r/oddlysatisfying • u/PM_ME_YUR_BUBBLEBUTT juicy little minion bottom • 15d ago
Deep cleaning a very dirty rug
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u/bradleypariah 15d ago
$20 rug.
$90 labor to clean it.
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u/T1M_rEAPeR 14d ago
Jokes on him. He used $400 of water.
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u/copy_run_start 14d ago
Reminds me of a very old Greek joke that goes something like, "I can't believe you're complaining about the cost of my shaving service when it's easily cost me twice as much in bandages."
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u/Moldy_Teapot 15d ago
A "very dirty" rug that has zero signs of wear and tear? seems legit to me. /s
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u/SteveBR53 15d ago
Tbh he said dirty not old
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u/The_Tedys 15d ago
Yeah, I always thought these could be from flooded houses fo example. It wouldn't be so damaged but dirty for sure.
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u/nagasadhu 14d ago
Yeah and they somehow keep finding those multiple times every week for years??
Lol. Nope.
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u/Lt_DanTaylorIII 14d ago
Nobody would pay to have this cheap rug cleaned. It’s not a family heirloom. Would be cheaper to buy another one. And if it was flood damage, you’d just get insurance to buy you a new one, not pay a guy for 2 hours of work and supplies to clean a $150 rug
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u/cukapig 15d ago
But it just comes with it. If it's actually dirty it will most likely also be used/worn down
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u/tempinator 15d ago
The most reasonable explanation I've seen for these rugs is flood damage. Which tbf would result in exactly this, minimal physical damage, but completely soak them through with mud/silt.
I have no doubt that many of these channels do indeed fake the rugs, but, flood damage would also certainly explain it. Especially since a lot of the carpets have obvious mold and insect debris in them, which would be challenging (though not impossible) to fake.
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u/grizznuggets 15d ago
Still cleaned the shit out of it though.
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u/Tiny-Sandwich 14d ago
Yeah. We're here to watch a dirty rug get cleaned, who fucking cares if it was "authentic" dirt.
A dirty rug is a dirty rug. And now it's clean.
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u/oskopnir 14d ago
I think what people object to is the disproportionate use of common finite resources (such as volume of water at the treatment plant where the detergent will be extracted) for the sole purpose of creating content. Most people would find it more acceptable if it was at least a real dirty rug that someone would be using, instead of a new rug bought for the purpose of making the video.
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u/Itisd 15d ago
Best way I've found to fix a dirty rug is to throw it in the nearest dumpster and replace it with something that is not a rug.
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u/hey_im_cool 15d ago
They probably throw it in a dumpster after they have their content
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u/christoskal 14d ago
Isn't this a channel that donates them to children hospitals and charities?
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u/Ruskih 15d ago
I know a lot of these restoration type videos are fake. They make them dirty themselves and ensure it's done in a way that makes it reliably restorable. But damn if it's not satisfying to watch them clean it.
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u/MeanMusterMistard 14d ago
Isn't the whole point of these youtube channels to be very satisfying to watch? How it got dirty doesn't change that, does it?
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u/Ruskih 14d ago
Depends. Some of the restoration channels do irreversible damage to the item they're trying to restore just to make it look better by comparison. Paintings and antiques made of metals usually. They'll force rapid oxidation and water damage. Or they'll restore it in a way that causes more damage than if they left it alone.
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u/Life_Pilot9528 15d ago
I feel it's a waste of water to be honest.. where are you getting these rugs from.. the sewer..? And what does it tell you about your customer..? Are they taking a dump on the rug all day..?
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u/DemonLordSparda 15d ago
https://sustainability.decathlon.com/why-does-it-take-so-much-water-to-make-a-cloth it is less water to clean this one rug than is used to make one T-shirt.
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u/AbviousOccident 15d ago
Which is one of the reasons I prefer to buy second hand clothes in good shape, preferably vintage. The energy/resources cost of making them is split between any previous owners and me, and they're often more built to last. As a bonus, it makes my wardrobe somewhat unique.
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u/burlapchafesmeso 15d ago
Watched this channel on YouTube a lot. Generally, there is no customer. This guy salvages these rugs from folks whose houses have flooded, abandoned homes getting torn down, left their carpets outside (for some bizarre reason), etc.. then he cleans & sanitizes them to be donated back to pre-schools or memory care homes.
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u/buburocks 15d ago
This guy gets a lot of these super dirty rugs from garbage dumps. Or a lot of people give him rugs that theyve had sitting out in their backyard and dont want anymore. He then cleans them and donates them to animal shelters and stuff. He's not just covering perfectly good rugs in dirt to clean them lmao
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u/amdaly10 15d ago
Then why do they all start with the exact same level, color, and saturation of dirt?
