To maintain order and freshness in the house, carpets and rugs need to be cleaned at least twice a year. If the summer is considered an ideal time to conduct a chemical attack on the product, then in winter it is best to treat the carpet with snow. Contrary to popular belief, there may be several options for the approach, if desired, manipulation can be carried out even at home. Snow cleaning allows you to quickly and accurately restore the purity and freshness of household items, get rid of harmful microorganisms and ticks.
Regardless of the type of manipulation, the following rules should be adhered to:
- Processing is carried out only with loose, soft snow without a peel. In this case, the mass should not be in the melted state, you can not allow the carpet to get wet.
- It is best to use a freshly dumped product, which has not yet been covered with slags and gas exhausts.
- Before the procedure, carpets and rugs need to be vacuumed, you can even knock them out.
- The active treatment step should be carried out as quickly as possible. If the product is very large, it is better to clean it in parts so that the pile does not get wet.
Tip: Coping with a massive carpet yourself is quite difficult. It is better to handle a large company, distributing all the plots, then the risk of getting things wet is minimal.
- When processing a carpet with snow, do not use industrial or home-made detergents. If the product is too dirty, it must first be cleaned chemically and after a couple of days thereafter exposed to snow.
If the manipulation is carried out correctly, the positive changes will be immediately apparent. After this, it is recommended to hold the product in the frost for at least 24 hours, after hanging it on a solid support.
Options for cleaning the carpet with snow - the peculiarities of carrying out the manipulations of
If on the street you can find an impressive area of clean, not trampled snow, then it is better to conduct the procedure in the fresh air. It will look like this:
- First spread the carpet face down, abundantly and evenly sprinkled with its snow. We take a plastic punch out and begin to beat the product over its entire surface with quick movements.
- We shake out the remains of snow, transfer the product to a clean area and spread it up. Also sprinkle the surface with snow and begin to beat out with intense short movements. At the same time, we try not to walk a lot on the nap.
- Then again shake the snow, pour new and carefully, but carefully sweep it with a broom or a brush with elastic bristles. Small carpets after that enough times to shake off, large will have to be thrown over the horizontal bar and carefully knocked out.
If you can not take a massive product out onto the street, it can be cleaned with snow and at home, but you need to do it right, otherwise there is a risk of decaying the pile and the base.
- First you need to prepare. In the chosen spacious room we lay the floor with an oilcloth, it should be slightly larger than the carpet in the area. We close the door and open the windows so that the room is well ventilated, and the temperature drops a little.
- We collect a bucket or two snow, pour a thin layer on the pile and slightly knock out. We collect the remnants of the product with a vacuum cleaner, we only need to make sure that the model is not afraid of water. In extreme cases, you can do with a broom, but there will be a lot of dirt even with oilcloth.
- Turn the thing pile down, the oilcloth should be changed to clean and carry out the same manipulations. Knock out the wrong side carefully, so as not to deform the pile much.
- Turn the carpet over again, laying it on a clean floor. For some time it is not recommended to walk on it, you need to wait until the object is completely dry.
The second method is best to clean massive carpets, in extreme cases they can be folded up to half a roll and processed by sections.
Do I need to knock out carpets on snow or enough surface treatment?
Some landladies doubt that carpets with long nap or delicate materials need to be knocked out. They prefer to brush it only with a brush. Such an approach has the right to exist, but it will be possible to achieve an optimal result only if the approaches are repeated many times. Even after this, a considerable amount of dust is likely to remain between the villi. In this case, the product will have time to get wet through.
If you use punching from soft rubberized plastic for impact, then the deformation can be not afraid, and the positive effect will be obvious. In extreme cases, you can hang the carpet on a stand, take a terry towel, roll it in the snow, cover the carpet and knock the thing through such a layer. This approach is more troublesome, but quite effective and absolutely safe. Only need to work as quickly as possible, regularly changing the towels.