Brandon Oriental Rugs: rug repair Bucks County

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Saturday, September 19, 2015

Professional Cleaning of Handmade Oriental Rugs by Bucks County RugStore Brandon Oriental Rugs Yields Worthwhile Results | BEFORE andAFTER PHOTOS

The before and after pictures shown here demonstrate the vast improvements in the appearance of our Chalfont, PA customer's twenty-five year old 90-line Chinese rug as a result of using Brandon Oriental Rugs cleaning and repair services.

BEFORE pictures show severe furniture impressions (table and chair legs) and multiple food stains/spots on the rug. Wear and tear on the fringe from years and years of being caught in the vacuum's beater bar left what remained looking shabby. That led to our customer's request that the rug be refringed.

AFTER Pictures show how much has been done to improve the appearance of the rug by having it professionally cleaned by Brandon Oriental Rugs' cleaning service. Furniture impressions (that look as if they'd been carved into the rug) have vanished. The mottling of the pile by wear and dirt has been significantly reduced. And thanks to the repair wrought by our expert artisans, the fringe ends of the rug look good as new.

What doesn't show -- but is most critical for the rug's health -- is the fact that in the cleaning process it has been reinforced with protection against infestation by moths and carpet beetles; and been deodorized of all the scents it had accumulated and developed through the years as a passive bystander in your home's micro-environment.

This rug is looking good for another quarter century of hosting family and friends seated in the company of its proud owner at the dining room table.

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Friday, June 5, 2015

Rug Cleaning, Repair, Restoration and Appraisal Services In and Near Bucks County Pennsylvania

Oriental rugs are made with materials and techniques that require careful maintenance. Rug-owners who need their rugs cleaned and restored should rely on a quality professional to provide that service. Brandon Oriental Rugs (www.BrandonRugs.com), is a trusted oriental rug authority that offers high-quality rug cleaning and restoration services through skilled artisans who are entrusted with this work by premier importers and antique rug dealers. BrandonRugs conveniently provides a delivery and pickup service for their cleaning and repair services.

Our customer's rug: damaged by a broken pipe in his home while he was
away on vacation. Upon return, his Tibetan weave rug seemed almost totalled:
stained, malodorous, damaged by black mold and dry rot.

Repairing a fine quality handmade rug requires skills beyond those employed in the original weaving, Craftsmen employed by Brandon Oriental Rugs can repair worn areas, dry rot, stains and water and fire damage. Brandon Oriental Rugs has cleaned and repaired countless oriental rugs in the Bucks County, PA area to the satisfaction of many customers.

While some portions of the rug were irreparable, and had to be sacrificed,
the customer was delighted by the cleaning, repair, and restoration we performed
on a rug with sentimental value to him. Brandon's services allowed him to
continue to use it as a showpiece in his home.

Customers are assured that their oriental rug will be protected and fully insured for value while it is being cleaned or repaired.

For more information on the rug cleaning, repair, and appraisal services of Brandon Oriental Rugs, please visit our website. See below for the areas we serve throughout Bucks, Chester, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties in southeast Pennsylvania; as well as the Lehigh Valley, Central New Jersey and South Jersey.

About Brandon Oriental Rugs

Brandon Oriental Rugs, celebrating our twentieth anniversary in our present location, is "MORE THAN A STORE, we're a service:" (tm) Those who take advantage of Brandon's services save time, effort, and cost in the location and acquisition of fine quality handmade oriental and decorative area rugs

Please visit or call us:

215-794-2300
3454 York Road

Furlong, PA

(minutes from Doylestown, Peddlers Village, Newtown, New Hope, Abington, Montgomeryville, Lower Gwynedd)

(free in-home services available throughout our service area)

Here are the areas and communities we serve directly with all of our #rug-services (including #Rug-Search(tm); #rug-cleaning, #rug-repairs, #rug-appraisals, #room-measurements, #free-delivery, #interior-design-assistance, #rug-consignments, #rug-storage, #insurance-rug-damage-claims, #rug-shipment):

Bucks County, Pennsylvania: Doylestown, Jamison, Warminster, Warrington, Warwick, Washington Crossing, Upper Makefield, Newtown, Yardley, Langhorne, Richboro, Northhampton, Buckingham, Chalfont, Furlong, Lahaska (Peddlers Village), New Hope, Quakertown, Pipersville, Ottsville, Plunstead Township, Buckingham Township, Solebury, Upper Makefield Township, Lower Makefield Township, Bristol, Oxford Valley, Levittown, Morrisville, Wrightstown, Penns Purchase

