You should name that roller Rick - The Rick Roller. Could ever put a picture of Mr. Astley on the rolling bit so he rolls along as you go.

I love the fact that you didnt give up and accept "failure". You turned it into a learning opportunity. Perfect.

The captions throughout the video made me ridiculously happy! I really love when you include written commentary.

Something that goes underappreciated about these rug cleaning videos is just how HEAVY rugs are when wet! Today I cleaned my own 5'x7' rug, after having it for 3 and a half years. I discovered mold under it, so I had to do something, and it was too stiff to throw into a washing machine. I don't have all these fancy tools, but I scrubbed by hand with laundry detergent and a scrub brush, rinsed with my front yard's hose, and squeegeed with my cookie sheet. It took a few hours, and was exhausting! It is still drying with a fan blowing on it.

Just wanna thank you for your videos, they help my toddler go back to sleep when he has had a nightmare- I usually save them all to watch with him but this one peaked my interest! X

You know it’s bad when the rug is delivered in a body bag! 😂 PS: I know that was just for mailing it, but it still looked like a body bag to me. 😅

Can’t believe you cleaned it up so well. I’d have cleaned it with a match and some petrol😆

You did really well considering the amount of damage to the rug. Still looked 100% better than before😊You're going to need to get some goggles for when you do the foam mushroom 😂

I was thinking “Black mold?! Omg, where is your mask??” Jump cut to him wearing his mask lol.

I love it when you do a bit of captioning and show us your thoughts and techniques during the cleaning.

That was actually very interesting, despite the fact you couldn't save it.

I think was a learning experience for all of us. Watching these videos have made me believe that just about any rug can be saved despite exposure, dirtiness, etc. But this one reminds us some damage is irreparable.

Acknowledging that we don't know something, and being willing to learn, is the only way we get better. Keep it up!

My grandmother used to have a rug like that and I remember her cleaning it weekly. You did an amazing job on this rug.

I love how, on the first pass with Dirt Reynolds, his hat was slightly back on his head giving a sort of ‘Wow! What is this’ inflection and later it was down over his eyes giving a more determined look 🤣💕. Well done, that rug was so far gone I’m amazed you did so well with it! And I love the roller.

That was a great learning rug! Really liked the soft brush cleaning and especially loved the sound of the roller cleaning! 🥰 Never going to put that rug in my home though😂 I really thought it was just going to disintegrate on you so great job on keeping it in one piece! 🩵🩵

I don't see what you are on about. Compared what it did look like to final look I truly think you revived that rug and gave it a new lease on life. It's not perfect but then it's preloved and clean which is the real miracle here, you did a bang up good job bud.

I must hand it to you; you made a valiant effort to deal with what most might consider a 'lost cause'. Brilliant work, sir!

That's one tough old rug! I half expected it to fall apart every time you flipped it over.

Well done for attempting to clean it, such a shame it was such a wreck to begin with.

Well it was a valiant effort on your part as always. At least this rug went to the great bin in the sky in a considerably cleaner condition that it found its way to you in.

Oh! It came in the mail?! 😮 Curiosity unlocked

Wow, even when some of these rugs seem hopeless, you never disappoint. Even though it eventually fell apart due to years of neglect, great job! 😊

Some things just can't be saved, you did the right thing and turned it into a learning experience. Love the tools and techniques you used on this one, James.

Thank you for what you do: a public service for providing rugs for people that need them. But THIS one........!!!!!

It looked great in the end. It's just sad that it fell apart as you cleaned it. When I take throw rugs out of the house, I give them to my husband to use in the garage to lay on when working on one of his old cars.

Glad to hear you took this as the perfect opportunity to learn and hone your skills. It's important to learn from failures as well as successes

Just wanted to say I really appreciated the commentary. I like knowing a about a rug's past and your thoughts on the process. Thanks!

You turned a negative into a positive here. Fair play to you for cleaning it. The captions were a good touch, would like to see more of those in your videos so we get more snippets of your experiences cleaning the rugs 👍

Oof - when I saw "cat vomit and urine" I knew it was probably a lost cause...and the mould besides? That poor rug's been through the wars, it has! Good on you for turning it into a learning opportunity though, James! I've learnt a lot from this as well!

