How to Clean Your Carpets

Steps

1. Mix some powder laundry detergent with some water; use common sense with how much you're mixing. Mix together with a cloth.
2. Vacuum your rug. Once over is good enough, and start from a corner.
3. Wipe down a small area of the carpet with the cloth to make it damp, and collect any lint from the top.
4. Scrub the area gently with the scrub brush until clean.
5. Throw down some old towels or sheets so the carpet doesn't get dirty, and to soak up excess liquid.
6. Replace your soapy water with fresh clear water after finishing the entire area.
7. Go over the cleaned areas with just water and the scrub brush to remove any excess soap, then let it dry. It will dry faster with fans or open windows.
8. When it's done, your carpet will smell like the detergent you used and will be sparkling clean.
9. Try extremely hard to remove all detergent from the carpet, as the excess detergent will pick up soil very quickly.
10. Be sure to vacuum when it's dry to fluff it up.
12. Use a clean towel and dab up the excess spill
13. Pour a 1/4 cup of cool water on spill/area
14. Dab spot with clean towel, DO NOT rub towel across area because that will only make the mess larger.
15. Keep dabbing and adding a little more water until area appears clean.
16. Go over the area again (dabbing only) with another clean towel to ensure that most of the water has been cleaned up.

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Warnings

• Don't soak your carpet too much or it will take way too long to dry and may soak through to the underlay and rot your floor.
• Be sure that you have time to clean and dry your carpet without other people tracking more dirt in.

Things You'll Need

• water
• clean towels
• scrub brush
• laundry detergent (powder) **Use only for heavily soiled areas

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