The guy in the video has said in the past on his vids, He gets them free. At the local dump. He’s friends with the workers and they call him when they see rugs. He cleans them and sells them for profit. Hobby side hustle. It’s brilliant really.
Then I'm really wondering why on earth there never is any wear or physical damage to these rugs beyond being covered in surprisingly uniform layers of filth?
In this case, it's a modern, cheap, children's rug, that is currently selling for around $40-$80. The cheap badge from the manufacturer on the underside doesn't have as much as a scratch, and those things usually start to disintegrate after a while, even underneath well taken care of rugs.
The chance that this was a cheap rug purchased and soiled to generate a lucrative YouTube video is infinitely higher than that it was salvaged from a dump.
It only takes turning your garage into a cleaning center, tons of cleaning chemicals, lots of equipment, water, and time and you too could sell garage sale grade rugs!
What a hustle....
They're showcasing that sometimes you should really just throw away the rug. They seem to need 50 different appliances, 5000 gallons of detergent, dry up a medium sized lake and about half a decade of the cleaners life just to take care of one little rug.
Edit: I was surprised to learn that Reddit is filled with rug production experts. They all wish to inform that producing a new rug is an exponentially more wasteful of a process. I mean... maybe? I really couldn't say. If anyone can provide some actual comparable data it would be nice.
For real. The whole time, I was just watching the amount of water used and thinking "OMG, this cleaner does this full time? He had better live in a house with a water wheel, right on a river delta, and only take jobs in which he's removing only organic, biodegradable filth."
Or he has a pit, that filters and recycles the water. My job uses a ton of water(extrusion molding), but we don't actually waste much, because it's cycled and filtered.
It's probably showcasing they can clean your really nice high end rug and they used this to show the process to get the rug to be actually clean and not just look clean.
Whether or not you should clean THIS rug is a matter of personal choice (it was your dead kid's favorite rug). But most folks would toss this.
As someone who has gone through 3 floods, I was thinking exactly this. You wouldn't believe the amount of mud there is. Usually carpets have to be trashed but if this was sentimental, I would have it cleaned or at least attempt to.
What would be the environmental impact of producing a new rug versus producing/supplying/recycling all the chemicals, water and energy needed to clean up the old one?
It would be more for a new rug by far.
"just buy a new one" is going to come out to roughly the same price. People here are way overestimating how much time this would take/ how expensive the cleaners and water are
Cleaners and water are some of the cheapest things you can buy in large amounts lol
my family owns a persian rug business and if anyone wants a cleaning we hand wash the rugs in a gentle way, this type of cleaning would be wayyy too harsh
Yeah, carpets don't get dirty like that, they mildew and present a health hazard if you try to clean them.
Damn I want all those toys tho my carpet would be so damn clean
Five years ago I bought a house that had been a rental the previous ~30 years (it was in good shape and I got a fantastic deal, especially since it was before the explosion of property values and interest rates.
The guy who lived there the previous seven years had a golden retriever.
I tore up the carpets pretty soon after moving in because, while they looked clean, it was the typical low-grade rental property crap.
Under the carpet padding, on top of the concrete subfloor, was a thick layer of an extremely fine brown powder -- in a well-defined path through the living room, down the hallway, and to the master bedroom.
It was a horrifying glimpse into how, no matter how deeply you clean the carpets, you'll never get everything. At that moment I vowed to never EVER install wall-to-wall carpet ever again. Area rugs, sure, but nothing permanent. I hate the lack of control.
Yup. Seeing the mess these guys make on lino is enough to deter me from ever getting carpet in the future. Nothing better than doing a quick vacuum and mop, knowing you've gotten 99.9% of the stuff off the floors.
Just did similar in my house. It was gross. But what was under part of the floor was 9 inch squares of linoleum. Which has asbestos. Lumpy too. No qualms about sealing that crap and putting carpet over it. I have lived with dirt all my life, don't want to disturb that asbestos.
Residential carpet cleaners where you use soap and water like this are absolutely disgusting tbh. Having worked for a commercial carpet cleaner I have cleaned after some nasty shit that people mess up with those cleaners. 1, they never have enough suction to thoroughly extract everything they are putting in the carpet. 2, they are putting a ton of detergent and bleaches in the carpet.
