Stinky Rugs
Saturday, March 3, 2007 at 12:25PM The wool rug in our room has started to smell like latex in the last couple of months. Old stinky latex ... Michael noticed it first. It's less than 2 years old, and was bought on overstock.com. Made in India of course. The smell got stronger and stronger, and was really irritating. We finally rolled it up last week, and I just got around to looking online to see if there's any way to 'fix' it. We assumed the latex backing was disintegrating, but wanted to see if anyone else had the same problem. I found this discussion thread, and no longer wonder. Most there have issues w/Pottery Barn rugs, but some also from overstock and other places that import 'handmade' rugs.
Many many of the posters also have kids, and a lot have had problems with athsma, allergies, headaches, etc, in the kids who were in the rooms. Some have had those problems disappear once they remove the rugs. Fynn has been congested since age 2 weeks, with brief respites here and there, most notably when away from home. He's been in the room w/the rug since birth, had his crib over it, and now that he's in w/Douglas and old enough to sit, he plays on it every day.
Here's hoping that the removal of said rug (as of this morning) will maybe make a difference?? We shall see! At least our room doesn't stink of old rubber anymore!
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Hi! I got your blog after looking up "stinky rugs" in a Google search. I just posted the exact same thing on my blog. I have a PB rug, nearly 5 years old, 9x12, so huge and expensive. It has decided to stink it up, and there is nothing we can do about it. I found the website with the discussion about it, and wish I had the energy to pull everyone together to contact PB and other rug importers. It's crazy! Our lovely rug has been banished to the garage, where it will likely stay until we put it out on the patio this summer. Hopefully being in open air will help the smell, but if it's toxic fumes (it did give me headaches and make my nose burn while in our Family Room), it's unfortunately being torched. There goes over $1000!
BLUF (Bottom line up front): CAUTION: Breathing hazard - the rugs stink like burned rubber because there is a nasty-smelling latex substance on the rug backing underneath the burlap. BACKGROUND: Bought my stinky rug at American Home Furnishings, Albuquerque, New Mexico, some time back. After reading all these posts, decided to try fixing it last week. First tried ordinary rug cleaning with Bissell Little Green, no joy. Next soaked it overnite in the bathtub with a full 16 oz can of Oxyclean. Still stinky. Tore off burlap backing and found the culprit - uncured latex or rubber backing. My guess is they left out or under-cooked the vulcanizing part of the process to cure it. If it is indeed uncured rubber or latex, some of the handling instuctions I'm reading classify it as a hazardous substance and not to breath the fumes, because they can irritate the nose, throat, and lungs. Let's be careful out there!
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