Its vital to clean your household carpets, for keeping up the appearances. Even more importantly, its vital to clean your carpets for general hygiene. Carpets are a warm humid hotbed for household dust mites. The excrement of this mite is one of the most widespread allergen triggers for allergies, asthma, and eczema. These mites thrive in the carpets of even the most immaculately clean homes. Children continually exposed to dust mite allergens over extended periods, may develop asthma later on. Carpet is also home to pet hair, mold spores, and pollen.

The art of keeping your carpets clean is to commit to a regular cleaning schedule. You might even want to hang up a carpet cleaning roster in your kitchen cupboard for example, so that you are regularly reminded to take out the vacuum or to clean the carpets. Spot cleaning is a different story, of course, because most homeowners will deal with a glass of spilling juice or wine on the carpet right away, for fear that the stain will be permanent.

Next, you want to go out and buy new slippers for the whole family. Shoes track in dirt that is hard to remove from you carpet fibres. Take some sandpaper and rub the bottom of your shoes, just to see for yourself what kind of dirt youre tracking in. Going barefoot is not much better because the oil from the bottom of your feet also dirties any carpets.

If youre planning to use a carpet shampoo on your carpets, research your product first. Shop for an ecological, environmentally-friendly product. Make sure it contains anti-resoiling additive, else you will find that you manage to get some of the dirt out but you leave in a sticky residue from the shampoo which attracts new dirt, like a magnet. You also want to be attentive to the drying time, stain removal and optical brighteners.

Preventative cleaning solutions will extend the lifespan of your carpets, and keep them looking new longer. The advantage of opting for a DIY cleaning solution, is that you know what you’re putting on your carpet. Only opt for a professional clean provided you know what chemicals are being poured into your carpet. You want to improve appearances, but also remove pollutants, and this means using ecologically friendly, toxic-free cleaning solutions, that will not be harmful to the environment or to your own health.

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