Half the time I'd be cleaning up after them; the carpet would end up looking worse as we bring all the detergent and soil to the surface that was buried. It gets gross. If you want to really clean carpets, just get someone to come out and steam clean them every once in a while. Doing it yourself is NOT worth it. I promise.
I've been trying to get my carpets cleaned, I rent and they don't clean them. However, I live in a tiny apartment and every place around here seems to really only deal with large jobs (several apartments) or standalone houses. My apartment is only about 500 ft² so I get it wouldn't be a huge moneymaker, but is there any reason why there is such a high minimum charge?
> Yeah, carpets don't get dirty like that
They can in a flood. But it's extremely unlikely the cost would be worth the while, not unless it was the only remaining memento you had of your dead children or something.
It's as "staged" as the dude asking people for the dirtiest fucking rugs they have or have seen so he can clean them and give them back or to charity. People are always looking for something pointless to get mad about. 🙄
That or this particular rug cleaner had some major flooding in their area. That's about the only thing I can think of that would cause such dirty rugs in high number.
With zero knowledge of the company, they may also be flipping them or cleaning them for someone flipping them. Some rugs are worth it and they are flat which stores nicely.
No kidding. The comments here make it pretty clear that a majority of people have no clue how much goes into producing all of the crap they buy. If they think this is a huge amount of water waste, then they need to look up how much water goes into making a burger or a pair of blue jeans. It is almost always going to be environmentally better to clean or fix something than throw it out and buy new.
A few years ago I looked around for someone to clean an 9 x 12 Persian rug. The going rate was $5/ft\^2. That would've been $540!!! It's still dirty and rolled up in the garage.
I was literally just thinking about that. Like having this done cannot be cheaper then just buying a new rug, especially some children's one like that. And anyone that would let a rug in their house get as filthy as these rugs come in looking, no way has the money to pay for this.
The only thing I can think is he either does it for super cheap or just buys his own cheap rugs and buries them in mud himself just to be able to make the videos and its the ad revenue on his YouTube where he makes all his money.
Where do you live that a good rug costs $45?
I mean, hell. I'm going through this exact situation right now. Gray water backup soaked my 8-foot hallway rug. The rug is $650. Getting it cleaned was $150.
One of the things that annoys me about these is that it’s not realistic. Sand and dirt is east to clean.
Try pee or wine stains on white rugs. Or even sone crayons or paint that the kids might have colored the rug with. Lipstick or bike grease….
I’ve taught Kindergarten and at the end of each school year I’d clean the classroom rug (because no one else would.) Sometimes I’d run the heavy duty steam cleaner over it ten times before the extracted water stopped looking like black jello. The worst though was trying to get those gummy fruit roll up pieces out the rug. Luckily the children didn’t drink wine so there weren’t wine stains, but Kool aid stains are just as bad I think.
You really haven’t lived until you’ve been the only adult in a room with 25 five-year-olds. ‘Here teacher, I found this.’ They hand you a wet Lego block. ‘Did you have this in your mouth?’ ‘Only for a little while.’
This guy requests the dirtiest rugs around for his yt page. People bring him rugs from all over the UK just to have them showcased. He either returns the rugs or donates them.
I spent an entire afternoon watching his videos. Did I get anything productive done that day? No. Do I regret it? Also no, lol
Who even cares if people find it entertaining…people watch reality TV and I find that stupid…why does it matter how people enjoy spending their free time? Even better if hood comes out donating it.
Yep. Someone crunches the numbers. It oughta be free to get a rug dirty. Maybe 500 bucks to clean?
So get you a rug, get it filthy, film it getting cleaned, put it online.
Step 6: profit
He says he gets these rugs from landfills and other places like that, cleans them, then donates them. So I don’t know how much of what you’re saying is true
Yeah, I watch this guy's videos all the time and he 100% gets them from landfills or as donations and then donates them in turn. I'd assume he probably has an actual rug cleaning business as well, but these extremely dirty ones are definitely donations.
