Carpet Maintenance
What You Need to Know About Carpet Maintenance To Make Your Life Easier
Carpet cleaning can appear to be a tedious chore. There's vacuuming, spot cleaning, and regular professional carpet cleaning that's required when a home owner has carpets in their house. If you have children or pets - then carpet cleaning maintenance seems to be double the work. There are actually a few little things that you should know about maintaining your carpet that will help prolong the life of it and make your life easier.
Vacuuming your carpet regularly is a great start in reducing your future workload. Ideally, they can be vacuumed up to 4 times a week with no ill effect on the quality of the carpet. This helps to eliminate dirt build up and thereby lessen the amount of times you will need your carpet professionally cleaned.
The other method of dry cleaning involves sprinkling a powder onto the carpet which is then worked into the carpet. This powder is highly absorbent and when vacuumed out it removes the powder and soil together.
A regular professional clean, whether once or twice a year is also important. Many nasty asthma triggering dust mites live in carpet. So if you have a family member with asthma, it is important to regularly clean your carpet thoroughly to help reduce the build up of dust mites and dirt. It also helps reduce the strength of chemicals required for cleaning. If your carpet is very dirty, stronger chemicals are generally needed to help remove the dirt.
If you are able to reduce the worst of the dirt coming inside from the outside, then you will also reduce your cleaning time. Have quality outdoor mats for people to clean their shoes off before entering your home. Use extra mats at all entrance points to the house, then only these mats will need cleaning. Shoes carry copious amounts of dirt, ensuring that people take their shoes off before walking on your carpet should help prevent abrasives scratch and abrade your fiber and de-luster your carpet.
It is also vital that when a spill occurs, that you attended to it immediately. Always keep a good spot remover in your cleaning supplies. The sooner you can get to it and clean it up the the less likely it will become a permanent stain.
