Rene and everyone,

What we have are commercial area rugs (very low looped fibers, as used in 
foyers near doors of buildings entrances. Some are longer rug runners, and=20
a bit heavy, but they vacuum very nicely as long as the vacuum is set to 
lowest setting and an industrial vacuum cleaner. It is not a 100% paraffin=20
removal, but it takes up most of the trimmings.

Our building maintenance people would never haul them off for cleaning. 
That has been done one time in 20 years!!  Carpet throughout a whole 
laboratory would not be a good thing to have.  We only use area rugs to 
contain paraffin at microtomy and embedding stations.  If they become too 
trashed, we get rid of them and buy new.

At 10:50 AM 9/19/2007, you wrote:
>Paraffin does NOT vacuum at all. You for sure will step on it and make it=20
>to stick to the floor. Floor with paraffin have to be scrapped. Carpets 
>(removable) are the best solution for areas where paraffin can fall to the=20
>floor. We used to have a service that brough / took away the carpets weekly.
>   René J.
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Veterinary Molecular Biology
Montana State University
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