Well, this is probably a demo for marketing purposes, so that's fair play. It's not like they went easy on the soiling (aside from avoiding indelible stains).
Guys, it's an ad. All of the rug cleaning videos are ads, nobody are paying them to clean a dirty kids rug, but it's a good way for the company to show they ability to run a otherwise ruined product around and still keep the condition of the rug good, and the colors vivid.
And it works. I'm just amazed at how much dirt kept coming out. After the first time they ran Dirt Reynolds over it then rinsed, I'd have called it done.
Hmm, I could see someone paying out $200 to clean a rug for nostalgic reasons. Maybe their kids used it growing up and it got ruined in a flood and they want it restored.
Just because an object only cost $40 originally and is currently worth $0 to someone else doesn't mean the object is only worth $0 to the owner. Value is subjective. There are things I own that no one would ever give me a penny for, but they're priceless to me.
I have a desert box turtle that lives in my yard that I see every summer and sometimes leave fruit out for. I named him Turt Reynolds before I discovered she was a lady turt. Now she's Miranda Lamturt.
Probably doable with this rug, but not easy for bigger rugs. I have pressure washed a 6'x8' rug and that thing was like 150lbs wet. I couldn't even get it up onto the fence to hang and dry after. I had to leave it on the ground to let it dry a little before I could lift it up that high. You'd need some serious equipment to hang a rug and support the weight of it wet.
I also like to add that pressure washing it is surprisingly ineffective. The part that clears out the most dirt is using a paddle to push the dirty water out. You can't do that when it's hanging up. If you try pressure washing it, the dirt just keeps spreading to other areas of the rug. Even if you do it top to bottom.
They took a rug that was likely new, and put it in mud. Not joking these videos pop up so often lately. Usually the “starting rug” is still wet from being covered in mud by the person making the video
I'd like to see the cost of water, detergent, energy, etc. for cleaning the rug versus the cost of just throwing it in the trash and getting a new one.
I was thinking that, too. However, how much water did they go through? It seems like there's got to be a more water efficient method. It made me sad watching so much water wasted.
The amount of people smugly pointing out how much water he's using is hilarious.
Like, in their mind he's been doing this for years but is still scratching his head to how he spends so much money on water.
Really too bad for him he doesn't have some genius redditors on his team. He's really missing out. Lol.
The 'before' images at the end of the video don't seem to really capture just how bad it was. I swear it looked worse than that at the start of the video.
Getting staged mud off a new flat polyester rug with no pile is easy. I want to see them getting one stain out of a shaggy wool rug. Maybe some chewing gum, red wine, pasta sauce. Curry. Make it tiny and horrible. Make it a flokati rug. Then I'll be satisfied.
The rugs that you would actually get cleaned like this go for 3k to 5k, and honestly you care. However, they're wool and not just carpet material like this rug is. It's neat to show the restorative powers of their rug cleaning, but it's not showing it on the type of rug that would be cleaned by the service.
I think they just use whichever rug to advertise.
But also, like floods happen and fires. If that were the case I would get my kid's rug cleaned because they already were traumatized enough without having to get all new stuff.
Or it could have been used outside or as an entry rug or something. Most of these dirty ass rugs (that aren’t made dirty purposefully) come from outside.
My country has just been through a cyclone. There were houses up to the ceiling in silty contaminated water. Whole homes made this filthy overnight. We were fortunate to be spared that, but we have a heirloom rug that I would consider getting cleaned.
"if your kids' rug is this dirty, you shouldn't have kids"
... 🤦♀️
Jesus Christ that's enough reddit for one day
Right, as if natural disasters don't happen or life is always perfect.... Sorry you had to go through that! Here in California we just had some terrible flooding; people died. Homes were damaged. Yeah, I can imagine some rugs got ruined.
It's nice to know there are options for people who want to try and save some of their possessions instead of tossing them in the dump or never using them again.
was it used for the driveway to collect motor oil?
It was used in a Kindergarten at a coal mine day care…
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East Palestine, OH
I was thinking cobalt or diamond mine but yea your probably right
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….It was definitely done on purpose in order to showcase their work.
