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Care and Cleaning of your silk rugs or silk carpets or silk area rugs

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Care and Cleaning of your silk rugs or silk carpets or silk area rugs

By: Anlly Tuya

Silk carpets are the most expensive carpets we make in India. Did you ever thought how these silk carpets are cleaned and taken care of?

Silk rugs or say silk carpets are made from silk harvested from the cocoons of silk worms. Yes, dont get surprise and because of this please treat it properly to ensure you do not damage the soft fibers.

1. Turn the rug down from backside, so that the front portion of the rug is down. Beat slowly the back side of silk rug with the broom handle, this has impact that it loosens the dirt caught inside the silk fibers, making it easier to remove when vacuuming. Warning!!! Please do not beat the top side of the rug, as you may damage delicate silk threads.

2 Though its not necessary but you should try to vacuum a silk rug twice a week to remove dust and dirt that falls into the rug’s fibers. Please ensure to use a sweeper attachment to clean the rug.

3 . When any liquid is fallen on silk carpets, Blot the rug with a white cloth or paper towel, until all liquid is removed.

4 . After all liquid is removed or say soaked, dab the club soda onto the stain, working from outside the stain toward the inside. If this is not convenient for you, you may also mix one part white vinegar and one part water and apply this to the stain, continue blotting until the stain is removed.

5. Dry the damp area with a hair dryer or leave a fan running on the rug until the area is dry, try to avoid sunlight.

6. When you do not want to use the silk rugs store a silk rug by rolling it up with the fuzzy side on the outside. Use the sheet to cover, the roll to avoid any dust.

7. Enjoy using the silk rugs, again whenever you wish so

If you need any silk carpets(original), you may contact us, we are manufacturers and exporters of handmade silk carpets and silk area rugs, in India. This we call as Custom silk carpets.

DISCLAIMER : We recommend the above steps, we do not take any liability or gurantee. Its always better to consult the carpet cleaner for cleaning of silk rugs.

DIFFERENT NAMES kasmir rugs, indian silk rugs, cashmere silk rugs, cashmere rugs :

Did you ever thought why one silk carpets have different names? Some says Kashmir silk rugs, some kasmir rugs, some indian silk rugs some cashmere silk rugs, cashmere rugs.

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Please note that silk carpets and silk rugs all are made mainly in India, in different parts. We have manufacturing units in Kashmir(which is very rare), also, in northern India.

These Kashmir silk carpets or cashmere silk rugs are made in these area of India called KASHMIR, different people name it differently.

To make you more appropriate and wide, please note that these silk carpet in earlier times used to be in traditional designs called traditional design silk carpets, but as the time is changing these silk carpets are also in contemporary designs, called contemporary silk carpets or more popularly modern silk carpets.

Article Source:
http://www.articlecity.com/articles/home_improvement/article_7321.shtml

Here is How to Design the Perfect Water Garden

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Here is How to Design the Perfect Water Garden

By: Douglas Hoover

A water garden can be the most enjoyable investment you could ever make, or the biggest wet nightmare. A recent phone call from an angry water garden owner prompted this article. What she was describing to me was just the opposite of what would be considered the ideal water garden experience.

She began by telling me the pond was leaking, and she needed to add water daily. It was full of algae and smelled like dead fish. Besides needing to pull the sump pump out of the pond every three days to clean the algae and debris from its intake screen, her electric bill was out of hand since she installed the pond. She continued: “The grandkids were climbing around on the waterfall and the rocks slid around, exposing the liner everywhere.”

When she complained to the contractor about needing to add water every couple of days, he came out and did something and it stopped losing water. She explained that she told a friend that her water bill was three times its normal cost and that she heard running water all the time and thought it might be a stuck toilet tank float. The friend investigated and discovered the contractor had installed a mechanical water level controller to the pond. He did this instead of fixing the leak, apparently assuming that the client would never figure it out.

Then came the dreaded question she asked me: “Can you help me out?” my automatic response is, “How much did you spend on your pond and waterfall?” She answered, “$6,500!” I then asked, “Before taking your money, did the contractor give you any of the negative aspects of a liner pond, such as dangers from gnawing rodents, tree roots, sharp rocks, and other such objects?” She answered, “No, nothing at all.”

Since we do not try to patch or fix other contractors’ mistakes, there was only one reply I could give: that we would have to rip it all out and start from scratch. I explained that I had counseled at least a dozen of my clients in similar situations to go to small claims court to try to recover their investment from unscrupulous contractors. Every one of them was successful in court, thanks to their consultations with me and my assistance to them as an expert witness. One did not even have a contractor’s license and the customer had to put a lien on his house to recover her money.

Here is a summary of what I tell these people whom I have helped:

1.Research every aspect of water gardening before you start. You will rarely get unbiased information from pond liner advocates that sell pond liner kits and sump pumps. All of their so-called pond advice and “how-to” information is identical because they plagiarized false or inaccurate information from each other.

2. Find a qualified contractor.

3. Build the water garden, pond and waterfall using rebar and concrete. The pond liner track record speaks for itself:

More than 37% of all waterfalls have serious structural damage within 3 years of construction.

57% of homeowners say they are rather unsatisfied with the way their waterfall came out after the project was completed.

One in three waterfalls and ponds are leaking water within nine months of completion.

63% of “do-it-yourselfers” say they wished they had the proper information from the “get go” or that they had hired someone.

4. Use an energy-efficient centrifugal pump. Sump pumps are not designed for continuous operation only intermittent duty.

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5. Install an autofill water level controller.

A water garden should not be considered a short term investment. Water gardens in most cases will bring more long term joy and pleasure than anything someone could spend money on. It is something that should last for decades. If it is built with concrete and rebar, it is built to last. Liner construction, however, does not last. Take it from a professional. If it is not worth doing right, then it is not worth doing at all.

Article Source:
http://www.articlecity.com/articles/home_improvement/article_7228.shtml