How to clean the carpet at home quickly and efficiently?

Guests should come to you and, until their arrival, remain a matter of minutes, and your carpet has, to put it mildly, not the most pleasant exteriorview? If you use tips on how to clean the carpet at home quickly and efficiently, from this article, you can tidy your floor covering in 15-30 minutes.

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Folk methods

For proper care of floor mats, you do not need to buy a whole arsenal of household chemicals. It is possible to do with improvised cheap means, and the effect of them will be no worse.

Ordinary soda

Baking soda perfectly absorbs odors, and as well absorbs dirt, dust. To clean the carpet quickly and efficiently at home with this universal cleaning agent:

1. Fill the entire dirty surface with 5 tbsp.l.soda.
2. After 30-40 minutes, carefully vacuum or sweep with a broom.

Piles will have a neat appearance and will be clean.

Important! By the same principle, you can clean even the snow-white carpet, only replacing the soda with a fine salt, starch or fresh grated potatoes.

Ammonia

Excellent proved to be an effective and cheap stain remover:

1. Mix 10 ml of ammonia together with 1 tsp.any washing powder and 0.5 liters of water.
2. Apply the liquid solution to the stain and then rub it with a soft brush.
3. Dry with a dry cloth and allow to dry.

Lemon juice

Lemon juice erodes even the most resistant contaminants that are left from ink, berries, dried mud. To clean the carpet from dirt at home:

1. In undiluted form, apply to a contaminated area.
2. Set aside for 1.5-2 hours.
3. Then, using a sponge of warm water, treat the cleaning site so that the carpet does not remain sticky.
4. Dry your carpet at room temperature.

We use soap soap

Household soap can cope with almost all stains: coffee, tea, wine, but it can make you rubbed with pile. Therefore, you can not directly soap carpet, it is best to use a much more gentle soap solution - 5 grams of grated soap for 500 ml of water.

To use it:

1. Use a brush to disperse the solution in a dirty place, wash it lightly, and then re-treat.
2. After washing, gently wipe the carpet with a slightly damp cloth.
   

Sauerkraut

Sauerkraut is one of the most environmentally friendly methods for restoring carpet attractiveness. To clean the carpet quickly and efficiently at home, use this unusual method:

1. Take the most common sauerkraut, which does not contain vinegar.
2. Press it, rinse, so that there is no strong unpleasant odor.
3. Pour a thin layer of cabbage over the carpet.
4. Brush, rolling sauerkraut over the surface of the carpet.
5. When the cabbage has a gray shade, collect it with a broom, rinse and scatter again.
6. Repeat the procedure until the cabbage is clean.
7. Then assemble it, let the carpet dry.

Important! Cabbage helps not only to clean small dirt from the floor covering, but also to collect wool from animals.

Table vinegar

In that case, when you do not know what to clean the carpet at home, in 700 ml of water, dilute 2 tbsp.l.table vinegar.

Using a brush and vinegar solution, with intense rhythmic movements, start cleaning the contaminated area.

Important! The smell of vinegar after cleaning your carpet will go away after a very careful airing.

Cool water and snow

With brushes and cold water, you can clean up spots that are left of blood, traces of animals and fresh mud for a few minutes:

1. Using intensive movements, clean your carpet, not forgetting to dip the brush in the water.
2. After the procedure, thoroughly dry the product.

Important! Do not use until completely dry.

Very good refreshes and cleans even a snow-white carpet with a fairly long nap from dust ordinary snow. If you can:

1. Put your carpet on the street, then beat it with a broom or with a stick.
2. After this, by the same broom, on the carpet, map out a small layer of snow, and then quickly clean and again map the snow on the carpet.
3. After coming home, let the carpet dry thoroughly.

Important! And if you leave it for 24 hours in the cold, then absolutely all the dust mites will die.

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Mechanical and chemical carpet cleaner

Folk remedies are good because they are always at hand and allow you to get the desired effect quickly enough. But still their application requires some effort on your part. Therefore, in practice, few people do without home appliances of special purpose and professional chemistry. What do you need in the house to clean the carpet quickly and effectively?

Vanish

A very famous bottle of bright pink color, which contains an easily soaped concentrated solution. With "Vanish" the task, by which to clean the carpet, by itself disappears - a strong foam of this remedy eliminates even the most difficult pollution.

