There is no doubt that carpet in your home is often above $1000. Maintaining carpet clean not only saves your money, but also makes you feel happy and healthy.
1. Vacuum once a week. 80 to 90% of soil by weight on carpet can be vacuumed by regular vacuum machine. Carpet vacuuming can take abrasive sand out and extend carpet life greatly. But too frequent vacuuming will quickly wear your carpet out. A customer vacuumed her carpet every day, her 3 year old carpet is almost bald. Once a week is appropriate for most homes.
2. Put a runner in front of carpet. A runner can take more than 60% of shoe soil.
3. Do not wear outside shoes inside.
4. Testing your slippers if you wear it inside. Some of the sole of slippers leave black mark on carpet. You can test if it is by scratching the sole on cement floor.
5. Wearing socks is the best for carpet. Baring feet are not as good as wearing socks because the feet will leave body grease on carpet. Socks can clean the carpet.
6. Drying any liquid stain with cotton towel as soon as possible.
7. Testing in small area first before pouring liquid detergent over stain. Liquid detergent may expand your stain.
8. Stretching carpet if it is loose. Loose carpet will deteriorate very quickly.
9. Less food or no food over carpet.
10. Repair broken carpet as soon as possible.
11. Replace old pad if you want to replace the carpet over it. New pad will extend the life of your new carpet
12. Take the rubber bottom mat off your carpet as soon as you finish your showering. The rubber bottom does prevent water from penetrating into the carpet, but also block the humidity vaporizing from the ground to the air. Long time use of this kind of mat will leave mold stain on carpet.
13. Take action when the carpet is flooded. The flooded area is normally twice as big as you imagined. More than 70% of the water is in the padding, only less than 30% of the water is in the carpet. Regular sucking from the top of carpet can only take out less than 30% of all the water. A professional cleaner should be called when carpet is flooded.
14 Clean the surrounding hard floor every day will greatly reduce the soil brought to carpet.
15. Steam clean carpet once or twice a year
By Andy, Dallas Havehouse Carpet Cleaning, www.havehouse.com
