Tips for Maintaining and Cleaning Area Rugs
Accent rugs can be beautiful accessories to add to any household to improve, modify, accentuate or complement your home décor. In order for your rug to stay in a high quality and attractive state it is important to learn how to properly care for and maintain your product.
The following are tips on how to care for a few types of accent rugs to ensure long lasting wear.
To protect a Persian rug or carpet from fading from over exposure to the sun, rotate its location or block the sun from entering the room by placing shades or curtains on the windows. By the same token you can protect it from wear and tear by rotating its location from a heavy traffic spot to a lesser traveled one in your home. By using a good quality pad you can prevent curling or wrinkling of your area rugs due to their moving around so much. By spraying your carpet twice a year front and back with moth spray you can protect it from moths. Moth spray can easily be found in any carpet store. To remove dirt and debris sweeping is a better method than vacuuming as vacuuming, if not done properly, can cause damage to the rug. Professional carpet cleaners are also available for a deep cleaning job.
Wool rugs are fairly easy to maintain and clean as they are more resistant to dirt and are very durable. The best maintenance involves sweeping and vacuuming regularly, to get rid of dirt and dust before it has a chance to accumulate. Once a month you can take the carpet outside, hang it over a clothesline and beat it with a rug beater to get rid of ground in dirt. Then every six months or so you can steam clean your wool rug by either renting a steam cleaner and doing it yourself, or hiring a professional carpet cleaning company. You can find professional cleaners of floor rugs online.