What happens when a professional carpet or restoration specialist gets called out to do a job and can’t lift his wand, let alone a couch?

The intention of this column is to subjectively discuss (my view) the carpet cleaning process in detail and in relation to the IICRC S100.

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I have felt for a long time that we are taking “shots in the dark” when we make decisions about how many airmovers to deploy on a drying job.

The Internet has turned largely into a social environment. Why else would we open up our laptop and hop on over to YouTube, Facebook or ICS’ new Clean Restore Connect forum?

As a young carpet cleaner, what I referred to as a “light wand” actually felt more like pushing a bag of cement around on the carpet.

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You can’t have a conversation about carpet cleaning without discussing truckmounts, as there’s perhaps no word more synonymous with cleaning equipment.

There’s perhaps no word more synonymous with carpet cleaning equipment than “truckmount.”

In the months of May and June, Ellen Amirkhan and I led a group of Master Rug Cleaners to Turkey where we saw the cultural highlights of the country and, in particular, rug weaving (and rug shopping).