When you invest in carpet for you house, it is critical that you know how to properly care for it, to both ensure its longevity and to keep its appearance looking good.
When caring for your carpets, vacuuming is very important.
However, vacuuming alone is insufficient when it comes to comprehensive carpet care for your home.
Carpets have a tendency to hold everything in, including dirt, stains, odors, mites, hair and dust.
The only way to completely remove some of these items is through deep cleaning, no matter what kind of carpets you have.
Quality Of Carpet Material Usually, different carpets are handled differently.
There are several factors that influence this.
One of the most important ones is the carpet's quality.
For example, cheaper carpets might not hold up as well to frequent cleaning as a wool rug.
This is due to the fact that every time the carpet is cleaned, the fibers are broken down a bit.
Therefore, you can clean higher quality carpets more frequently.
Lower quality carpets need to be cleaned less frequently.
Exposure Another factor that needs to be considered when deciding how frequently to clean the carpet, is how much dirt the carpet is exposed to.
The carpets that are in areas with high traffic definitely will need to be cleaned more frequently to prevent pollutants and dirt from accumulating that can contaminate your home.
Frequent cleaning will also help the carpets stay looking good.
Therefore, it is very important to make sure that the high-traffic areas in your house have dirt-resistant and high quality carpets that can hold up to frequent cleaning.
You also need good quality carpets in areas with high traffic because if dirt accumulates on the carpeting, friction is generated between the carpet and shoes walking on it.
Ultimately, the friction wears down the carpet fibers, accelerating the process of wear and tear.
Good quality carpeting that has strong fibers has the ability to withstand the friction.
So to avoid having to replace the carpet frequently, a high quality one needs to be selected to begin with.
Deep Cleaning Schedule In general, carpets should be deep cleaned at least once a year no matter what the quality of the carpeting is or how little or much dirt they are exposed to.
If you happen to live by yourself and the only thing dirtying your carpets are environmental factors, then that should be sufficient.
However, if you have children or pets, you might need to clean your carpets more frequently.
Depending on how much traffic the carpets receive, you might want to consider cleaning them every 6 or 9 months.
If you smoke in addition to having pets and kids, it might be necessary to deep clean every 3 months, so high quality carpets will need to be purchased.
Keep in mind, carpets are meant to hide dirt.
They are designed for that purpose.
So when you happen to notice dirty or dark areas, by that time it's probably very dirty and in need of an immediate cleaning.
However, it is better not to wait until the carpet has gotten to this state of soiling before cleaning to minimize the amount of wear and tear that results just from dirt accumulation.
If you clean your carpets regularly, they will continue looking great and serve you for a very long time.