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Maintaining Your Carpet Year-Round

Well, unfortunately there is no magic involved in taking care of carpet, and to be sure the quality of the carpeting, installation, cushion, and traffic conditions all come into play with how good the carpet is going to look over time. There are many things that you can easily do to assure that you are doing your best when it comes to keeping your carpeting in the best shape possible.

HERE ARE SOME GUIDELINES & SUGGESTIONS.

Probably the singular, most effective way for you to begin to take care of your carpeting is by following a very stringent vacuuming schedule. Vacuuming removes the dry soils from carpet that over time dull and scratch the thermoplastic synthetic fibers. When you vacuum, make sure you don't just do the visible soil: there is a lot of soiling that is there and some that you cannot even see. On the average, it takes about fifteen feet of walking into a home from outside to totally remove the dirt from one's shoes, therefore make sure you attend to those areas more carefully.

Also when you vacuum, don't be always repeating a particular directions of strokes. Use a varience in the way you do it... that way you will not go on the direction of the certain lay that the nap will have. For example, try vacuuming north to south, then east to west, west to east, south to north etc. Do all of this in one session. And when I say be regular in vacuuming, ideally you should be vacuuming at least once weekly or more thoroughly, and daily or every other day will not hurt. Do it as much as your home needs with respect to the traffic you get. Consider using a pile rake too, as these will seperate the yarns, prevent matting and crushing to a degree, and just make the carpet look a little better. They're very easy to use and worth the inexpensice investment.

Also, keep an eye on areas with high traffic try to keep those areas well vacuum. If you have a carpet off the kitchen floor, or near a slate entry way, make sure you keep those areas real clean. If your kitchen floor has an oily film on it from cooking, then you can be sure that the oily film will be on your carpet too....if not by foot traffic then just by airflow when the oil was airborn, if you wait until it's noticeable it becomes more difficult to clean.

Keep your shoes off when you walk on your carpet. If you have an asphalt driveway at your home, you are walking oil onto your carpet each time you walk from one to the other. Oily films attract dirt and your carpet will look soiled real quick. Plus you will be avoiding sand and grit from getting into the carpet, which will only lessen its life. Carpet is a textile and is subject to wear and poor appearance, even though it is designed as a floorcovering.

Remove spots www.freshxtouchofmagic.com as soon as you notice them. The longer the spots remain on the carpet, the more difficult they will be to remove clean traffic areas as soon as they become noticeable or even beforehand. That way you will not be doing salvage cleaning each time you clean those high soil traffic areas. If you run into tough difficult spots and stains call a professional carpet cleaner and spend what you need to so you can keep those carpets looking beautiful year-round. If you rather do it yourself then purchase a good quality carpet hot water extractor so you can affectively pre-spray  and extract those darker soil areas a good wet vacuum system will affectively extractor the excess water from the carpet.

A professional quality carpet extractor will brighten the yarns fibers as well as remove soils that always seems to irritate you every time you look at it. All you have to do is mix the proper solution with hot water as directed by the manufacturer and apply a small amount with a brush and get the spray and spotting solution into the dirty yarns work it in than extract. With a little hard work you will be amazed at what you can do especially when you see the before and after results.

But If you're like many of us busy you should consider hiring a certified carpet cleaning professional. My advice is to interview and get referrals of satisfied customers and make sure they arrive on time and guarantee their work.

Tools you should consider for do-it- yourself:

It's a good idea to invest in a quality spraying device, like a real good pump up sprayer. That way you can apply the presprays, etc. to the carpet and avoid useless spray bottles when you are doing a large area. The advantage to a good pump sprayer is you will also be able to have a precise control over the amount of the product you apply to the traffic areas.

I found using hand held spray bottles are a waste of time and money some spayer heads cannot handle chemicals and start leaking after the first or second use. Get a pump up type that is used for gardens and the like. You can get a pretty decent one at most hardware stores for about $15.00.

Here's what the leading carpet manufacturers suggest:

http://www.freshxpros.com/manufacturers.php

By John M. BetanCourt

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