At least this rug can go to it's grave clean! Good learning experience and great job!

Sometimes I wonder if a body was transported in one of these carpets 😅

First impressions? 🤢 Final impressions? 🤯 Awesome job!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻❤️❤️❤️

To clean or not to clean. That is the question.

Am i the only one who got emotional while reading the commentary? I think you you did great with it, even if it was too damaged to be completely restored 100%. Still looks good.

Great effort and the new tools really came in handy for this delicate rug. ❤

Can one day you show when you drain the dirty, soapy water? Idk why I just always wanted to see that

Always so happy when I see you're wearing a mask. Black mould is no joke. First vid I've seen w the roller, I love it!!

Love it with we get info along with the clean ❤

You can clean anything, and we have seen you do so on the worst of rugs. But how could anyone clean something disintegrating with every pass? It was far too decayed already. Great video!

It still looks way better than it was! I'm still astounded how good it came out!

Hey mate love all your videos and new techniques. Thought we weren't going to see the slow mo and the suds swirl... So glad we did. Keep up the great work, so..... Relaxing. Good onya

thanks, this was very interesting! (I always love those videos best where you explain the rug's history and the cleaning techniques.) The roller is also very cool. Can we submit names for it?

Great effort non the less.

Looks great! It was a hard clean, but it looks way better than at first!

You did an awesome job. Regardless if you feel it was failure or not. You didn't. ❤ You put respect and love into your rug cleaning. The attention you give to each rug. You have touched many lives in a positive way. My friend, have a safe and great weekend. Because a rug is so damaged when you get them, does not mean you failed. It means you absolutely work harder to overcome the disaster created by someone else.

Every Friday when you post a video, me to myself ( ok so now it's time to play guess the colour)😊❤

Pleased to meet your newest member, ( Robyn Roller 😂😂 she'd look awesome in a hard hat,) looking forward to learning thier name 👍

This cleaning was this rug's funeral pyre. Good You decided to give it a worthy send off, instead of just discarding it half way in the process.

When I was in my twenties and moved out of home for the first time, the house I moved into had a fridge that (I eventually found out) had been rescued from the side of the road several years later. And we happily continued storing our food in it for another couple of years after that. Until another roommate dropped an entire bottle of milk in the fridge and didn't clean it up properly and I found it turning into cheese in the silicon seel around the door. My point is, if twenty something me had found this rug, beautifully cleaned, on the side of the road with a "free to a good home" sign on it, it would have been welcomed with open arms. You can put the dodgy end under the couch, pop a coffee table on top, it would look great.

I’m glad you took this on, Rug Bae. You can’t learn if you don’t try. That rug was incredibly disgusting and as Kenny Rogers said, you gotta know when to fold em. 🤷🏽‍♀️ You’re still one of the best rug washers in the game tho, wit yo fine arse! 😂

Not even the most fearless cowboy in all the land, Dirt Reynolds, could match up with this challenging rug! Still a fun watch but it was obvious early on that this rug was a goner.

The back of the rug is beyond repair. I’m glad you used this as an opportunity for learning!

So glad this became a learning opportunity and I hope you'll be able to save rugs like this now in the future.

A Patsy Cline favorite. " I Fall to Pieces."😂.... at least you made the landfill a cleaner place.🎉

I love this clean for you. It was a great teaching moment and like you said, you were able to experiment with your new equipment. I do like the new brush!! I also love that you admit when you are not sure if your process will work, show that process to us, whether it failed or not and are always willing to learn and grow. I thought that rug was going to completely fall apart. Everytimes you ran a piece of equipment over it, pieces of rug kept coming off. It definitely looked a thousand times better. You did an excellent job trying to restore it. To my recollection, I believe this is only three 2nd rug you were it able to save. There might be a third, but I think we beg to differ on that one if I remember right 😂 Now you know, I will put ANY rug you clean in my house, but this one.....I'll pass 😂 Did it pass the clean and smell test enough to give it to other animals to enjoy, or is it a lost cause? And if not, is there a way to dispose of it properly so it doesn't end up in a landfill?! Thanks for the teaching moment. It was great!!

