It’s easy to see that when you keep your entire house clean, it becomes easier to keep specific rooms clean. On the other hand, if you spend all of your time and energy trying to keep the living room, for example, clean, but you don’t focus on other rooms, you’ll probably be feeling as though you’re chasing your tail just trying to keep those other rooms clean.
Here are four ways, or reasons, that cleanliness in those other rooms can affect how your living room carpet is maintained.
1. Tracking dirt in from other rooms. If you don’t keep other rooms, such as bedrooms, clean a regular basis, dirt and other debris will begin to build up on the floor surfaces. Even if people are only walking on your carpeting in the living room with socks on, the dirt and other particulates can be clinging to their socks and be transferred to that room carpet.
2. When you keep other rooms in the house clean, you will be more inspired to continue focusing on keeping your living room carpet in great condition. One filthy, dirty room will inspire less cleanliness and the rest of the house.
3. If you don’t keep up with vacuuming and taking care of area rugs and carpets and other rooms, when you finally take the cart the vacuum cleaner out, it can get hair and other items tangled within the rollers and that can get transferred back to the living carpet.
4. Setting the precedent. If you tell everyone in your family to make sure they keep the living room completely clean, but you allow them to live in squalor in their own bedrooms, it’s not setting a good precedent. It will be much more difficult for them to follow through in helping to maintain that living room to such high standards.