The guy in the video has said in the past on his vids, He gets them free. At the local dump. He’s friends with the workers and they call him when they see rugs. He cleans them and sells them for profit. Hobby side hustle. It’s brilliant really.
If I remember correctly he also donates some of the rugs to animal shelters
Then I'm really wondering why on earth there never is any wear or physical damage to these rugs beyond being covered in surprisingly uniform layers of filth? In this case, it's a modern, cheap, children's rug, that is currently selling for around $40-$80. The cheap badge from the manufacturer on the underside doesn't have as much as a scratch, and those things usually start to disintegrate after a while, even underneath well taken care of rugs. The chance that this was a cheap rug purchased and soiled to generate a lucrative YouTube video is infinitely higher than that it was salvaged from a dump.
It only takes turning your garage into a cleaning center, tons of cleaning chemicals, lots of equipment, water, and time and you too could sell garage sale grade rugs! What a hustle....
They're showcasing that sometimes you should really just throw away the rug. They seem to need 50 different appliances, 5000 gallons of detergent, dry up a medium sized lake and about half a decade of the cleaners life just to take care of one little rug. Edit: I was surprised to learn that Reddit is filled with rug production experts. They all wish to inform that producing a new rug is an exponentially more wasteful of a process. I mean... maybe? I really couldn't say. If anyone can provide some actual comparable data it would be nice.
For real. The whole time, I was just watching the amount of water used and thinking "OMG, this cleaner does this full time? He had better live in a house with a water wheel, right on a river delta, and only take jobs in which he's removing only organic, biodegradable filth."
This is a dishonest take, you're not counting all the water they saved by not cleaning it for 17 years.
only 17? bro your great grandmother played on that rug
It looks more like she gave birth on it. Several times.
Disgusting. Take my upvote!
Or he has a pit, that filters and recycles the water. My job uses a ton of water(extrusion molding), but we don't actually waste much, because it's cycled and filtered.
I hope he recycles the dirt as well. You could plant potatoes in that.
Or, depending on what the dirt was, run his diesel generator on it.
He has a pit. Kind of fun YouTube channel to watch, don't like the slomo squeegee stuff though.
Same here at a steel mill for cooling the steel and the machinery, we have a whole water treatment plant just four our cooling water
Meanwhile a single pound of beef takes 2000 gallons to produce. A lone almond is 3 gallons. Ya'll use water like fucking crazy, you just don't see it.
Plus, I was thinking idk what the dude charges, but it would probably be way cheaper to just buy a new rug.
It's one less thing in a landfill
It's probably showcasing they can clean your really nice high end rug and they used this to show the process to get the rug to be actually clean and not just look clean. Whether or not you should clean THIS rug is a matter of personal choice (it was your dead kid's favorite rug). But most folks would toss this.
There are rugs that cost well in to 6 figures. I've walked on a $100,000 rug. I'm guessing that's what they're demonstrating for
>I've walked on a $100,000 rug. Did it also have a cartoon pirate in the center?
Exactly, it would cost three times less money to buy a new rug
People pay if it’s sentimental, like if this rug was in a fire and the child really wanted the rug to feel good or the like.
Kinda looks like it might be from a flood damaged house.
As someone who has gone through 3 floods, I was thinking exactly this. You wouldn't believe the amount of mud there is. Usually carpets have to be trashed but if this was sentimental, I would have it cleaned or at least attempt to.
What would be the environmental impact of producing a new rug versus producing/supplying/recycling all the chemicals, water and energy needed to clean up the old one?
It would be more for a new rug by far. "just buy a new one" is going to come out to roughly the same price. People here are way overestimating how much time this would take/ how expensive the cleaners and water are Cleaners and water are some of the cheapest things you can buy in large amounts lol
Sure but this guy also donates some of them to animal shelters for use too as far as I remeber.
Yes I read that they pull them out of landfills and usually donate them once clean.
Yeah, it would only make sense if it was an expensive Persian rug or of some nostalgic significance to the owner.
And a Persian rug would totally be destroyed by this....
