Okay all you Professional Cleaners out there… if you want to learn from ME, here’s your chance!
August 6-7 in Las Vegas at the Piranha Marketing Specialty Cleaning & Restoration Symposium. There are about a dozen seats left, so call 480-858-0008 and ask for Victoria. She will give you the details.
Jump on it, we are going to sell out… I didn’t even have to mail out a promotion to get this one sold, which is very flattering. 
Here’s what’s really COOL about this event. I am team training with the one and only Jim Pemberton, who is the “guru” of fine fabric upholstery. So you will learn how to handle investment rugs, as well as investment upholstery.
I don’t travel to teach very often with all of the other work on my plate… so when I do it, I do it BIG. And Jim has never taught out in the “west” – so this will be a big deal for attendees, getting training from instructors who have actually run successful cleaning operations, and not just read about them in a book somewhere.
Plus, we are controversial… and a lot of FUN! Why have a business if you can’t have fun at it…?
Everyone coming to this workshop is going to be overwhelmed by the amount that they walk away KNOWING, not just hearing. We do not teach from a book, we teach from experience, and to make sure you know not only what to do but why.
Hope a few of my Rug Chick readers get in before it closes - I’d love to meet you in person!
- Lisa
P.S. The workshop is worth 2 IICRC continuing education credits, in case you need them.
Can you really clean Persian rugs, without damaging them…?
Absolutely Laura – they are only damaged if you have them cleaned in your home with high heat steam, and solutions created for synthetic wall-to-wall carpet (as opposed to washing them). The in-home machines are too rough and too high in temperature and agitation and alkalinity for wool rugs, especially Persian ones. It can create dye migration, buckling, loss of fibers, etc.
Investment rugs need to be handled by rug specialists – if you need one in your area, let me know and I will email you a company to use. Let me know, my email is rugchick@gmail.com
Lisa