5 Tips to Clean Your Carpet Like a Pro 🧫

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Hello Clean Freak Family! Greetings from sunny Florida!

While we are seeing a LOT of tile floors and sand in the Sunshine State, this week we are going to talk about Carpet!

With Spring Cleaning right around the corner…

What’s more overwhelming, having dirty carpets or trying to figure out the best way to clean them? Whether you’re combatting pet hair, spills, pet accidents, or just everyday soil particles, our tips for cleaning your carpet like a pro (without having to hire a professional cleaner) are easy to follow and can be used to get back to that wonderful clean carpet smell and look.

Today we are going to help you clean your carpet like a Pro!

5 Tips to Clean Your Carpet Like a Pro

1. Vacuum! Vacuum! Vacuum!

Thoroughly vacuum all the carpet before you get it wet. Your carpet is one of the biggest air filters in your home. That means it holds all that dry soil, pet hair, and whatever else is floating around in your house.

When you come through with the vacuum, you're getting that first layer of dry dirt and grime off the carpet. Getting rid of this top layer will allow your shampooer to get the dirt and soil that is embedded in your carpet.

2. The Solution is The Right Solution?

Pick the right carpet-cleaning solution.

There are a variety of soaps and DIY mixes on the market, and some of them work well. However, we highly suggest using Ultrapac Trafficlean from Prochem or Green Dragon 🐉. Both solutions give professional results and don't leave sticky soap residue or anything that will attract dirt after cleaning.

3. Pump It Up!

Mix your cleaning solution in a pump-up sprayer.

In this step, you’ll pump up the solution and evenly spray it across the room, about a foot or two above the carpet. Spray the whole room and let it sit for about five to ten minutes.

You can get a one-gallon or two-gallon pump-up spray bottle at your local big-box store, like Home Depot or even Amazon. This step is extremely important to loosen up soil from the carpet fibers. You are essentially pre-treating the carpet which helps give the soap time to loosen up and dissolve the dirt and grime sitting in the carpet fibers.

4. The Machine

Use your carpet cleaning machine the right way.

We like to use the Hoover SmartWash, but regardless of whether you use this, a rental from a big box store like Rug Doctor, or something comparable, these three rules still apply:

• Fill your fresh-water tank with warm water from the sink, and ONLY clean water. Do not add any soaps or any sort of additives to this water. You are rinsing not only the dirt and grime but also soap, so you want your rinsing water to be clean.

• Go slowly. Rinse all that dirt and soap off the carpet and then go over it again with just the vacuum function so that you're extracting as much moisture as possible.

• If an area isn't cleaning up as well as other places, repeat the pre-treatment in step three and then rinse it out again.

Pro Tip: You want to go at it layer by layer as opposed to really saturating an area with a bunch of moisture because it will make it that much harder to pull the moisture out of the carpet.

5. Quick Dry!

Minimize the time you have damp carpet and accelerate the drying process by following these three steps:

• Turn on a box fan or even turn on the ceiling fan if you have one in the room to get the airflow moving through the area you just cleaned.

• Make sure the home environment is about 70 degrees Fahrenheit so you can either turn on the air conditioning, turn on the furnace, or open the windows. The key is to make sure the home is around 70 degrees.

• This is our favorite drying option: grab one of these Grandi Groomer raking tools. This tool leaves an amazing finish and stands the carpet strands up so the carpet can dry quicker. Warning, the Grandi Groomer is extremely addicting and very satisfying to use. Before you know it, you'll be grooming your entire house.

Next time your dog runs through the house with muddy paws, you’ll be able to restore your carpets with ease. Preparing to bring a new baby home? Carpet is great for young children when it’s clean (and before they make it dirty). When carpet isn’t clean, it can become a health hazard. Add these easy steps to your repertoire and you’ll be a carpet-cleaning machine.

We are super excited to have our first ever Sponsor for the Clean Freak Weekly! Hoover has been our go to vacuum in our Family’s Cleaning Business for over 40 years! We even made a video about the history of that HERE! If you’re in the market for a cordless stick vacuum check out the new Emerge.

A little confession here… Do you clean on vacation? We do!

Next week we are going to talk about cleaning on vacation!!!

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💚 Brandon & James

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