That rug looked far better when you were finished with it. Cat urine had to smell horrible. I missed the squeege (it's one of my favorites), but I know that rug wouldn't have been able to handle it.

Unfortunately the backing of the rug was rotten away. Your cleaning did make a big improvement to the rug face. That being said, it still was an enjoyable video to watch. Thank You for sharing all your cleaning challenges!

Love the manual scrubbing 😊

thank you for including the rugs history

That cat knew what it was doing. It hated that rug and was trying to send the message to the owner to get rid of it. Mission accomplished now.

it's never a good sign when the carpet shows up in a body bag... though what came out at the end, even for all the damage, was still surprisingly nice.

That makes the rug I found in the road years ago seem like a priceless heirloom. I used it a few times to unstick my truck from the yard. Last Autumn, I hosed it off and now use it as a rug in my basement.

I used to think Lu Squeegee was my favorite thing, but now it's the garden roller. 😂

Looks ALOT better than it did when you opened it up. I still say good job! 👍

I like the yellow brush you use to clean the back of the rug!🤩 Out of the 2 new tools, that one is good💛 I still prefer the Luigi squeegee tho over the big rolling thing (:

Any opportunity to learn & grow, improve & experiment is always a positive idea & experience. Whether the 'results' r what was aimed for or not

YAY!!! YOU ARE WEARING A MASK!!!!!!!!!

This one was good to see that you do not always get the result you are hoping for but I still enjoyed it shame that it did not survive

Every day is a school day, James 😁 Still makes for a good video!

Dirt Reynolds was too rough for this one I guess. I'm a big fan of Rick Roller though!

Name idea for the roller: Dave Grohller

6:58 : Me trying to froth up my cappuccino with a milk frother on its lowest setting.

Love the new brush 😊

Can't fool me with your fancy lables! Thats not a garden roller, thats a rug roller!

I like the giant garden roller, that made me laugh haha

It was amazing you were able to save as much as you did. Unless someone has seen other rug cleaning videos, you don't appreciate just how much damage has been done with all those fibers coming off. You just assume it's more debris - but that was actual rug material shedding off, probably due to the mold and acid damage from the vomit and urine. Wow. I second the commenter who says the roller should be named "Rick" lol. And R2Clean2 would have probably destroyed the rug - just using LuSqueegee on it almost tore it in two. Thanks for the continued bringing of order to chaos (and boy was that rug chaos).

i'm glad you wore the respirator 😳

good job getting it clean. amazing video!

I am always amazed how well these rugs come clean! And some I wish I had in my home! But out of curiosity, how often do you have to change the vinyl covering in the shop? 👍👍

Considering what you had to work with and all the was working against you, the rug came clean. With each “failure” comes knowledge. Good job with this one.

The rug looks great considering the condition it was. Good job.

Beautiful job on a beautiful rug🎉❤

Rollsy O'Donnell! You should make a poll on what to name the new roller!

The roller should be Rolly Parton

You sound like the Merchant from Resident Evil 4 Remake. It's a compliment I assure you. :)

Some are better left … in the garbage. Thanks for showing us what you learned.

Dirt Reynolds needs a moustache.

The hat on Dirt Reynolds was a nice touch. Still think he needs a mustache!

Looks like Lu-Squeegee got to spend most of the video doing absolutely nothing while watching the rug get (Rick-)rolled several times. Dirt Reynolds probably wished that he was racing Sheriff Buford T. Justice from Texarkana to Atlanta and back within 28 hours instead instead of having to work on a rug that he knew was a hopelessly lost cause. (For a rug that was basically destined for the landfill to begin with, it still turned out pretty good in the end.)

At least you tried it looks a little better

Good effort. Pretty clean.

I might be from the United States, But this really satisfies me on how you can clean the carpets. Where can I get a Lu-Squeegee?

Considering I think it looks worn but clean . Great job.

I like "Roxy Roller" for the new rolling machine....😊

Snapchat says it’s your birthday, so happy birthday 🎉🎉

Usually they look so much better even after the first clean. Not this rug. Turns out it's hideous.

Yep, you need a soaking tub for the special ones 😊

And really, it’s here for a good satisfying video, even if it’s not perfect 😅

The roller has to be named Roland Schitt. After Schitt s Creek