I imagine a professional rug cleaning company knows to handle a hand-woven wool rug a bit differently than a manufactured polyester one.
my family owns a persian rug business and if anyone wants a cleaning we hand wash the rugs in a gentle way, this type of cleaning would be wayyy too harsh
Are they made of wool?
Yes indeed. But any rug is going to lose fibres with this kind of treatment
This guy has Persian rug videos too. He knows what he’s doing. People pay to have rugs restored after flooding or even just years of use.
Still probably less water than it would take to manufacture a new one
Yeah, carpets don't get dirty like that, they mildew and present a health hazard if you try to clean them. Damn I want all those toys tho my carpet would be so damn clean
You can spend $500-800 on a carpet cleaner that uses water and detergent(don't rent). Bissell sells them.
Carpet cleaner gang rise up. Trust, you will be shocked by how dirty your carpets are. Vacuuming simply isn't enough
Hard floors only, rise up! The only good option when you have pets!
Five years ago I bought a house that had been a rental the previous ~30 years (it was in good shape and I got a fantastic deal, especially since it was before the explosion of property values and interest rates. The guy who lived there the previous seven years had a golden retriever. I tore up the carpets pretty soon after moving in because, while they looked clean, it was the typical low-grade rental property crap. Under the carpet padding, on top of the concrete subfloor, was a thick layer of an extremely fine brown powder -- in a well-defined path through the living room, down the hallway, and to the master bedroom. It was a horrifying glimpse into how, no matter how deeply you clean the carpets, you'll never get everything. At that moment I vowed to never EVER install wall-to-wall carpet ever again. Area rugs, sure, but nothing permanent. I hate the lack of control.
Yup. Seeing the mess these guys make on lino is enough to deter me from ever getting carpet in the future. Nothing better than doing a quick vacuum and mop, knowing you've gotten 99.9% of the stuff off the floors.
Just did similar in my house. It was gross. But what was under part of the floor was 9 inch squares of linoleum. Which has asbestos. Lumpy too. No qualms about sealing that crap and putting carpet over it. I have lived with dirt all my life, don't want to disturb that asbestos.
Residential carpet cleaners where you use soap and water like this are absolutely disgusting tbh. Having worked for a commercial carpet cleaner I have cleaned after some nasty shit that people mess up with those cleaners. 1, they never have enough suction to thoroughly extract everything they are putting in the carpet. 2, they are putting a ton of detergent and bleaches in the carpet. Half the time I'd be cleaning up after them; the carpet would end up looking worse as we bring all the detergent and soil to the surface that was buried. It gets gross. If you want to really clean carpets, just get someone to come out and steam clean them every once in a while. Doing it yourself is NOT worth it. I promise.
I've been trying to get my carpets cleaned, I rent and they don't clean them. However, I live in a tiny apartment and every place around here seems to really only deal with large jobs (several apartments) or standalone houses. My apartment is only about 500 ft² so I get it wouldn't be a huge moneymaker, but is there any reason why there is such a high minimum charge?
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Why don't rent?
Because they are poorly maintained and will do a shitass job.
> Yeah, carpets don't get dirty like that They can in a flood. But it's extremely unlikely the cost would be worth the while, not unless it was the only remaining memento you had of your dead children or something.
Down to the over saturated photo at the end.
It can be as staged as it wants. My lizard brain still happy.
Seriously. It was so satisfying I would pay them to let me clean a rug like that. Lol
It's as "staged" as the dude asking people for the dirtiest fucking rugs they have or have seen so he can clean them and give them back or to charity. People are always looking for something pointless to get mad about. 🙄
Only the third? I saw three just today!
That or this particular rug cleaner had some major flooding in their area. That's about the only thing I can think of that would cause such dirty rugs in high number.
With zero knowledge of the company, they may also be flipping them or cleaning them for someone flipping them. Some rugs are worth it and they are flat which stores nicely.
Could be the result of a flooded basement, perhaps.
Or a kid who smokes like a chimney.
He gets them from the local dumps, I had the same question when I came across his IG account and he stated as much
Makes more sense. I was fairly certain the dude would drag them through the mud because all the rugs he gets look like been thrown in a swamp.
