in developing, designing, and building the rug cleaning facility at Dry-Concepts

IICRC certified master cleaner

Plant manager for the rug cleaning plant at Dry Concepts in Ft. Lauderdale FL.

involved in carpet cleaning industry since 1988

Check out Kevin Pearson area rug cleaning studio of Houston Texas

From Exported Videos

He has a live webcam where you can watch him cleaning all kinds of wool, silk, cotton and even synthetic area rugs most workdays.

Make sure you bookmark his page so you can come back often and drop him a note on his email reply box to say hi!
**********click here http://www.pearsoncarpetcare.com/Default.aspx?tabid=2244   *****************
Houston's Best Rug Cleaner lets you see how rugs get cleaned, LIVE. At Pearson Carpet Care we use all methods to care for your rugs, from completely dry chemical free, to full hand washing. Your rugs are safe with us.  The rug in the video to the right was just cleaned by another carpet cleaning company using top-down carpet cleaning equipment only. At Pearson Carpet Care we always start with a full "Badgering" then we pre-test your rug for colorfastness and shrinkage and match your rug to one of our completely safe and effective rug cleaning systems

http://www.pearsoncarpetcare.com/Default.aspx?tabid=2244

Clark Lancaster of Orbital Technolgy and engineer of all the RugBadger equipment and Obiting pad carpet cleaning equipment answers all your questions.

See Clarks website for the finest low moisture carpet cleaning equipment and machines
on the planet;

http://orbitecsolutions.com/