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Fading of Your Carpets Is a Process of Sun, Time, and Use

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Welcome matTime flies. Before you know it, your kids are teenagers, beginning to look at college, and you can’t believe how quickly they grew. You also start looking around your house and seeing a number of issues arising.

The effects of time are starting to take a toll. Your kitchen looks old, your pots and pans are worn out, your bathroom could certainly use a remodel, and the carpets look terrible. ‘But,’ you think to yourself, ‘I just had them installed last year.’

You wonder how things could get so bad so quickly, but then your spouse, friend, or even your child reminds you it’s been quite a few years since you had your wall-to-wall carpeting installed. It just doesn’t feel like it.

You take a closer look and begin to remember that yes, indeed, it’s been six years since you had them installed. Still, you expected they would last a bit longer than that. And they should.

Quality wall-to-wall carpeting should last between 8 to 10 years with average use. With minimal use or exceptional care and support for them through the years, they could last 10, 12, or even more years than that.

Over time your carpets are going to collect more and more dirt. The sunlight is going to fade certain areas of the carpeting. No amount of vacuuming or other cleaning is going to improve their condition as the years press on.

That’s because the dirt, dust, and other foreign contaminants get trapped deeper down into the carpet fiber and not even the most powerful vacuum in the world is going to get them out.

That’s why a professional carpet cleaning every once in a while is a good idea. In fact, those people who have a professional carpet cleaning service come into their home once a year, at a minimum, enjoy their carpets for 10, 12, 14, and possibly even more years than that. When you calculate in the cost of carpeting itself, that’s a lot of savings.

A Mop and Bucket Isn’t Ideal for Cleaning Floors at Home

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5 dirty little secrets homecleaningHave you ever heard that using a sponge is a bad idea for cleaning countertops? In fact, sponges are not ideal for even cleaning your dishes. The best thing is to use a towel, and only use it once before throwing it in the wash.

A sponge traps germs and bacteria and then spreads it around all across your countertops, stove tops, tables, and other surfaces. When it comes to cleaning your floors, especially your hardwood floors, a mop or mop and bucket is really not much different. It’s going to be picking up all of that dirt, all of that bacteria, and all of those germs and instead of removing them completely, it will spread it around.

When you take a brand-new mop and begin cleaning the floor, you notice that dirt collecting on the mop surface or sponge head immediately. You can wring it out, dip it in solution, and keep wringing out to your hearts content, but the bacteria and germs are not coming off of it that way.

So how can you properly wash your floors?

The best way is to use some type of product you can either put in the wash or dispose of after each use. You’re still going to be spreading some of the bacteria and germs around while cleaning floors, but minimize how much floor surface is being cleaned with each particular product.

For example, if you have to clean the hallway that leads down to the bedrooms, living room, the dining room, and kitchen floors, that mop is going to get dirty before you’re out of one of those rooms, let alone all of them. Instead, use a different cleaning material, whether it’s a towel, product you buy for each use, pre-soaked pad onto the handle, etc., for each room.

That will help not only keep your floors clean, but it will keep your home a bit more sanitary and safer.

3 Tips for Keeping Persian Rugs Looking Their Best

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persian and other fine rugsYou have a Persian rug. It was probably a significant investment. You want to make sure it lasts for as long as possible.

Keeping a Persian rug or any type of floor covering looking its best is going to be challenging, especially if you have a lot of foot traffic coming and going throughout your house on a daily basis. You might have dogs, cats, children, and others who use your home every single day.

If that’s the case, you’re going to notice wear and tear, certain patterns developing over the rug, and probably even stains and other accidents. Below are three tips that can help you keep your Persian rugs looking as well as they can for as long as possible.

Persian Rug Care Tip #1: Understand the need for proper care.

One of the most important first things is to understand how important it is for regular care for your Persian rugs and wall-to-wall carpeting. If you think vacuuming is enough, you’re sorely mistaken.

Every rug or carpet needs proper care every once in a while. That’s why it’s a good idea to hire a professional carpet cleaning service at least once a year, if not twice, to maintain your floor coverings for as long as possible.

Persian Rug Care Tip #2: Realize sunlight damage is possible.

If your Persian rug is exposed to direct sunlight for several hours a day, guess what? It’s going to fade over time. The sun’s ultraviolet radiation (UV rays) will cause fading not just to papers and other materials, but furniture, carpeting, and rugs.

The color in your Persian rug is going to lose its luster over time if you’re not careful. Try to protect the Persian rug from direct sunlight as much as possible.

Persian Rug Care Tip #3: Protect wear marks.

If people walk over the same area of the rug day after day, it’s going to create significant wear over that area. This will begin to look like a path in the middle of the woods. Move the rug, turn it around, and alter where people walk across it as much as possible.

If possible and reasonable, you might want to position the rug in a place that has a lot less foot traffic. It can still look wonderful and be less exposed to the harm that walking across it can cause.

One of the Best Ways to Prep Your Home for Sale

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checklistIf you’re looking to sell your house this winter, you’re probably going to get a lot of advice.

You’re going to hear about minimizing your furniture, taking pictures off the walls, and basically minimizing your personal touches. Another thing you can do to help present your home in the best manner possible is considering the condition of your floor surfaces.

You may have wall-to-wall carpeting in a lot of the rooms, especially bedrooms, and it’s at least four or five years old. There’s no need to replace it before selling your home; the new homeowner will likely want to replace it with the color and type of carpeting they want.

However, it probably is four or five years old but looks eight or 10 years old. If it looks old, haggard, threadbare, stained, and has other issues, it’s a good idea to have a professional carpet cleaning service come in and help restore it.

Depending on the age, condition, and other factors, they may be able to bring it back to almost like new condition or at least a lot better looking than it is now.

You can assume a potential home buyer will look beyond that when considering purchasing your home, and they might very well. They may assume they’re going to replace the carpeting anyway, but if the carpet looks terrible it may impact their decision to buy your home.

That means you might be getting offers quite a bit lower than you would hope. It’s a small investment that could pay dividends when you consider higher offers and more of them.

Keep in mind that people are reluctant to change their first impressions when house hunting. If they get a bad first impression from your home because of the cleanliness of your floors (or lack thereof), you could end up paying for that in the sale price.

What Makes for a Great Carpet Cleaning Team?

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checklistSo what qualities do you look for in a great carpet cleaning team?

One of the most important things is to hire a team that has a lot of experience. This doesn’t mean newcomers are not going to do a good job, but if you are most concerned with your carpets and want them looking their best, you don’t want to hand it over to somebody, or a team, that has only been doing this for a few months or a couple of years.

The more experience a carpet cleaning company has, the more equipped they are to handle just about every situation and stain, no matter how long it’s been there.

A second quality to look for involves integrity. You can look online and see reviews from previous customers for many businesses. More and more businesses are becoming aware of the value of independent, uninhibited reviews.

Look at the reviews of the company you consider. What did the previous clients have to say about their workmanship, professionalism, courtesy, respect for their home, and the quality of work they do?

A third quality to look for in a great carpet cleaning team is having the right equipment. When it comes to professional carpet cleaning services, a quality team should have truck mounted equipment; any carpet cleaning service that drags their equipment in with them is not one that will do the best possible job for you, your home, or your family.

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