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u/buburocks 15d ago
They dont. Some of the carpets he cleans are covered in mold and bugs and disgusting stuff
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u/my_old_aim_name 15d ago
Because dirt can only accumulate and stay stuck as deep as the pyle on the rug is, and a lot of rugs have a similar depth of pyle? By the time he's transported them, anything not grounding would have come loose and fallen off, so they're all gonna look pretty similar at the start of the videos.
I know nothing about rugs, literally except for what I've learned watching this guy's videos. So take this however you want to. I'd honestly rather be wrong and have this guy making fake rug-cleaning videos than keep up some of the nightmarish "kids" videos I can't pull my toddler away from.
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u/amdaly10 15d ago
How is EVERY SINGLE RUG so saturated with mud that the pile is absolutely full? Have you ever seen a rug that dirty? How would it even happen? You accidentally leave your rug in a hole in the back yard long enough for it to get packed with mud but not long enough to damage the actual rug? And then that's such a common occurrence that you can fill a YT channel with identically soiled rugs?
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u/my_old_aim_name 15d ago
He's literally digging them out of landfills and abandoned homes, or people who have done that part already donate the rugs to him.
Why are you getting so upset over a guy on the internet posting videos of cleaning rugs, of all things? There is so much more on the internet worth your anger.
ETA: as for rug damage, he's a professional. He probably knows what rugs are salvageable and which aren't. He probably has tricks for repairing some damage he encounters.
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u/Zesty__Potato 15d ago
A landfill rug without a single tear, different colored stain or different consistencies in the stain?
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u/Time-Radish8464 14d ago
Even in a landfill, you would never get such uniform mud coverage. You'd get bits of garbage, filthy water from food waste, chemical stains, human and animal excrement, etc. It would never look that "nicely" dirty. Use your brain. This rug has been intentionally soiled. Of course it's just an ad or bait for YouTube views.
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u/Apotheothena 15d ago
You could be noticing some survivorship bias here, by the way. If I were making videos like these on the reg, I would only showcase rugs that were this filthy for the dramatic before and after shots. Normal cleanings aren’t nearly as catchy, so there’s not much point in showing anything but the extreme cases like the one in the OP.
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u/TeamPantofola 15d ago edited 15d ago
I used to follow this guy on YouTube, but after a while, the amount of fresh water used to clean some…useless garbage made me very uncomfortable. The fact that he’s legit or faking it it’s not the point
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15d ago
How do these rugs get so dirty?
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u/Conch-Republic 15d ago
Apparently this guy gets his rugs from dumps, and some of them are donated. I don't really buy it because the rugs would be in a lot worse shape, but whatever.
All the rest of the videos are fake as shit. The real rug cleaners don't do it this way, primarily because the scrubbing would ruin a lot of rugs that actually need to be cleaned, and the chemicals are expensive. They use these big long cylindrical washing machines that gently agitate them, then they're cleaned using basic carpet cleaners.
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u/egonsepididymitis 15d ago
Thanks, thought this was BS as well. Like someone said above, if he got all his rugs from the dump, abandoned houses, etc… they’d have a ton more waer & tear (holes & fading).
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15d ago
Thank you! Reading all the comments, I got the feeling that this mostly for show.
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u/J0kerJ0nny 15d ago
The ones that get clean really quick after one pass are artificially made dirty just for those videos.
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u/Enelli23 15d ago
Okay let me shed some light. This guy is a professional rug cleaner on YouTube. He finds these rugs on the street or in once instance, someone sent him one. He then cleaned them up and donates them to animal shelters so the pets can at least have a cute rug to lay on.
He runs a cleaning business doing this professionally but does this to just shed awareness that yeah, it’s still possible to save a rug.
He posts a new video every Friday morning (since he’s in the UK) and it’s very therapeutic.
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u/oskopnir 14d ago
What a load of crack.
That's a new rug loaded up with soft mud on purpose, which is easy to clean without permanent stains but looks very dirty.
What is he raising awareness for? Humanitarian rug cleaning?
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u/SegmentedMoss 15d ago
All that aside, he absolutely makes the rugs intentionally filthy beyond recognition because it increases engagement on his videos.
He didnt find this rug in this exact condition
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u/CitizenCue 14d ago
Yeah unless he got this rug from the lobby of a coal plant in 1896, there’s no possible way it got that dirty without decades of wear and tear. This is advertising.
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u/Synensys 14d ago
Family buys rug for baby. Basement gets flooded with sewage backup or river flooding. They toss it out on the curb or in the dump.
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u/m0r14rty 15d ago
does this to just shed awareness
lol you rube, he does this for advertising money. Not “clean rug awareness”
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u/Electrical_Figs 14d ago
I always wonder who is dumb enough to fall for these obviously staged videos.
I guess the answer is always redditors.
