It seemed seemed like a cost-saving idea, and maybe even good exercise. I'd clean out the room myself, old rugs included. Why hire someone to do something that I am perfectly capable of doing myself. Even if my DIY projects are not spectacular, clean out should not be an overly complicated process. And eventually I would get the hang of home repair, something that has not been high on my radar over the years as an attractive skill, but nonetheless crucial in an inflationary economy where services are very expensive. However, t here's nothing quite so sniffle-producing as the dust accumulation beneath a very old rug placed over an old carpet placed over an equally old carpet pad in a room scarcely used for decades. And its not just dust, or dust mites, its whatever random debris has filtered down through the site of thick Persian carpet, of varying degrees of grossness and particularized filth. It's doubtful that the rug or carpet underneath has been cleaned in 50 years, th
