Cleaning the carpet: home remedies and tips
Clean the carpet with a vacuum cleaner
To clear the carpet of loose dirt and dust, regular vacuuming is important. Although most vacuum cleaners have a carpet gland, so is the normal instead brush tool, because thus the carpet is knocked on and the dirt can be better absorbed.
Carpet cleaning: wash properly
Small carpets off cotton/ polyester, polyacrylic and viscose can easily in the Washing machine be plugged. at 30 degrees nothing can go wrong with a maintenance program. In addition, a suitable duty detergent or Wollwaschmittel, on the spin should be waived.
Clean high pile carpet
Regular vacuuming is important in Hochflor, a smooth carpet gland is especially good. Every two to three years is one thorough carpet cleaning highly recommended (especially at Langflor accumulates in the fringe quickly the dirt).
A small Hochflorteppich can easily in the bathtub soaked in warm water. Drain the dirty water and again the tub with water and something shampoo to fill. Important: Shaggy nDo not brush, but only let the whole thing work. Then rinse the carpet with clean water and let it dry on a carpet bar. For larger, high-pile carpets, a carpet cleaning machine should be used.
Clean wool carpet
Both wool carpets and wool and felt carpets should be cleaned gently. Best lukewarm water in one bathtub fill and Wollwaschmittel add. So that no wrinkles arise in the wool carpet, the carpet should be carefully placed in the tub and soaked? Firm scrubbing should be avoided.
to remove stains
If a stain has come on the carpet, it means: act quickly so that it does not dries. It is important that we stew the stain and do not rub around on it, because otherwise we only get it out even worse.
These home remedies help
- Baking powder: One of our most popular home remedies is baking soda? a true all-rounder. Just add baking soda to the stain with hot water and let it work (this works well with soda). Here should be neither spotted nor rubbed. Finally suck everything. Incidentally, baking soda also works wonders in the kitchen. Look here: cleaning the oven.
- Vinegar and lemon: Persistent stains can be removed by vinegar and lemon - even coffee stains and chocolate stains have no chance here. Due to the acid, the spots disappear very quickly? however, the acid also acts bleaching. For chocolate, the stain should be carefully removed from the fringes and then treated with vinegar.
- Salt: Salt absorbs liquids. So wine stains can be treated with it and the whole thing is finally sucked off. Learn more here: remove red wine stains.
- Curd soap: Kernseife is particularly suitable for artificial fiber carpets. Mix soap and water and dab with a sponge or cloth on the stain. Important: Just moisten the cloth, do not wet it. Leave to soak and dab with a dry cloth.
- Shaving cream: Shaving foam uses a brush. Handle the stain with care and brush it off very lightly. Suction? finished.
- Blotter: The candle wax has dropped on your carpet? This is where blotting paper helps. Just put it on the spot and iron it with an iron. This dissolves the wax and sticks to the paper.
Get rid of mites
Not only in our bed, also in carpets, the house dust mites romp about. Since they do not like the cold, it is helpful to lay the carpet outside overnight or even put it in the freezer. No joke! So mites have no chance. Alternatively, we will also get rid of it with soda. How this works and other tips against mites, is here: Change linen.
Impregnate carpets
To prevent dust and dirt from settling on the carpet so much, it is suitable Imprägnierspray, So we have longer friends on our carpet and not so much work in cleaning.
