Normally, we do not have the luxury of time and money to clean carpets everyday. But we do have a lot of options to keep it clean always and appear brand new over a period of time. In some cases, people are to blame when a beautiful carpet is damaged. Sometimes, we have the weather to blame on and other times, pets are the usual suspects. The most common methods that people use in carpet cleaning are categorised into two; steam cleaning and chemical cleaning. However, any other types of cleaning methods will have no effect if people do not live smart.
Smart Habits
In this category, a lot of ideas really involve people. This is because they cause foot traffic, utilise the carpet, and spend time in the carpet. Many articles mention that there are different negative habits which contribute to dirty carpets. Thus, cleaning carpets involve identifying roots of the problem. Here’s how.
1. Teach and discipline your kids to eat and drink properly. One cannot always say that kids are kids but what about the carpets? Kids must be taught that they should prevent dropping crumbs and food in the carpet and that they should drink their water, soda, and juice properly by not dripping the liquid from their mouth down to their body and making it land on the carpet.
2. Learn various tips on how to clean the carpet periodically. Soft cleaning which involves vacuuming regularly and involving certain techniques such as going inside to outside, creating patterns of vacuuming carpet areas, running over several times, and a lot more. Hard cleaning is equivalent to sanitising the carpets because dirt is difficult to remove and total elimination of bacteria and germs or etc. is quite difficult. It involves using chemicals; thus, the reason for not doing it frequently like vacuum cleaning.
Smart Thinking
Weather and pets are issues and concerns which we have no control over but can only anticipate things about them. Here are some examples.
1. It is very helpful on your part if you take time to read and watch weather forecasts. Doing so will help you be aware of when the next heavy downpour will occur or learn if there are storms and typhoons affecting your area. As such, you will be able to prepare home-made pavements for you and other members of the family to walk so that your carpets will not be soiled, mudded, and dirtied heavily.
2. Pets are trainable. Train them not to pee on your carpets or discourage them to play with it. In addition, there are lots of ideas such as using plants and scents to drive or keep pets away from your carpet.
The key therefore to maintain your carpet spot free and odor free is to live smart. These smart ideas will help you save time, cleaning it very often as required and hire professional carpet cleaning services very often.