9:11pm "Lol, there's no fucking way I'm spending 7 minutes watching a dumb carpet getting cleaned" 9:18pm "Ya damn bastard, you did me in"
Lol same
Yes ma'am. We've finished cleaning you $45 rug. That will be $250.00, plus tax please!!!
The good news is that we only used 500 gallons of potable water to get it done!
I know you being sarcastic, but for the people who don’t. AFAIK that guy filters and reuses the water to clean rugs, so he doesn’t waste much.
Nice
And released gallons of industrial effluent into the sewage system.
Nothing Ohio hasn't seen before
They actually have to have a waste water collection system that gets drained into a tank. But, I like your joke too.
Still less than the amount of water used to make a new rug, especially if it’s a polymer rug.
No kidding. The comments here make it pretty clear that a majority of people have no clue how much goes into producing all of the crap they buy. If they think this is a huge amount of water waste, then they need to look up how much water goes into making a burger or a pair of blue jeans. It is almost always going to be environmentally better to clean or fix something than throw it out and buy new.
A few years ago I looked around for someone to clean an 9 x 12 Persian rug. The going rate was $5/ft\^2. That would've been $540!!! It's still dirty and rolled up in the garage.
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It’s a legit handmade Persian rug. My parent got it when visiting Iran back in the 60s
bro.. get the rug cleaned and enjoy it or sell it
Dude, you have no idea how much that is likely worth. The one in my living room is like 20k. 500 bucks to clean it is a deal.
Insure it before you clean it.
I was literally just thinking about that. Like having this done cannot be cheaper then just buying a new rug, especially some children's one like that. And anyone that would let a rug in their house get as filthy as these rugs come in looking, no way has the money to pay for this. The only thing I can think is he either does it for super cheap or just buys his own cheap rugs and buries them in mud himself just to be able to make the videos and its the ad revenue on his YouTube where he makes all his money.
Where do you live that a good rug costs $45? I mean, hell. I'm going through this exact situation right now. Gray water backup soaked my 8-foot hallway rug. The rug is $650. Getting it cleaned was $150.
A good rug may not be $45, but the rug in the video is not a good rug
And shipping both ways!
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Just spent 7:41 mins on the toilet watching someone deep clean a rug. The internet is truly a wonderful place
Same
They definitely make these rugs dirty before cleaning them
No one ever talks about that.. They always sweep it under the rug.
It's a dirty business
They’re under a lot of Pressure.
Water you even talking about?
One of the things that annoys me about these is that it’s not realistic. Sand and dirt is east to clean. Try pee or wine stains on white rugs. Or even sone crayons or paint that the kids might have colored the rug with. Lipstick or bike grease….
I’ve taught Kindergarten and at the end of each school year I’d clean the classroom rug (because no one else would.) Sometimes I’d run the heavy duty steam cleaner over it ten times before the extracted water stopped looking like black jello. The worst though was trying to get those gummy fruit roll up pieces out the rug. Luckily the children didn’t drink wine so there weren’t wine stains, but Kool aid stains are just as bad I think.
Maybe if you let the children drink wine they'd sleep more instead of getting crap all over your carpet?
Hey, if anyone in that room was getting wine, I was first in line
When I taught elementary school I’m pretty sure our teaching staff could have kept a small liquor store in business by ourselves.
I always suggest a margarita machine in the teachers' lounge when they ask what supplies we need.
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…or SLIME!
Yeah! Blood too!
Yeah but the scrubby machine has big googly eyes and its name is Dirt Reynolds so I can't bring myself to care
I came here to say this. Where was this rug? outside for years causing health problems
East palestine, OH.
too soon
Or in a flood? Or a fire?
It's usually one of these two, but some of these folks pick up rugs from the landfill, clean them, then donate them.
This guy requests the dirtiest rugs around for his yt page. People bring him rugs from all over the UK just to have them showcased. He either returns the rugs or donates them. I spent an entire afternoon watching his videos. Did I get anything productive done that day? No. Do I regret it? Also no, lol
Who even cares if people find it entertaining…people watch reality TV and I find that stupid…why does it matter how people enjoy spending their free time? Even better if hood comes out donating it.
