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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gregsglass, post: 301444, member: 78&quot;]Hi,</p><p>&nbsp; The best way I found was to wash them and dry them outside in the sun on the grass. For some reason between the sun and the grass it really brightens them. Also after the first snow stops I take my Oriental rugs out turn them upside down and beat them with a broom the amount of dirt even after vacuuming is amazing. Then take them in and the brightness of the pile will shock you. When I was younger and had a good job I would take them every Sep to the rug cleaner. It was an old cleaner that still used water to wash and rinse and then hang up in a three story drying area and then wrapped in brown paper and delivered to the house. God do I miss Brooklyn sometimes. My rugs were usually 5&#039;x9&#039; and cost 100 bucks to do, my big rugs 10&#039;x15&#039; were 125 bucks. When I moved down here I inquired at a big rug cleaner. I was horrified. They use a cleaning machine and tumble dry them. The cost was 350 dollars for the smaller rugs and 675 dollars for the larger ones.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/eek.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/eek.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/eek.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" />. The place in Brooklyn had concrete &quot;wells&quot; on the floor with 4&quot; high walls in which the rugs soaked for several hours and then someone with a long handled scrub brush washed them and drained the &quot;well&quot; and rinsed them four or five times before hanging them up to dry. Now my rugs get cleaned with the snow.</p><p>greg[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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