Fibre Care Specialist Online Course

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Online course

This is the course you must succesfully complete if you wish to apply to become a *WoolSafe Approved Service Provider.

This course is an essential reference and resource for those who are concerned with maintaining residential or commercial wool carpets and rugs. Sound technical training, experience and knowledge ensures not only that the best possible service is provided to customers, but it also provides a means of promoting one’s own skills to potential clients.

Price:

Standard Price: £145.00 + VAT ($199.00, €169.00)

Member’s Price: £ 72.50 + VAT

Tutor:

WoolSafe

This on-line training course assumes that the student has reached a reasonably high level of competence and experience in cleaning carpets and rugs. It is also intended to be an essential reference and resource for those who are concerned with maintaining residential (domestic) or commercial (contract) wool carpets and rugs, whether they become a WoolSafe-Approved Carpet Care Specialist or not.

Sound technical training, experience and knowledge ensures not only that the best possible service is provided to customers, but it also provides a means of promoting one’s own skills to potential clients, in contrast to the lack of skill displayed by those without the necessary training, expertise and experience.

With this objective in mind, this course initially follows wool fibre from fleece, to yarn, to carpet, and therefore, it describes aspects of textile processing and carpet manufacture. Initial processing and carpet or rug construction is followed by issues concerned with actual cleaning. These aspects of what are essentially textile technology, determine the ways in which wool carpet and rugs should be maintained and cleaned.

Stages of the course

Module 01 – Man-made Fibres used in carpets
Module 02 – Natural fibres used in carpets
Module 03 – Structure and properties of wool fibres
Module 04 – How wool carpets are made
Module 05 – Colouration
Module 06 – The WoolSafe maintenance testing and approval programme
Module 07 – The WoolSafe marks and what they mean
Module 08 – Wool cleaning science
Module 09 – Cleaning-related problems with colour and their solutions
Module 10 –Problems relating to cleaning and their solutions – carpet texture, structure and contamination

Each course module is followed by a self-evaluation in the form of questions, some multiple-choice, some requiring a written answer. They are based on the information presented in the current module. Simply read the question and select the correct answer from the options provided.

*subject to passing the qualifying criteria and payment of registration and network membership fee.

Fibre Care Specialist Online Course

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