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Carpet is a popular floor decoration in the market, it adds texture, color and warmth to a home. But carpet is easy to attract dust, stains and animal hair and mold, and not easy to clean. Knowing how to clean carpet will help it look good and last longer. Read on this article and learn how to clean carpet with methods for vacuuming, deep cleaning, and stain removal.
How To Clean Carpet The Right Way
Here are the basic steps to clean carpet and a few tips and tricks that can help make the chore easier and keep carpet clean for longer.
1. Keep The Carpet Clean
①.Vacuum regularly
Invest in a good vacuum cleaner to suck dust from the depths of carpet fibers is one of the best ways to clean carpet, especially if your carpet is fluffy or you have kittens and dogs.
- Vacuum a few times a week. If you have a pet, you may need to smoke it every day.
- Don't rush through the vacuuming process. Even high powered vacuum cleaners take time to absorb dust, dirt and hair at the bottom of carpet fibers. Leave the vacuum cleaner on the carpet more than once to make sure it is thoroughly clean.
②.Protect carpet re stepping area
If your carpet extends to the front door, kitchen or other areas that are often passed by, consider using a small piece of carpet or plastic pad to protect these areas.
- Plastic carpet pads have the added advantage of allowing the carpet to be seen through clear plastic. This is an unobtrusive way to protect your carpet from dust.
- Use aisle carpet in the corridor because more people walk in the corridor.
③.Clean up the spilled stains immediately
Allowing stains to sink into your carpet and dry will make it harder to clean. If you deal with it immediately after an accident, you will save a lot of time.
- Absorb the spillage with a clean cloth or paper towel, then pour the baking powder into the dirty area and leave for 15 minutes. When the overflow is completely dry, vacuum.
- If the spillage is wine or other colored liquid, add a little soda water before sprinkling yeast powder.
④.Understand the correct way to remove old stains
If you are faced with old wine or coffee stains, spray the contaminated area with a spray bottle filled with vinegar, then wipe it with cloth. For deeper stains, soak the stains with vinegar or carpet cleaner, sprinkle with baking powder, and vacuum when the baking powder is dry.
- Don't try to wash the stain off the carpet. Washing can damage the fibers and make the stain area look worse.
- Do not use too much vinegar, water or other liquid to soak the dirty area. If too deep into the carpet to allow it to dry, it may lead to mold growth.
- Use a mixture of lemon and salt to clean lighter carpets. Focus on the areas that need attention to make sure that your carpet will not stain into different colors.
2. Remove Odor From Carpet
Wet the towel with vinegar in warm water, screw dry and wipe the carpet. Vinegar can not only prevent carpet discoloration or fading, but also eliminate pet odor (soda also has deodorization effect). After wiping, put it in a well ventilated place to dry.
3. Deeply clean the carpet
①. Buy a carpet cleaner
The deepest stains and the most persistent odors can be removed by carpet cleaners, which use hot water and chemical cleaners to clean the fibers on the carpet.
②.Vacuum the carpet.
Before you start deep cleaning, make sure the carpet is completely free of loose dust and soil. Before using the vacuum cleaner, sweep the dirtiest part of the carpet to get rid of the dirt.
③.Pretreatment of stain area
Most carpet cleaners come with detergents that are intended to be used in the stain area before deep cleaning. If there is no stain removal detergent, spray the dirty area with vinegar.
④.Add water and detergent to the machine.
Follow the instructions provided with the machine and add the appropriate amount of hot water and carpet cleaner.
- In some cases, water and detergent are placed in their own containers; Remove the container and add water and detergent as indicated.
- Make sure the container can be loaded into the machine before proceeding.
⑤.Plug the machine in and clean your carpet
Slowly apply the machine to the carpet, making sure it covers every inch. When the machine is working properly, you can see dirty water dripping into a container on some machine models.
- If the machine runs out of water or detergent, turn off the machine and pull out the power. Discard the turbid liquid, flush the container, and then add clean hot water and detergent.
- The turbid liquid can be poured into the toilet.
- The last step is to dry the carpet.
