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How To Clean Your Carpet
Naturally? |
Carpets have lots of merits as a flooring material, but most
carpet experts disagree. Why? Because carpet is the only
carpeting material that can harbor all sorts of bacteria and
germs that other flooring materials like hardwood floor and
ceramics won't. Despite these flaws, stepping onto a warm,
fuzzy carpet feels good than chilly hardwood floor
especially in the morning when humidity is high here in
Singapore.
Carpet is not a bad flooring material, how you maintain it
is what will determine whether it will harbor the germs and
bacteria or not. Luckily, there is a way you can be able to
make your carpet free of these attacker as you maintain its
original look with few common households products. You can
decide to use the commercial carpet cleaning solution, and
they effectively remove stains, but some of them have strong
odors that may not be suitable for your pet or your kids.
You do not have to spend money every time you have a regular
vacuuming schedule. Make your own homemade cleaners
solutions. For aggressive carpet cleaning please engage a
professional home carpet cleaning services.
Here is how to clean your carpet naturally using common
homemade products.
1. Vacuum first, always!
The best thing anyone can do to their carpet is doing a
regular cleaning by vacuuming. Even before you call a
professional cleaner it is important to vacuum first to make
sure that the cleaning expert concentrates on cleaning the
deeper entrenched dirt. Experts recommend that you do a
weekly cleaning schedule so that you can be able to keep
dirt at a minimum and most importantly, to prevent dirt from
working their way down to the inner part of the carpet where
it would be very hard to get them out. When vacuuming,
ensure that you move the furniture’s so that it would be
easy to reach the hard to reach spots.
2. Prepare natural carpet fresheners
Natural carpet freshener can prolong the freshness of your
carpet and making some is very easy. All you need is
essential oil and baking soda. Follow this guideline;
• For one cup of baking soda, add approximately ten drops of
essential oils.
• If you own a pet, add a cup of borax so that you can be
able to keep fleas at bay.
• Lightly rub the above mixture paste into your carpet and
especially over the stain and let sit for at least an hour.
I would suggest that you use a glove when applying to
avoiding touching the poop if that’s the stain you are
eliminating.
• Vacuum the dried paste or mixture. The baking soda can
pick moisture, so make sure do this on a dry day. Vacuuming
at this time should remove odor, stains, and all the dirt
that the normal vacuuming usually miss.
• Also, be sure to keep the children and the pets off the
carpet when the mixture is not dry.
3. Pre –treat remaining stains.
Pre-treat any remaining stain with an equal mixture of
vinegar and water as that of baking soda and essential oil.
If the stains are tough to remove, (this usually happens on
light colored carpets), try a mixture of salt and lemon
juice. It is advisable that you do a test with a mild
cleaner solution at the tip of the carpet before trying the
more 'harsh' homemade cleaners to the entire carpet.
You can scrub the stain with the staining mixture on an old
towel and dap as much moisture as you can. You can place the
towel on top of the stain spot and with the use an iron on
the 'steam setting for about 30 seconds.
You might find yourself repeating this process depending on
how long the stain has stuck or how stubborn it is, but with
persistence, you can get an impressive transformation to
your carpet.
4. Bust out the steam cleaner.
It is advisable that you use very hot water to remove stains
or dirt. You may need to fill the soap reservoir with the
cleaning solution the natural solution (if you do not want
to use hot water), but water will remove much of the
accumulated grime. The natural solution here should be water
and vinegar mixed in equal proportions. For high traffic
area, you might need to use a high ratio of water and
vinegar. 1 cup of white vinegar to 2.5 gallons of water is
recommended for a deep cleaning. If you think your carpet is
going to have a bad odor mostly like salad dressing, you can
add your essential oils.
If you check your cleaning machine, it has two modes. When
you depress a button, you release hot water, when you
release it you suck the water back. Concentrate on the
second mode more, at lease of your time. Soak the carpet as
many times as you can; three or four times.
Note: It is advisable to clean the entire carpet following
the cleaner manufacturer instructions.
5. Let the carpet dry completely
It is imperative to let the carpet dry completely. As noted
above, to steam clean your carpet, It is important to choose
a warm, dry day with low humidity. Opening the windows to
allow sufficient air flow helps the carpet to dry very
quickly.
Once the carpet is dry, you can bring the furniture back to
their position, and it is advisable that you put aluminium
foil under the legs of the furniture to avoid bleeding onto
the carpet. At this particular time, try to keep off pets or
children walking on the carpet to avoid staining the carpet
again.
Key points to remember.
• Do not forget to dispose of the water responsibly.
• Test any natural cleaning product on a small area
especially at the corner of the carpet.
• Use essential oil if you get a salad dressing smell but
if the smell should go within a day or two.
• Let the carpet dry, you have to keep off children and pets
from the carpet until it is completely dry.
• Do not make the carpet too wet always. Remember the
machine mode. Concentrate on the drying mode than the
depressing mode.
We all know that for each and every toxic cleaner we use,
there is a heavy on the environment. When we use toxic
products, we risk the health of our loved ones and even our
kids. Some of the cleaning products we get are harmful to
the human being, so please check the label on these products
or use the guideline above to be on a safer side. I you
cannot be able to make the natural cleaning product, why
don’t you tell your professional cleaning company to use
eco-friendly carpet cleaning products? |
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