In this blog entry, our professional New Jersey carpet cleaning team will detail the best way to maintain and keep your carpet in good condition after you receive your NJ carpet cleaning service.
- Stay off your carpet until it’s fully dry. You can make the carpet dry faster by turning on ceiling fans.
- Wait to put furniture back on the carpet until after it has fully dried. When you move furniture onto a wet carpet, it can make the carpet area under the furniture take a longer time to dry and even potentially cause color transfer or resoiling on the carpet
- Make sure to clean up any spills or stains as soon as they occur. The longer a stain sits on a carpet the harder it will be to get rid of it. We recommend blotting up spilled sand stains to soak it up, and avoiding rubbing which can push it deeper into carpet fibers.
- Regularly vacuum even if it doesn’t look like the carpet needs it. This removes dirt and particulate matter that you might not see, as well as allergens and other polluting substances.
- We recommend taking your shoes off as soon as you enter your home to lower the chances of bacteria or allergens entering your carpet fibers.
- Install a doormat in front of your door to help guests minimize dirt that can potentially bring in our home.
- Change your furniture layout every few months to make new traffic areas in your home. This will reduce the chances of high traffic areas in your rug or carpet wearing down more quickly than other areas of your carpet.
- Consider applying a carpet protectant applied by your professional carpet cleaning technician after they complete the carpet cleaning process. This can help repel stains or dirt from soaking into carpet fibers. Carpet protectant should be applied yearly especially on highly trafficked areas of your home. We recommend the ONLY option for environmentally friendly and non toxic carpet protectant substances.