Just FYI…we bought a vacuum cleaner that has adjustable suction power for these rugs. Our other vacuums were too strong and would suck up the rugs! It is cordless and is great for quick clean ups. It is also an upright and very lightweight.
In the kitchen, I have used a wet clean cloth to wipe up spills. It has held up well!
I have looked and have been tempted by Ruggable. The only other person I knew who had one said no matter how they laid it down, it looked cheap, but it sounds like from what both you and @AIMR have said that hasn’t been the case. Maybe it was just the design she had? I should look again after the holiday.
Question about the 8x10: are you washing it in a front loader? We have a full size and have put the set in a stackable configuration. I wonder if the weight of a larger rug will make the stack wobble a lot or if the rug would be so wadded that it wouldn’t clean well in a front loader (so much less water).
We have a top load washer. The weight of the rug top is equivelant to a large regular load of laundry for us. (Much smaller and less bulky than washing our King size bed quilt.) While our washer isn’t stacked, washing the ‘heavy rug’ didn’t seem to unbalance it at all. Though the washer was bought in 2016, and is pretty advanced. It self-settles the laundry, to try to avoid it becoming over balanced. I don’t know how the newer one-piece rugs are in comparison (weight wise).
I remember feeling like the rug looked odd when we got it. Unusual, because you expect rugs to have a nap, and this one is smooth. So your brain is saying “Did I just buy a patterned drop cloth?” But living with it for a week and I was SOLD. The softness of the texture under foot is really nice. Sometimes when I’m watching tv at night, I pull my feet out of my slippers, and just run my toes over the rug to feel how soft it is.
Yeah, I also felt that way when I first got ours! Your brain is used to a rug having nap and cut yarns, etc. It took a while to get used to it, but they feel so good on the feet in comparison to a cold or hard floor!
I do think the designs make a big difference as well.