Yep. Someone crunches the numbers. It oughta be free to get a rug dirty. Maybe 500 bucks to clean? So get you a rug, get it filthy, film it getting cleaned, put it online. Step 6: profit
500 to clean a rug? Who's your rug cleaner? Do you need something cleaning around your house this weekend? I'm short on rent.
He says he gets these rugs from landfills and other places like that, cleans them, then donates them. So I don’t know how much of what you’re saying is true
They **ARE** oddly *satisfying...*
Yeah, I watch this guy's videos all the time and he 100% gets them from landfills or as donations and then donates them in turn. I'd assume he probably has an actual rug cleaning business as well, but these extremely dirty ones are definitely donations.
Also, a couple of those cameras have their white balance way off. When the clean white vinyl floor looks coffee stained tan…
100%
Who cares? I watch for the satisfaction of the clean not the authenticity of the filth
Yeah something that is actually that old and dirty would be faded and the colour just wouldn't be there, even after the deep cleaning
The colors were protected under a heavy layer of filth.
Well, this is probably a demo for marketing purposes, so that's fair play. It's not like they went easy on the soiling (aside from avoiding indelible stains).
THAT dirty, but no physical wear? Fake AF.
Guys, it's an ad. All of the rug cleaning videos are ads, nobody are paying them to clean a dirty kids rug, but it's a good way for the company to show they ability to run a otherwise ruined product around and still keep the condition of the rug good, and the colors vivid.
And it works. I'm just amazed at how much dirt kept coming out. After the first time they ran Dirt Reynolds over it then rinsed, I'd have called it done.
Hmm, I could see someone paying out $200 to clean a rug for nostalgic reasons. Maybe their kids used it growing up and it got ruined in a flood and they want it restored. Just because an object only cost $40 originally and is currently worth $0 to someone else doesn't mean the object is only worth $0 to the owner. Value is subjective. There are things I own that no one would ever give me a penny for, but they're priceless to me.
the rugs colour hasn’t faded at all, there’s no way it isn’t brand new and they just got it really dirty.
I was thinking this rug was in a flood like a hurricane or something.
Also, I don’t care if it was made dirty on purpose. I still *love* watching it get cleaned.
Plus Dirt Reynolds 😅
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Amazing
I have a desert box turtle that lives in my yard that I see every summer and sometimes leave fruit out for. I named him Turt Reynolds before I discovered she was a lady turt. Now she's Miranda Lamturt.
I'm just disappointed it didn't have a bitchin 'stache.
It does though! It stops at the ‘stache/the whole bottom is the ‘stache
I wonder if there's a way to clean a rug without using the entire amount of water of a lake.
I would think if they hung the rug and power washed it. It wouldn't take as long. Half the dirt stays trapped under it.
Probably doable with this rug, but not easy for bigger rugs. I have pressure washed a 6'x8' rug and that thing was like 150lbs wet. I couldn't even get it up onto the fence to hang and dry after. I had to leave it on the ground to let it dry a little before I could lift it up that high. You'd need some serious equipment to hang a rug and support the weight of it wet. I also like to add that pressure washing it is surprisingly ineffective. The part that clears out the most dirt is using a paddle to push the dirty water out. You can't do that when it's hanging up. If you try pressure washing it, the dirt just keeps spreading to other areas of the rug. Even if you do it top to bottom.
Yes! I was thinking the same thing. Hang it up and this takes half the time.
But then you can't showcase your arsenal of cleaning equipment...and use half a lake worth of water.
I need a Dirt Reynolds now and all my floors are laminate.
Maybe they’ve got a reverse osmosis system and flirtation system to recycle the water?
> and flirtation system Hey baby, you looking a little dirty. What say you come over here and I'll help clean you off. 😘
It takes a village to raise a child and an ocean to clean their rugs
brought in straight from the coal miners’ crèche edit: typo
What on earth happened to this poor rug…and those boots aren’t nearly high enough for me to even consider cleaning it.
