Regular vacuuming is very important to your home carpet cleaning routine. Without regular vacuuming, your carpet can become dull and full of allergens in a short time. Even a new carpet contains dust and other foreign particles that need vacuuming soon after it is installed. Of course no one likes dirt on their carpet and vacuuming removes it in most cases just fine. But not vacuuming can do serious damage to your carpet in other not-so-obvious ways. (more…)
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Should you shampoo your carpet, steam clean it, or just vacuum it? There is a lot of confusion on what ’s best for cleaning your carpet. Let’s take a look at the terms, and then take a look at what’s involved in actually getting your carpet clean again.
Steam cleaning is actually a misnomer. Technically, steam cleaning is really hot water extraction, which is something you can easily do yourself at home. For reasons we’ll soon see, you are actually better off doing it yourself.
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Mud stains. Sooner or later you will get them on your carpet. Either your dog will come barreling into your home after playing in a muddy backyard or your kids will forget to take their shoes off before entering your house on a rainy day. Don’t panic though. Mud is one of the easier stains for you to remove.
The worst thing you can do is grab spotter and try to clean up the mud stain right away. All this does is spread the stain and allow it to penetrate deep into your carpeting. So resist the urge to go straight for the spotter. So what should you do?
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