Oriental Rug Maintenance Tips

 If you chose to decorate your home with oriental rugs, it’s important to know how to go about keeping them clean. Rugs take a beating with foot traffic, pets, and general wear and tear. It’s important to give them attentive care. Proper rug maintenance is a must for not only preserving their beauty but also ensuring your home is clean and healthy.

Professional oriental rug cleaning plays an essential role in rug maintenance. However, even if you have professionals cleaning your rugs with the right frequency, you’ll still need to do a bit of maintenance in between professional cleanings to keep your rugs looking great.

Protect Your Rug in Between Oriental Rug Cleanings With These Tips

Our team at Johnson County Chem‑Dry offers experienced oriental rug cleaning services that carefully lift up compacted dirt and grime from delicate textiles. Many homeowners worry about cleaning upsetting the rug’s dyes and hand-woven fibers. We are here to offer advice on how to gently, but effectively, keep your rug in good condition in between care from our professionals.

Take a look at the tips below for ensuring you have a solid oriental rug cleaning routine.

1. Make vacuuming systematic.
   You likely vacuum your home regularly, but you may not have a systematic schedule for doing so. Regular vacuum cleaning is absolutely essential for preventing dust and dirt from embedding itself deep within oriental rugs. 
   
   We recommend vacuuming your rug at least once a week. However, if you have pets or children, or your rug is in a particularly high-traffic area of your home such as the entryway or hallway, you may want to vacuum even more often.
2. Stop dirt from being tracked into your home.
   You can limit the amount of soil your rug is exposed to by having a no-shoes policy inside your home. This policy has the added benefit of keeping your home cleaner overall. 
   
   However, it may be difficult to implement if you have friends and family coming and going regularly. Start by adding a shoe rack at the entrance of your home to encourage guests to take their shoes off. Also, be sure to have doormats at all exterior doors so guests can at least wipe their feet before entering. Both of these simple additions can help keep oriental rugs clean.
3. Wear socks.
   You can also help keep your rug clean by encouraging your family to wear socks at home rather than walking around barefoot. Feet are naturally sweaty and produce skin oils that leach into rugs and carpets. These oils can have a negative impact on oriental rug fibers and dyes and can also act as a magnet for dirt, causing your rugs to become soiled more quickly. 
4. Rearrange furniture often.
   Rearranging the furniture in your home doesn’t only give your living environment a fresh, new feel. It can also provide rugs with relief from the constant pressure of heavy furnishings. Consider moving your furniture around on a quarterly basis to ensure exposure to dirt and wear and tear is evenly distributed across your rug.
5. Soak up spills right away.
   Accidental spills are one of the most common sources of spots and stains. If you drop something on your rug that could stain it, grab a white cloth or paper towel and absorb as much of the extra liquid as possible. 
   
   If the substance is solid or semi-solid, carefully remove the solids before dabbing at the area. Never aggressively rub or scrub the spot, as this can push the stain further into the fibers and make it more permanent.

Whether you’re dealing with a stain on your rug or simply want to increase its longevity, you can count on our oriental rug cleaning professionals for expert support. 

SUMMER IS OUT, SCHOOL IS IN—AND SO IS THE DIRT

Congratulations, you’ve made it—summer is over and school is back in session! It’s the end of wondering how to keep your kids busy, and out of trouble day after day. But with back to school in full force, comes another predicament: how do you keep the dirt off of your carpet and out of your home? With some organization, and a little creativity, your home can be squeaky clean—and stay that way. Keep reading to find out how.

Create a Shoe Organizer

A dirty carpet can make you feel like you have a dirty home. In some ways, it’s true—because walking on a dirty carpet affects your physical health. Does your teenager lie down on your living room carpet while watching his favorite show? Does your first grader rough house with his siblings in the hallway? You have a busy household to run, and filled with ‘precious cargo’, so you don’t have any time to worry about a dirty carpet. To minimize the dirt that’s dragged in from every old place your child has been all day, create a shoe organizer and place it by the front door.

Head to your local department store, and purchase a shoe organizer (similar to what you use to hang up your shoes in your closet.) It won’t cost you more than $20 and you’ll instantly have an easy way for your children to organize their shoes and eliminate the ‘dirt factor’ when they come home from school.

Purchase Door Mats and Rugs to Keep Dirt at Bay

As another smart ‘rule of thumb’ for keeping your carpet as clean as possible, welcome mats and area rugs can help preserve the life span of your flooring. Your kids are learning lots of new rules this time of year—when homework is due, what’s expected of them as a student, what school supplies they need to succeed—so give them an easy one to follow. Wipe those feet, please! With welcome mats, your children can play their part, so that your carpet lasts as long as possible.

Empower Your Teenagers with Some Light Chores (and Reward Them for It)

If there’s a golden rule of clean carpets, it’s vacuuming. Vacuum regularly and you’ll be able to suck up tiny specks of dirt you kids bring in. In other words, when you make vacuuming a priority (especially with school back in session) you can extend the life and quality of your carpet. Get your teenager involved (as well as any other young member of your family that could benefit from some responsibility) with a weekly vacuuming chore. Create a chart of who is responsible for vacuuming on each day, or every few days. Reward your children with an allowance, so they’ll be motivated to continue their enthusiasm to help out with the household work.

Need extra help? Chem‑Dry is the world’s leading carpet cleaning professionals, and when more dirt than usual is coming through your home, count on them to get the job done! They offer a clean and healthy carbonation formula to extract pollutants, mold, and dirt out of your carpets—which leaves you more ‘family time’.

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