Are you worried about the smell of your carpet?
Keeping your carpet clean is simple enough, but not everyone does enough. Youâre putting yourself at risk for several health problems if you donât keep things clean.
If all youâre doing is vacuuming every now and again, you arenât doing enough. You wonât only end up with dirty carpet, but smelly carpets as well.
Follow the five tips below to keep better care of your carpet.
1. Take Off Your Shoes
Have you ever looked at the bottom of your shoes and looked at all the dirt on them? If you donât require yourself and visitors to take their shoes off before they step on your carpet, youâre allowing more dirt than you need to into your home.
Keeping shoes off your carpet also increases your carpetâs lifespan. The treads on shoes are rough and wear down your carpet faster than usual.
2. Vacuum Regularly
If youâre only vacuuming every few months, you arenât keeping your carpet clean enough. Itâs easy for dirt to accumulate on your carpet, so you need to develop a regular cleaning schedule for it.
Try to find a few minutes several times a week to get your vacuuming done. When you do this, watch your speed. The faster run your vacuum across your carpet, the more dirt you miss.
Take things slowly, so you pick up as much dirt as possible.
3. Sprinkle Baking Soda Before Vacuuming
Before you start your vacuum cleaner, sprinkle baking soda across your carpet and let it sit for at least half an hour.
Baking soda is a deodorizer, so when you let it set on your carpet before vacuuming, you are helping your carpet stay fresh. Once you let it set, use your vacuum to clean your carpet.
4. Deep Clean Several Times Per Year
Vacuuming is good at getting a surface level clean, but it doesnât always get everything that is deep in your carpet. A deep clean with a carpet cleaner will get rid of everything a standard cleaning canât get rid of.
Either purchase or rent a carpet cleaner to get this done.
5. Hire a Professional
Not everyone may have the time to take care of their carpet. If this is you, then you can hire a carpet cleaning service to do the work for you.
You wonât only save time when hiring a professional, but you will also end up with a cleaner carpet. A professional knows all the tricks to get your carpet clean.
If you donât want to spend the time to learn these, hire someone that already knows what to do.
Donât Let Smelly Carpets Take Over Your Home
Keeping your home clean takes a lot of work. If you donât do the work, then you could end up with smelly carpets in your home.
But when you follow the steps above, you can keep your carpet in good health.
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