Cleaning carpet at home: rules and secrets of the procedure

Carpets are practically in every home, but not everyone knows how to care for them so that they are beneficial to the interior. Learn the secreets of carpets, famous for experienced hostesses

Carpets have always been a sign of luxury and owner wealth at home. Despite the fact that the fashion for such products has long been moved into the past, many people traditionally decorate their housing. What to do so that the carpet always had a great look, regardless of the service life?

Rules and secrets

Cleaning carpets at home must be carried out approximately once a week, especially if the product is light color and has a long pile. It is carried out with the help of a broom or vacuum cleaner, but a deeper pile cleansing must be done every six months. Usually clean them with an invalid and front side, using a vacuum cleaner or elastic broom. 

Experts first recommend cleaning the wrong way that when processing the front side, the dust was not absorbed into the carpet even deeper. Note: The brush of the vacuum cleaner should be driven along the carpet, and not across. After the processed area is fully cleaned, go to the next strip, and so on until all the coating is cleaned. 

Cleaning can be several species, such as:

• Steam. The product needs to thoroughly moisten with hot water, pre-soluble in it a special cleaning agent. It will quickly absorb all the dust and dirt that a pile has accumulated on himself;
• Cold. It is carried out exactly as the steam method, only using cold water;
• Dry. A cleaning foam is applied to the surface, and after the completion of the departure it is removed by a vacuum cleaner. With dry cleaning, you can return an attractive type of product without damaging the pile structure and color loss. 

When choosing a cleaning agent, prefer precisely that is aimed at eliminating pollution on your carpet. If you discovered a spot on the carpet, first getting good enough to the cloth in the direction from the edges to the center, trying to completely collect spilled liquid.

After that, use the purge cleaning method. This method allows you to get rid of the most difficult to-out of spots, such as coffee, red wine. In addition, another advantage is the rapid elimination of any stains. 

Select the cleaning method 

Remove spots, dust and dirt from your favorite carpet flooring can be many funds, because their range is very wide today. But, before you resort to chemical cleaning, try to use undergraduate tools that can be very effective.

Experienced hostesses are divided by their pile cleansing secrets using such available funds:

• baking soda;
• kitchen salt;
• laundry soap;
• ammonia;
• sauerkraut;
• tea brewing;
• petrol;
• starch. 

You should know that before applying any of these funds, it is necessary to study the porcelain structure in order not to damage it. Especially careful cleaning is needed in the case when carpet light color. 

Baking soda

Food soda – a great remedy for coping with many pollution. It not only removes stains, but also returns the carpet initially rich color and noticeably refreshed. To make care to prepare this solution: 0.5 cup of food soda solubinate in 5 liters of warm water.

Then spray it on the surface of the product, and if there are spots on it, then they should pay more attention. Wait for half an hour so that during this time the soda absorbs all pollution and unpleasant odors. After this time, we spend the carpet coating well so that there are no soda. 

Salt

Another effective way to dry carpet cleaning at home is the use of kitchen salt. Pre-knock our product on the street, if it is winter, then also clean snow. After that, we entered it into the room and richly sprinkle with a shallow cook salt. Then we take a wet rag and rub the salt into a polluted pile.

The remaining grains on its surface remove with a vacuum cleaner or broom. After such actions, your carpet will glisten as new! 

Laundry soap

If you chose a household soap as a cleaning agent for carpet care, then it must be grateful. After that, the chips must be dissolved in warm water per spoon per liter of fluid. Add a spoonful of turpidar into the solution and mix everything well. 

Using a rigid brush, apply a cleaning solution onto the pile and leave for a few minutes. Go through the whole pile with a damp cloth, and then dry, as a result it should become absolutely dry. This method will allow you to remove bold stains without leaving them the trace. At the end of the procedure, if possible, it is better to endure the product to the street so that it is well there. 

Ammonia

Long pile on carpets can be cleaned of contamination with the help of ammonia alcohol. For the procedure, we take 3 spoons of powder, 5 liters of water, a spoon of ammonic alcohol, and prepare a solution. At home, we clean the carpet using the alcohol, as follows: the brush is applied to the pile, then wipe the damp cloth, and then dry. After cleaning the thing you need to dry well. 

Sauerkraut

This is perhaps the most unusual method to which many hostesses relate to fear because they believe that it is possible to spoil the carpet. You may not doubt that this is a fairly effective way that allows you to return the product a new view. 

Take the sauer cabbage cooked without adding vinegar, press brine from it and scatter on the carpet. You will immediately see the effect of cabbage, because it will absorb dust and will become dirty. Collect the used cabbage and repeat the procedure again. Perform such actions until the cabbage ceases to change its color. After such a cleaning, spending and dry the carpet. 

other methods

We reviewed the most common methods for cleaning carpet coatings used by hostess at home, but besides them there are other ways:

• In clean warm water, dissolve the washing powder, add kerosene, and treat highly polluted areas with a solution, applying it to stains. Such a means is perfect for synthetic and wool. After such a procedure, it will be necessary to regularly air the room for three days, because it is the time that the smell of kerosene is preserved;
• Surely you heard about such an agent as a tea brew. Available tea is used, which is scattered over the entire surface of the product, and then removed with a vacuum cleaner or broom. Do not use tea brew for cleaning bright carpets, because tea can leave on the spot stains;
• If you shed coffee to your favorite product, glycerin will help get rid of his traces. Moisten the pure rag in the glycerin solution and treat the contaminated area. To prepare a solution, stir the glycerol spoon in a liter of warm water;
• Gasoline and starch will help to get rid of fat stains. Means Mix to the formation of Cashitz, and apply it on a stain, carry a cloth, and remove the starch remnants;
• If you just want to give a carpet of freshness, spend it, and then clean the brush, moistened in acetic solution. When you finish the product care procedure, open the window to get rid of the unpleasant acetic odor;
• To remove solar stains, solubinate gasoline in a soap solution – 1:10, heal wood sawdust and scatter around the carpet. Leave wet sawdust on the carpet surface to complete drying, collect them and wipe the carpet with a cloth. 

Deciding to clean the carpet at home without the use of special means, be extremely careful, your actions can lead to a change in color, deformation and premature wear of the product. Trust only those methods that are already tested in practice by other hostesses!