Tips To Keep Rugs in Great Condition

3/11/2017 (Permalink)

Keep your rugs in great shape with these tips!

Maintaining your home is crucial, but it's also a fantastic idea to maintain all the furnishings inside your home, including your carpeting and flooring. Here is SERVPRO of Belle Meade’s top 10 helpful tips for keeping your rugs and flooring in great condition:

6 Rug Care Cleaning Tips for Nashville Homeowners

1. Vacuum clean each rug at least twice per week to remove dust, loose dirt and debris.
2. If you have pets, sweep the pet hair out of each rug before vacuuming. Pet hair can clog your vacuum cleaner bag, and the vacuum cleaner won't always remove it all.
3. At least once per month, take each small area rug outdoors and shake it out. This helps to keep it clean, and it also will help the fibers in the rug from becoming matted down.
4. When you spill something on a rug, be sure to spot clean it immediately to prevent it from becoming stained. Use only the cleaner recommended by the manufacturer of your rug.
5. Do not ever use bleach on a rug! Bleach can weaken the fibers and ruin the color.
6. Clean each rug professionally at least once per year.

SERVPRO of Belle Meade in Nashville Suggests 4 Rug Care Tips for Preventing Wear and Tear

All the flooring in your home can benefit from these 4 tips to prevent wear and tear:

1. Be sure to use a rug pad to reduce wear and tear on each rug in your home. A rug pad will help each rug to grip the floor better, enabling it to stay in the same spot rather than slipping and sliding around.
2. Rotate each rug periodically, perhaps once every quarter or once every two months. Usually, a rug will start to show wear based on the traffic patterns through your home. Each rug may get worn or dirty in the spots that get significant amounts of foot traffic. Rug rotation will help to prevent this. It will enable the rug to receive a more even amount of wear overall so that the same spot doesn't get worn down.
3. Rearrange your furniture. This will have much the same effect as rug rotation, preventing the same spots in your rug from getting worn down.
4. Encourage friends and family members to remove their shoes before entering your home. This will reduce wear and tear on all your flooring, including your rugs.