CLEANING YOUR CARPET

The Basics of How to Clean a Carpet

1.       Vacuum your carpet from both sides weekly, or every 2 weeks. Do not forget about the areas of heavy traffic. Frequent vacuuming can prolong the life of any carpet, due to preventing a build-up of those gritty particles. Consequently, your carpet fibres won’t be cut. Besides, clean around baseboards and radiators, as well as in other hard-to-reach places. This would be ideal.

2.       To rotate your carpet’s ends or for 180 degrees once a year is highly recommended. Due to it, your carpeting will wear more evenly. Changing traffic patterns and rearranging your furniture may also help much.

3.       Carpets should not be folded, but rolled. More so, nothing heavier than some lampshade should be placed on the top in order to avoid permanent creases or wrinkles on your carpet.

4.       For best cleaning, try to get a professional carpet cleaner. Perhaps, you may even want to rent or purchase a carpet extractor, the machine which will clean your carpet superficially. However, these types of machines are designed for synthetic wall-to-wall carpets, or upholstery.

5.       After removing a spill, your carpet needs to be dried.

6.       If the carpet has become wet from flood, simply get it to some professional rug cleaner in order to prevent its damage.

7.       To vacuum your wall-to-wall carpeting, you have to divide the floor into quadrants. Move to the next after you vacuum an entire quadrant.

8.       Plush carpets deeply embed dirt. That is why 1 pass is not enough. Go over every section of carpeting a few times. Work slowly in order to remove all the ground-in dirt and dust.

9.       Soil retardants are to be applied to new and newly cleaned carpets. Make sure to follow manufacturers’ advice, do it with professional equipment and use the recommended techniques.

10.   To fight odoursThe Basics of How to clean a carpet, add baking soda to your vacuum bag.