Keeping your carpet clean can be a tough task!
Todays home maintenance tip relates to the wonderful world of carpet. One of the few things that can make you feel comfortable and warm all at the same time in the colder months. By maintaining a regular cleaning schedule for your flooring, you can continue to enjoy any occasion without any ghastly stains or spills being seen.
General carpet cleaning tips
For dust or dirt spillages, for example knocking over a plant pot onto a nice clean carpet, you will first want to get the hoover out. Hoover the affected area to ensure that all dirt and grime is lifted out. Do not try to wet the area as this will only engrain the dirt further into the pile.
Cleaning minor spillages
For liquid based stains, such as red wine or fruit juice you will want to blot the initial moisture out of the pile. This means getting an old rag or strong kitchen towl and pressing this onto the damp area. This should soak up some of the liquid and help lessen the stain.
Following this, use a carpet cleaning solution (which can be found in most home DIY stores) or your local supermarket and following the instructions found on the packet. Usually this works by leaving the solution on the affected area for a few minutes, blotting away and then repeating with a damp cloth.
Get technical!
For heavier stains, or ones that simply wont shift, you could opt for an electric carpet cleaner. Whether you hire, buy or pay someone to do the task for you, you can often get good results. These machines clean carpet extremely effectively, but are also a hygienic way to kill off dust mites and bacteria that are ingrained into the carpet after years of use.
Be sure to leave adequate drying time once cleaned. This will ensure you dont walk fresh dirt into the carpet. With a few small cleaning tips under your belt, you carpets will look as good as new!
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It is important to notice that while carpet maintenance is extremely important, sometimes natural disasters or emergencies will cause flooding that require professional water damage restoration. If you can save a beautiful carpet don’t take the chances on your own. For the rest of the time, carpet care can be done on your own.
This is a perfect guide. Thank you for sharing it.
my motto for carpet cleaning is give it a hoover and brush daily and do a good shampoo every other month. it keeps the carpet fluffy and clean just one tip do not drop the iron on it or you ill have to get another carpet as there is no way of getting rid of that mark
Thanks for this, I always have trouble getting my carpets clean. someone told me to put white wine on a red wine spillage once, needless to say that didn’t work!
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