How to Take Care and Clean your Carpets

One of the things that housewives love to do is to add a carpet or carpets into their house. A carpet adds beauty, elegance, and sometimes culture into their homes. Carpets have endless designs that when you enter a store to find a carpet, you might just go crazy looking for the perfect one. But in any case, having a carpet in your homes does add "spunk" or an ex-factor that other homes may not have. The problem that may occur in carpets is cleaning it.

A carpet is what we can call a collector of dust. If the carpet isn't cleaned occasionally, then you might just here your whole house sneezing due to dust. Aside from the dust, you might encounter occasional stains, especially after a night of having a few friends over. Stains are very hard to remove. You might just get so frustrated from trying to remove the stains that you might end up selling it. Luckily, here are a few tips on how to clean your carpets at home.

Normally, there are two ways to clean carpets. The first method is called dry method and the second one is called the wet method. When we talk about the dry method, the carpet stains are poured with a cleaning chemical and then vacuumed out of the carpet. Together with the stains caused by spills, dust and dirt are absorbed by the vacuum. The great thing about this is that, it doesn't damage the carpet so there is no need to worry about that. The wet method, on the other hand, takes a different approach. The carpet cleaning machine, during the process, will use steam and at the same time apply the cleaning solutions on the stain. After doing so, the machine extracts the stains from the carpet, leaving the carpet spotless and looking brand new. The one thing about the wet method is that, the person in charge of applying the steam on the carpet has to be careful because putting too much steam can cause the carpet to shrink or any damage, especially if the carpet is made of a very delicate material.

In the olden days, carpet cleaning was a very strenuous job. Companies nowadays have cleaning carpet machines that can help lessen the stress. Depending on the material of the carpet, the wet or dry method may apply. The best way to find out is to ask the furniture store you bought the carpet from. There is nothing to worry about when purchasing and taking care of carpets. With help from an expert, there shouldn't be any problem at all.