Spring brings the rain and melting of the snow and ice. That means it also brings along a lot of mud.
Even though kids love to run outside and play in the rain and mud, that can cause a lot of grief for parents, especially when they’re trying to keep their home clean. Whether you have kids, a spouse, or other people living in the house, keeping your carpets clean during the springtime months can be even more challenging than protecting them during the winter.
Even the slightest amount of mud that gets tracked into the house can soon find its way onto your nice, white carpeting and other floor surfaces. If that happens, vacuuming isn’t going to do much to clean the carpeting.
It’s best to be proactive and help avoid mud from being tracked in the house in the first place. Here’s how you can do that.
Make everyone remove their shoes immediately.
Lay out some rubber mat just inside the front or side entry doors. Make everyone, regardless of whether it’s your children, spouse, or yourself, remove their shoes the second they step into the door. If you have a mud room, they should take their shoes off there.
Make them aware of the mud.
Once they remove their shoes, it’s important that they step onto the clean portion of the floor. If they step down onto the rubber mats, their socks or bare feet will be tracking that mud and dirt into the rest of the house.
Get everyone invested in cleanliness.
Even if you have children who are seven or eight, they can take a vested interest in keeping the house clean. This means helping you clean and even vacuum the floors.
The more often people have to vacuum and clean the floors, the more likely they will take the necessary steps to keep them clean in the first place.
Once you get everyone into these good habits, have your carpets professionally cleaned and ready for the summer months ahead.