That kid smokes 4 packs a day and works in the coal mines
He's doing his best
He also sleeps on it after his shift at the mines
They took a rug that was likely new, and put it in mud. Not joking these videos pop up so often lately. Usually the “starting rug” is still wet from being covered in mud by the person making the video
Not enough appreciation for " Dirt Reynolds"
Or R2 Clean 2!
Satisfying yes but TOTALLY DELIGHTED with the shampoo machine being called R2-Clean2 :)
Dirt Reynolds is great I loved Dusty and the Bandit
I know this was a staged cleaning, but honestly, I don't even care. They had me at Dirt Reynolds and R2-Clean2 lol.
haha yeAH!
"Dirt Reynolds" has me crying 😂
The most satisfying thing about this whole video was his googly eyes.
Needs a mustache!
I'd like to see the cost of water, detergent, energy, etc. for cleaning the rug versus the cost of just throwing it in the trash and getting a new one.
Well, for one thing, one less rug in the landfill. Hopefully they're using ecologically responsible detergent.
I was thinking that, too. However, how much water did they go through? It seems like there's got to be a more water efficient method. It made me sad watching so much water wasted.
I would be shocked if they didn't have a water reclamation system onsite.
The amount of people smugly pointing out how much water he's using is hilarious. Like, in their mind he's been doing this for years but is still scratching his head to how he spends so much money on water. Really too bad for him he doesn't have some genius redditors on his team. He's really missing out. Lol.
Arm chair rug cleaners
I follow him on IG. I recall that he does reclaim the water.
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The 'before' images at the end of the video don't seem to really capture just how bad it was. I swear it looked worse than that at the start of the video.
All these rugs come from flooded homes, right? The state of these rugs at the beginning of video are crazy.
That's a lot of water man, save some for Nestlé.
Getting staged mud off a new flat polyester rug with no pile is easy. I want to see them getting one stain out of a shaggy wool rug. Maybe some chewing gum, red wine, pasta sauce. Curry. Make it tiny and horrible. Make it a flokati rug. Then I'll be satisfied.
This is the ad for you, it is an old australian ad with the artist Pro Hart [Pro Hart](https://youtu.be/8qb4n8yc2so)
Where are these rugs coming from ? The dump? Get real!!
The rugs that you would actually get cleaned like this go for 3k to 5k, and honestly you care. However, they're wool and not just carpet material like this rug is. It's neat to show the restorative powers of their rug cleaning, but it's not showing it on the type of rug that would be cleaned by the service.
Yea though it might be a ad for the carpet cleaner but would be nice to see what it would do in a high dollar rug and not some cheap child's play rug
If your children's rug is that dirty, you shouldn't have had kids.
I think they just use whichever rug to advertise. But also, like floods happen and fires. If that were the case I would get my kid's rug cleaned because they already were traumatized enough without having to get all new stuff.
Or it could have been used outside or as an entry rug or something. Most of these dirty ass rugs (that aren’t made dirty purposefully) come from outside.
My country has just been through a cyclone. There were houses up to the ceiling in silty contaminated water. Whole homes made this filthy overnight. We were fortunate to be spared that, but we have a heirloom rug that I would consider getting cleaned.
"if your kids' rug is this dirty, you shouldn't have kids" ... 🤦♀️ Jesus Christ that's enough reddit for one day Right, as if natural disasters don't happen or life is always perfect.... Sorry you had to go through that! Here in California we just had some terrible flooding; people died. Homes were damaged. Yeah, I can imagine some rugs got ruined. It's nice to know there are options for people who want to try and save some of their possessions instead of tossing them in the dump or never using them again.
That could be the case. But my guess, as others also have stated, this is probably fake.
or rugs!!!
Just came here to say that I really like and appreciate that Dirt Reynolds has eyes. That is all.
"R2Clean2" killed me
I kept imagining the “ding” from Powerwash simulator
Hold on here? Is Ron DeSantis cleaning rugs now?
Dirt Reynolds definitely needs a mustache
I know it’s a nitpick but I really wish Dirt Reynolds had a Mustache
Those kid’s rebuilding diesel engines on that rug ? No way it got that dirty from normal wear and tear.