Cleaning Tips For Long Lasting Carpet
- Carpet cleaning: The preliminary cleaning of carpet is relatively simple. First, remove the garbage attached to the carpet, then select a clean cloth, slightly smear water, gently wipe the dirt surface of the carpet. Stubborn dirt can be selected to use a small amount of carpet cleaner, stick it on the cloth, wipe it gently, and wipe it with dry cloth after wiping, and then dry with a cold blow.
- Carpet decontamination: Carpet cleaning can add a certain proportion of flour, refined salt and gypsum powder in the water, and the proportion is controlled as (6:1:1). After adding materials, after who stirs it into paste state, it cools into dry block at room temperature, then press the dry block into small pieces and sprinkle it on the dirty part of the carpet, and then roll it on the carpet with a hard brush until the small pieces are rolled into powder, Then it will work if you vacuum it.
- Carpet scalding treatment: If the fire in the home accidentally burns the carpet, we should use repair hair to eliminate this ugly scar. First, we will brush off the burnt area, then select the wool in the place where the carpet is not obvious to cut off the small section, stick it to the burning place with adhesive, then press the bonding place with a book. After drying, we can comb it gently.
- Carpet color recovery: We all found that after the carpet is permanent, the color is not as conspicuous as when it was just bought. In fact, it should make the color of carpet more conspicuous. In fact, it is very simple. You can sprinkle the edible salt on the carpet the morning before. Wipe it with a clean warm cloth the next day. The color will become bright again.
- Carpet oil treatment: Sometimes, the carpet will inevitably be stained with oil stains, which will affect the beauty. In fact, it is very simple to deal with. High concentration gasoline can easily remove the stains of juice and beer. The oil stains shall be removed with washing solution, gently wiped, then wiped with edible vinegar, and then sprinkled with fine salt at the dirt, and then cleaned, If it is very old oil stains, you can wipe it with milk for a moment.
Top 5 Carpet Cleaning Mistakes
1.Wash regularly
Today's carpets are mostly pure wool carpets, which are not suitable for frequent washing.
Suggestion: regular thorough cleaning and daily dust removal is the most correct way to maintain carpet.
2.Sunlight sterilization
A long time of sun exposure will make the carpet lose its original softness and color, which is not a good way to maintain the carpet.
Suggestion: If you want to sun sterilization, carpet in the sun drying time to 1-2 hours is appropriate, it is best to place the carpet in the vent natural air drying, in order to reduce the damage to the carpet.
3.Strong bleach
After the carpet comes into contact with strong bleaching water, it may produce chemical stains or fade, and more seriously, it may cause the carpet to corrode to wear.
Suggestion: if you really get the liquid that is difficult to clean, you'd better choose some cleaning tips to clean it. It's really not good. When you need to use strong bleaching water to clean the stains on the carpet, dilute it with water as much as possible.
4.Mistaking the carpet for shedding hair
Many people will find that there is a thin layer of "floating hair" on the surface of carpet. In fact, the "floating hair" is a common situation of short fiber wool carpet, and the phenomenon of different lengths of carpet hair is also very common.
Suggestion: thin "floating hair" is generally ignored, and for carpet hair of different lengths, just smooth it with your hands in the same direction.
5.Carpet cleaning regardless of type
Many people have no sense of difference in the material of the carpet. When they clean, they treat the carpet according to the way they know. They don't treat the material of the carpet differently. Carpets are generally divided into: silk, cotton, hemp, wool and other materials, which should be maintained in different ways according to different materials.
- Silk ground: General silk material most afraid of the sun, and must not use hot water cleaning. But now the high-grade silk carpet, after antioxidant treatment, so silk carpet in the normal sun, is not affected. Use cold water for local cleaning, use a vacuum cleaner to clean a large area, do not need to be exposed to the sun, just dry naturally.
- Cotton and hemp carpet: Cotton and hemp carpet feel very good, color fastness is absolutely higher than silk carpet, as long as it is not a small workshop carpet with poor dyeing process, there will be no color fading problem. When cleaning, use carpet special cleaner, general cotton carpet is very soft, cleaning is also very simple.
- Wool carpet: Wool carpet is the most common carpet material, wear resistance, high degree of color reduction, so don't worry about color fading
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