Shampooing Your Carpets

Do you know that that the easiest way to clean carpets is to clean it with an aerosol spray foam especially made for carpets that are sold in supermarkets? Make sure the windows are open to ventilate the room and speed up the drying.

If you can, do remove all furnishings that are placed on top of the carpet for even cleaning. If there are items that cannot be removed, wwrap them with aluminnum foil wrappers around the legs. Vacuum the carpet thoroughly, especially heavily soiled parts.

Shake the can vigorously and spray a small foam on an inconspicuous part of the carpet and see if the color didn't change. Give it at least 10 minutes, if there's no change proceed to spray foam over the entire carpet. When the carpet is dry, it is time to vacuum the entire carpet.

Repair a Carpet Burn

What do you do when a portion of your carpet got burned? You don't need to throw the carpet away. Save it by trimming away the burnt fibers with scissors. Carefully dab rubber cement into the hole with a toothpick. Cut matching tufts of carpet from the same carpet in an unseen area. This is very much like skin grafting, without the possibility of regeneration. Dab the ends of the cut tufts with rubber cement and insert them in the hole.

Work the tufts upright with a pin. When it is dry, use the pin and carefully blend them with the surrounding pile.

Stair Carpets

How do you prolong the life of your stair carpet? Upon the carpet's istallation, make sure that you fold an extra foot of length under and against one of the two risers at the top of the stairs. Periodically lift the entire carpet and shift it downward an inch or two at a time. As you do this, fold it under or against the lowest riser or trim it off.

Happy carpet cleaning! :-)