Philadelphia and Suburbs in Southeast Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Malvern, Devon, Main Line, Chestnut Hill and Bryn Mawr

Mercer County, NJ and nearby communities: Princeton, Titusville, Hamilton, NJ and vicinity

Hunterdon County, NJ and nearby communities: Lambertville, Clinton, Stockton, Whitehouse Station, Flemington, Ringoes, Basking Ridge, Bernardsville, Chester, Mendham

Chester, Montgomery and Delaware Counties in Pennsylvania: Valley Forge, King of Prussia, Upper and Lower Merion, Ft. Washington, Blue Bell, Lansdale, Abington, Rydal, Haverford, Huntingdon Valley, Abington, Newtown Square, Rydal, Paoli, Swarthmore, Conshohocken, Norristown, Harleysville, Blue Bell, Lower Gwynedd, Gwynedd Township, Montgomeryville, North Wales, West Point, Upper Frederick Township, Pennsburg, Greenlane, Perkiomonville, Souderton, Sellersville, Pottstown, Chester Springs, West Chester

Lehigh, Berks, Northhampton Counties in Pennsylvania: Easton, Bath, Bangor, Allentown, Bethlehem, Center Valley, Lower Saucon Township and the entire Lehigh Valley

The Poconos and Susquehanna Valley: Jim Thorpe, Mauch Chunk, Hawley, Scranton, Wilkes Barre, Pottsville, Stroudsberg, Delaware River Gap

New Horizons (Outside above Listed Areas)? Invite us to help you. We look forward to opportunities to explore new horizons. If we cannot help you with direct-to-door service, we are always pleased to answer questions and offer suggestions of value to you relative to your interest(s) in fine quality handmade rugs. Please give us a call if you need help.

Friday, April 4, 2014

Oriental Rug Cleaning and Repair Services by Bucks County, PA Rug Store Brandon Oriental Rugs - www.BrandonRugs.com - Provide Worthwhile Results to New Hope, PA Customer

Our customer in New Hope, PA (who has purchased numerous rugs from Brandon Oriental Rugs since the mid-1990's) recently contacted us to have an heirloom rug cleaned and re-fringed. He has a 9x12 antique, art-deco style Chinese rug he uses in his family dining room. It has been a constant presence in his family's homes since the 1930's; used by one generation after another through all those years. Here are some images of the rug "BEFORE" cleaning and repair:

The rug at intake. Notice furniture impressions from the table legs. (These usually disappear with rug washing.) The variegated shading in the rug is caused by years of foot traffic that mats the rug, and can erode pile if the rug is not regularly rotated. These shadings usually do not disappear entirely with washing because the difference in pile height between worn and unworn sections of the rug reflect light differently.

Prior repair (fifty years ago) is pulling away from the end of the rug and taking knots with it.

Not pretty. But less pleasant still is what is not shown here: the back of the rug.
Fringe applied in the 1960's was backed by a plain cloth "sleeve" that was glued
under the rug, and served as an anchor into which the replacement fringe on
front was sewn. That unfortunate repair choice limited options for the new
repair since reduction to a clean line for overcasting meant
additional loss of pile which was unacceptable to the owner.

Normally, with antique rugs we counsel that the rug be repaired by "overcasting" rather than re-fringing, but this rug had been re-fringed previously (in the 1960's) in a "less than optimal" manner that made undoing that repair impossible without loss of pile. So, after cleaning, an appropriate fringe style was selected to cover the prior repair, and protect the ends of the rug from further damage.
Notice too from the before and after pictures that the furniture impressions present in the rug at intake were removed as a result of washing the rug. Provided the impressions are not associated additionally with wear (or cutting) of the rug pile, or loss of rug knots, washing almost always WILL remove impressions from sofas, tables, chairs, and beds.
Here is the rug "AFTER" cleaning and repair; ready to perform its supporting role in the dining room for many more years:

After return: the rug is clean, deodorized, and moth-resistant.
Furniture impressions developed over time are gone.
New fringe, properly sewn to the rug, masks the unsightliness
of the old repair, and protects the ends of the rug from further damage.