Keeping your carpets looking as good as possible and lasting for as long as possible is a matter of regular cleaning and doing what you can to help protect them. Many people require that their children, guests, and anyone else entering the home remove their shoes before stepping on carpeting, especially when that carpeting is installed brand-new.
It’s certainly beneficial to rely on a professional and experienced carpet cleaning company to come in and clean them with truck mounted equipment every six months, but in between those regular cleanings, vacuuming is essential.
However, recent studies have indicated that the vast majority of people don’t know how to vacuum properly. They have a tendency to move the vacuum cleaner over the carpeting quickly and in a haphazard fashion.
Here is one strategy that can help you vacuum each room more effectively.
Begin with quadrants.
A quadrant is basically one quarter of the room. By breaking down each room into four quadrants, it can allow you the opportunity to vacuum those floors as efficiently and effectively as possible. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a bedroom, living room, or even a family room.
Most rooms have furniture and other items along the floor. Large furniture items will not be practical to have them moved. Instead of moving them, you certainly want to use the hose attachment and vacuum along the edge of the furniture to get up the debris that the beater bar on the vacuum is not going to reach.
Start with one quarter of the room, clear away whatever movable items there are, and vacuum there. Make sure you get along the baseboards, on heating registers, and in other hard-to-reach areas. Vacuum that quadrant of the room moving the vacuum slowly across the surface of the carpeting to give the machine enough time to suction out as much dirt and debris as possible.
Once you’ve finished vacuuming that quadrant in one direction, do it in a perpendicular direction. When you have finished with that quadrant, move objects off and adjacent quadrant and do that. Continue this until the entire room is vacuumed and you will have a much cleaner and healthier carpet.
Just don’t ignore the benefits of a professional carpet cleaning every six months.
