How to Maintain Your Carpets and Rugs

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It is very critical to keep the carpets or the rugs at your home in almost new-like condition, particularly if you have kids at your home. Somehow or other, they are going to spill either food or colors and your favourite carpet is going to get stained forever. So, it is always suggested that if you have kids at home, you should better go for inexpensive carpets and rugs, which you can throw away or exchange after using couple of years. But not only the kids, staining of the carpets can also be unintentionally done by the adults. So you have to find out a routine carpet cleaning schedule to maintain the color and finish for longer period of time.

Make sure that you vacuum the carpet or rugs at least once in a week. You will get much better result, if you can do it twice or thrice in a week. But it may not be possible, in case you are working. Use a good carpet cleaning powder to sprinkle all over, before you start the vacuum machine. Thoroughly vacuum the carpet to remove all the dust, dirt and sand particles. Once you are done, you will get back the lovely soft and silky feel of the carpet. On top of this, you will require professional cleaning of the rugs and carpets at least once a year to maintain the sheer shine and lustrous.

But getting the carpets regularly cleaned does not ensure that it is going to remain stain-free. Stains can occur at any time in various ways, but the sooner you pick it off the better the result. You should keep different types of stain removers handy, so that you can use it when necessary. Plain water can also be effective to clean the stains from food particles, colors etc. Whenever you find anything on the carpet, which can make the stain, you should immediately remove it, wash the area with wet washcloths and let it dry. In case of bulky messes like spilling of large amount of food or throw ups etc, you need to clean the mess first before wiping with wet cloth. Although it is messy and dirty job to clean, however if your carpets are in healthy shine, you will have much less pain to wash off the portions of the stains.