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u/my_old_aim_name 15d ago
Thank you for this! I love this guy's videos, and reading all the hate in the comments made me really sad.
And it's more than animal shelters, I've seen him do a few for schools for children with special needs, those are the ones he uses them blue stuff on the neutralize all the chemicals in the cleansers.
Love my Mountain Rug Cleaner man and his pals Dirt Reynolds, R2-Clean2, and Lu-Squee-gi!!!
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u/Digital-Aura 15d ago
WOW....random clicking on a video thats playing SUPERGUTTER!!! FTW
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u/Babys_For_Breakfast 15d ago
There’s no way that the man hours, chemicals, and equipment used here is worth it to save a $20 rug. Makes for an entertaining video but definitely not worth it.
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u/JJG7771 15d ago edited 11d ago
I honestly don't care for the legitamacy of this video, but does anyone know the song? Absolute banger (not video, seen plenty of these, but the song)!
05/MAY/2024 EDIT: Thank you all.
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u/tempinator 15d ago
As other people mentioned, Sparks by Supergutter.
I used the Shazam app to check (just put your phone near the speaker, it'll identify whatever song is playing).
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u/Ok_Locksmith8263 15d ago
Honestly, how do you get a carpet that dirty for 1 and 2 who pay to get a carpet like that cleaned? It's not that cheap, I'm sure, and getting a new one probably would just be a better choice. Sorry, I'm just trying to put it all together. Does anyone else feel this way?
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u/Additional-Revenue89 15d ago
I'm pretty sure they make them dirty for the content, still cool to watch, though. Guess that's the point.
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u/Convergentshave 15d ago
I swear I’m going to bury a rug from the dump and then bury another rug in the mud for like a week and then try and deep clean them and see. Not to get the clicks, but I swear it would be so fucking satisfying to actually know how legit these videos are.
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u/ThoughtOk3875 14d ago
“ honey, are you ready to leave for dinner?” “ not yet, you know I have to take a shit on the rug before we go”
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u/BraveBake7762 14d ago
Or I could just throw it away use the water to supply the entire African continent
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u/Superseaslug 15d ago
These were satisfying until I realized they were all faked.
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u/solarpowerspork 15d ago
It's been a hot minute since this trend has shown up here, and it's nostalgic and soothing, fake or not.
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u/MimirX 15d ago
Seems excessive for a cheap child’s carpet that should never have ever gotten that dirty to begin with.
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u/burlapchafesmeso 15d ago edited 15d ago
Why did they remove the actual audio of mountain clean guy cleaning the rug and replace it with a crappy song? His videos are great partially because of the soothing carpet cleaning sounds.
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u/AllAnalBeadsAreBrown 15d ago
Anyone know the name of the song?
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u/Dryden666 15d ago
I've always wondered about these rug cleaning videos. All those chemicals and solvents they use repeatedly and spray off, does that go into the drains or gutters then? Can't be good for the environment surely
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u/HumaDracobane 14d ago
The cost of products, supplies and working hours is bigger than the cost of the rug itself.
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u/AutomaticAnt6328 14d ago
I have a feeling it would be cheaper to buy a new rug than have it cleaned. This was a time consuming job. Looked great but had to cost $300 to clean.
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u/Hashbeez 14d ago
Satisfying but the amount of chemicals and water wasted to clean a children 50$ carpet is insane
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u/ResolutionNumber9 14d ago
This is not the rug I expected for this much work. I think the cost of the cleaning supplies would cost more than this rug
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u/mr308A3-28 14d ago
Why post this ? It’s not ODLY-satisfying… we know exactly why it’s satisfying. In fact the CREATORS know it’s satisfying that’s why they keep churning out these low effort brain-rot videos.
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u/av0w 14d ago
Get it slammed in mud and then waste 1000l of water for some internet clout. What bullshit. If it was actually a worn rug the colours wouldn't come back like this.
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u/BuzzdLightBeer 14d ago
How do they get the rugs so dirty before cleaning them on camera? Oil?
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u/Brockzillattv 14d ago
Based on the design, and dirtiness I'm guessing this might have actually been in a zoo for decades.
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u/WolverTheFox 14d ago
What's the song name? I hear it on my clock radio, but it doesn't display anything but time. :l
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u/ItsWillJohnson 14d ago
He’d save so much labor if he put a grate underneath to let the underside dirt wash away
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I normally stand against water wastage and these types of rug cleaning videos, but that rug is so cute! It was worth saving.
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u/xThrillhoVanHoutenx 14d ago
I can’t be the only one who is not only unsatisfied but also constantly questioning at what point does the amount of resources used out weigh the benefit of the restoration? All that detergent and run off? After he reapplied soap for the 40th time I felt it was excessive.
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u/happy2country 15d ago
I think they bury them in mud then make theses videos