A beautiful outdoor carpet with long and fluffy pile is an incredibly stylish and pleasant interior detail. It creates an atmosphere of coziness, warmth and comfort. It's so nice to sit down with a cup of tea and listen to the rain music outside the window. Yes, and children are very fond of playing on such a soft surface.
Features of carpets with long pile
Attractive for its softness and massage effect carpet, for all its attractiveness can not boast of durability, so it is preferable to lay it in places with minimal patency.
For example, round and oval carpets with long napes look good in the bedroom, in some areas of the living room (by the fireplace) or in the room of a teenager.
A long pile (30-80 mm) delays a lot of dust and dirt, which is not always saved by frequent cleaning. Because these carpets are contraindicated to allergic people and tiny children.
In appearance, you can distinguish 4 types of long nap:
- Cat-loops - a multilevel combined pile from 40 to 80 mm in length. In it, high loops are cut, and low loops are left in the form of loops.
- Frize - the so-called "curly" pile, strongly twisted, 30-50 mm long.
- Saxony - split pile of twisted strands of the same height from 40 to 80 mm.
- Shag (sheggi) - the most popular kind of nap, is a variety of Saxony. A distinctive feature - the threads in it of different thicknesses.
How to care for a carpet with a long pile?
Like any other carpet, long-bodied has the property of getting dirty. The difficulty of cleaning it is in a long nap. If the carpet is synthetic, then it will be relatively easy to clean it. You will be helped by various means for carpets like "Vanisha" or home recipes based on salt, vinegar, soda, ammonia and so on. More complex pollution, not amenable to home cleaning, can be overcome by giving the carpet to dry cleaning.
Cleaning the carpet with a long nap should always be carried out in two stages - first you need to beat the dust out of it, and only then apply a cleanser. At the same time, you need to get rid of dust in the long-carpet regularly - preferably every week.
If you do not need to clean the stains, but simply refresh the bright colors of the carpet, you can use table salt and liquid soap. Spread the carpet to sprinkle from the spray with clean water, then sprinkle with fine salt, let it absorb the moisture. Add 1-2 tbsp. Spoons of liquid soap in a bucket of warm water, moisten in this solution a broom and comb it with pile. After that, you need to put the carpet on the street, hang it in a pile and knock it out well. After the final drying, you can return the carpet to the place.
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