Let's Shag

I embarked on cleaning my antique Greek Flokati rug yesterday afternoon. I inherited it from my grandma freshman year after probably 20 years in smoke without a cleaning. However, I think it suffered worse it's four years in Blacksburg. Two puppy trainings, spilt beer, wine, stray hookah coals, and the last straw was a "house sitter" pissing and spilling tobacco dip all over it while I was out of town. The bottom was powdering and too many bottles of revolve were lost in the pile.

Sooooo, in preparation for the move I decided to try to clean it myself and make the final decision to keep or toss (because it started to really gross me out with it's dog like stench and gray color). After calling countless rug cleaners (who I was willing and prepared to pay $100s) and having no one know what's flokati is but still offer to "give er a try" I decided to ruin it myself. I sprawled her on my driveway and started by taking a leaf blower to try to get rid of a lot of the dust. Next was hosing her down completely and shaking about 1/2 a box of Borax (my new favorite cleaning agent) over every inch. Long story short, and yes it is long and took me a total of about 5 hours, we were able to house the 500 lb wet dog onto this makeshift drying rack where she is amazingly whiter than I ever thought possible. As long as the rain holds off Through the weekend she'll be glowing in the new tiny house! More pictures to come later!



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