How to wash the carpet at home?

Any carpet is contaminated sooner or later. Consider how to wash a woolen or synthetic carpet at home, so as not to resort to the help of dry cleaning or car wash.

Washing the carpet at home

To wash the carpet at home in the apartment you can use soda or salt by dry washing.

For this, soda (or salt) is distributed evenly along the plane of the carpet. Then it must be rubbed with a brush. The grains of soda become darker, absorbing the impurities from the yarn. After this, the soda should be left on the nap for 10 minutes and only after that start vacuuming the product.

Wash the carpet easily with a special powder or foam. In general, the instruction is as follows: distribute the foam on the fleecy part of the carpet, rub it into it and leave it for two hours. Then vacuum the carpet.

Such cleaning is acceptable for products with slight contamination. When on a cover old strong spots were formed, it is necessary to resort to wet cleaning with application of soda, a powder, a citric acid.

Having dissolved a fourth of a glass of soda in three liters of water, and adding a tablespoon of detergent, you can get a wonderful cleanser. The resulting mixture with a spray gun needs to be spread on the surface and left for 30 minutes. For more thorough washing, you can rub the solution into the pile with a brush. After that, clean the product with a damp brush with dirt, then vacuum the carpet. If you supplement the composition with the juice of one lemon, you can return the product to the former brightness of the paints. After a damp cleaning method, the carpet needs to be dried well, so that a musty smell does not appear. Especially wet areas can be dried with a hairdryer.

Careful cleaning of the carpet without the use of aggressive agents will help restore a fresh attractive look and preserve the product and pile for a long time.