Important! The disadvantage of this tool is two: high cost, and also its volume is small - it suffices only for 2-3 full-fledged cleaning of the carpet.

Vacuum cleaner

Vacuum cleaner ordinary( any model you like and suitable for you at the price) is the very basis of cleaning of any carpets. With a vacuum cleaner, cleaning begins and if the dirt does not succumb to the suction, then additional options are available.

Kerher

Vacuum cleaners, steam cleaners and mini-washings of this brand are designed to clean the contamination of various types of carpets at home. These devices are very compact and easily transported by hand, they will do all the dirty work for you and thus give rest to your tired hands.

However, their price is their main disadvantage. If you are ready to pay a wonderful amount of money for this miracle of technology, you can consider that carpet cleaning with Kercher from now on will be a joy to you.

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All kinds of carpets and differences in their cleaning technology

The tools we listed for you are not global. Each of the carpets differs in its material, its structure, and the result of using even ordinary soap will be different. In order to know what to clean the carpet from stains at home, we recommend that you pay attention to the recommendations for looking after different types of carpets and floor coverings of various shades.

Long pile

Carpets with long pile are characterized by the most laborious cleaning process. In the very base of the nap clogged: hair, wool, but if you scatter something - then even using a vacuum cleaner, for one cleaning cycle you will not get to completely and completely clean the carpet quickly and efficiently.

Important! You can not rub the long nap with a stiff brush, because you can ruin the adhesive base.

The best way to remove stains from a similar product is to use soap foam. It penetrates into the middle of the pile and dissolves all the dirt. Next, vacuum the carpet, and if you have a Kercher steam cleaner, walk through the soiled areas of the carpet.

Short nap

The most common type of carpets is with a short long nap. You can clean them with a damp and dry cleaning. This kind of floor decorative coatings, as a rule, is not whimsical, the pollution is removed from it quickly enough.

If you want to slightly revitalize the shade and give it a more neat look:

• In the atomizer, dilute the water mixed with the shampoo, as well as a small amount of ammonia.
• Before cleaning your carpet at home, to disinfect the surface, you can top up the tea tree extract in the amount of 1-2 ml.
• Treat the entire product with a carpet, dry it at room temperature, and then vacuum it.
  

Carpets made of natural materials

This kind of carpets is subject to the most gentle cleaning process. For example:

1. Silk does not tolerate moisture, which is why a silk carpet can only be cleaned using a vacuum cleaner.
2. Wool, sheepskin, and also fur - are cleaned with a soft brush and baking soda.

Natural fiber is much more prone to frequent dirt appearances, because it can be attacked by: mole, if there is a large accumulation of dust under the pile, mold or fungus - it can appear in a room with a high humidity percentage, and during frequent wet cleanings.

Carpets made of synthetic fabrics

Synthetics are unpretentious, but the service life of synthetic carpets is not eternal - after 6-7 years of constant use the fabric looks untidy and crumpled. The pile, which is pressed by the sofa, can not restore its appearance, after a heavy press the carpet will remain so forever.

Its synthetic carpet does not lose its color, and also does not burn out. It is enough to vacuum it 2 times a week, and if necessary, treat it with a brush with a soda solution.

Dark and light carpets

A light carpet can not be cleaned using lemon juice, since it can form yellow spots. If you choose from inexpensive means, it is better to use the shavings of laundry soap. Soap solution will allow you to wash even the most polluted areas, dissolve a sufficiently large number of spots in a few hours.

If you need a faster result, the treatment with "Vanish" will save. Apply foam to the contaminated area, and after 5-6 minutes apply a second portion of the diluted foam to the light pile. Allow to dry, and then dry the carpet.

Important! Dark carpets are not allowed to be cleaned using starch, soda, or potatoes, because they eliminate pollution, but they leave white stains that are incredibly difficult to dispose of.

In this case, the most suitable substance is ammonia, which you must dilute with water and brush spread over the entire surface of the carpet. The pile will become softer, and the spots will completely disappear.

Now, after reading the information in this article, you know exactly how to clean the carpet at home quickly and efficiently. Means homework will be more pleasant and not so tedious.