7 Effective Carpet Cleaning Methods You Should Know

Do you want to live in a healthy, attractive, neat and clean house? Your answer should be positive. Here, clean carpet is a very important part such a lovely house. But your carpet may get spotted and dirty. Here is the 7 most effective method of carpet cleaning for you. Using these methods you can easily keep your carpet neat and clean. 

1. Steam cleaning

Steam cleaning is usually known as “hot water extraction”. Steam cleaning is very useful method to keep the carpet free from dirt and spot. It needs a steam cleaning machine to complete the task. It is not a chemical free process. So it requires soap, vinegar or another chemical mechanism with hot water to make a solution. Then it is needed to spray the solution to clean the carpet. As it needs to dry the carpet after steam cleaning, one should choose a day with perfect weather for drying.

2. Bonnet carpet cleaning process

Bonnet cleaning is mainly a commercial carpet cleaning process. This process usually is used in office rather than home. It is not such a deep cleaning process like steam cleaning but it is useful. Bonnet cleaning also uses some chemical like detergent. It needs to spray the chemical on the carpet. Then by running a bonnet machine or one may also use a floor cleaning machine including a pad can clean the layer of fibers of the carpet.

3. Shampooing

Shampooing is popular and effective method of cleaning carpet. It is also a deep carpet cleaning process. Before shampooing it is needed to clean and vacuum the room. That increases the effectiveness of shampooing. To make the task easier one should use carpet shampooers. Before shampooing it needs to be careful about stains or spots. Stain remover can be used to remove the selected spot, although there are many shampoos these are working better for removing stain from carpet. It needs to use water when shampooing. So the carpet is needed to dry after shampooing.

4. Carpet encapsulating

Encapsulation carpet cleaning process is a critical carpet cleaning process. It needs to make an encapsulating chemical solution which is needed to spray the carpet. Detergent can be used to make the chemical solution. After spraying the solution it needs to run a bonnet machine or floor cleaning machine onto the carpet. Then the chemical solution will be mixed with the soil and dirt of the carpet and made a chemical reaction. This reacted solution surrounds each particle of soil and crystals. Then it rinses away all those particles. Here the encapsulates are turned as a part of the detergent as it is nothing but only the polymers of detergent. After that, the encapsulated soil particles will be released from the fiber of the carpet and make the carpet neat and clean. It should be allowed 20-25 minutes to dry out, although it is a low moisture process. It needs to vacuum the carpet after dry. And finally, it will turn back as a clean and perfect carpet.

5. Dry cleaning method

Dry cleaning method is latest and useful technique for carpet cleaning. And it also became a very popular and most using process because of its low moisture technology. This technology was invented about 35 years ago. So, there are many specialized machines and cleaning compound or powder is being invented. In this method, it needs to spray the cleaning compound or powder into the carpet with the spray machine. Before start dry cleaning it is needed to select the dark spot and remove the spot with vacuuming. Here the cleaning powder or compound usually made of a biodegradable material. The compound rinses all the dirt and stain from the fiber. And so it is effective and comfortable than other methods.

6. Vacuuming

Vacuum cleaning, it is the most important method of carpet cleaning. Because before and after applying all cleaning method vacuum cleaning is essential. In carpet cleaning vacuuming means create the empty space into the fibers of the carpet.

How can one make the empty space into the fibers?

And why is it needed?

It has a perfect way of making the empty space. Removing all the dirt from the carpet ensure the empty space. Dirt is very dangerous to the fiber of the carpet. It acts like blades for the fiber. When someone walks through the carpet, the dirt blades make the fiber tiny. Again when one starts cleaning the carpet with any method before vacuuming, the dirt also starts to act such a horrible way. For this reason, vacuuming is the crying need before applying any cleaning technique.

Usually one needs to use vacuum cleaner for vacuuming, Shark rocket deluxe series is recommended. One must be careful when using vacuum cleaner. If the vacuum cleaner is set too close to the carpet can be damaged. Again if it is too far, it will not work well. So the vacuum cleaner must be set to the perfect distance. The speed of the vacuum must be perfect because it doesn’t work properly with very high or low speed. Vacuuming is also a healthy process because there is no need of using chemical products.

7. Stain removal

Removing stain is very important part of carpet cleaning. Before start cleaning, carpet one should focus on the main spot of the carpet and take steps to remove it first. One can easily remove these spots with various kinds of stain removing chemical compounds. Such as:

• One can use vinegar and warm water for pet stains.
• Ink can be removed with lemon that contains oxalic acid and with Hartshorne.
• Fats can be removed with turpentine, petroleum naphtha and ox gall.
• For acid discoloration, ammonia and chloroform can be used.
• Hydrogen peroxide will be used blood stains.

 Others

 There are some other methods that also help to remove stain. But they are mainly used for some selected stains. Such as, club soda is used for removing wine and beer stains. Detergent, shaving cream and freeze-dried gum are also useful to remove stain from the carpet.

Author Bio: This article is contributed by George Michael. He is passionate about home cleaning and usually reviews home appliances on a regular basis. He also run some DIY projects. You will find his research and guides on Vacuumist.com