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Carpets: Clouds on Your Floor

By: Barney Garcia Floors come alive with carpets, coving every square inch with vibrant colors and textures. Nothing feels like walking soundlessly across a room that is duly carpeted. It almost feels like a cat sauntering across with its paws gliding noiselessly. Since you cannot walk on air, we need to be content with walking on carpets.

With increasing number of households looking prettier and fuller using carpets in their homes, it is ever more pragmatic to talk about its care and maintenance.

Some commandments of carpet care!

- Most of the carpet dirtying is done by dirt, stains and oils. Thorough and regular vacuum cleaning should help keep the dirt at bay. Oily soils might attract more dust and hence regular cleaning by using a vacuum cleaner certainly helps.
- Spotters used on carpets ought to be mild and make sure you use the appropriate ones. Different carpets react differently to either the acids or the alkalis that might be predominantly present in the spotter and might lose their color or the texture.
- Attend to stains as quickly as possible. Most of the stains can be cleared by using one cleaning agent or the other within the first few days. The more the stain gets to react with the carpet, the tougher it is to clear it.
- Never over use shampoos, spotters or detergent agents because excessive use of detergents can leave a residue not removable by vacuum cleaners.
- When you see a spot on the carpet, the proper procedure is to scrape it towards the middle of the carpet and then tamp it into a towel or a cloth using some tamping device.
- Over- wetting carpet can lead to carpets losing color, shrinkages, and burnout and adhesion problems.
- Residuals are tough to take out, however do try and take them out, that way most of the dirt removal is taken care of. It also helps in getting rid of organisms within the carpet.
- Don't do the mistake of coating the carpet since it might help accentuate the dirt problem all the more. Instead of getting rid of dirt, it actually glues it all the more to the carpet. Either try the extraction or scrubbing again or wait until the next cleaning cycle.
- Vacuuming thoroughly is so important that it warrants another mention. Vacuum thoroughly and regularly

Keeping these points in mind, recreate clouds on your living room floor. Carpets are like non-living pets. They can't talk but they need to be pampered.