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Carpet Cleaning - Vacuum cleaning, steam cleaning, shampoo cleaning (Part 2)
December 2nd, 2009
If your carpet is old, dirty and beaten up you don’t necessarily have to buy a new one. Our home cleaning experts will treat your carpet with professional care, making it clean, free of spots and stains, usable for many more years.
Our home cleaners use the most gentle and universal cleaning substances for making sure your carpet does get damaged.
Instructions:
1. Test cleaning solutions on a carpet
*Be sure to blot, not rub, at the stains.
*Before moving from one step to the next, test the cleaning substance on an inconspicuous area of carpet.
*Put a little of the treatment on the carpet.
*Let it sit for about 10 mins and blot with a clean white rag.
*Inspect the rag for any dye from the carpet and inspect the carpet for any damage.
*If a wool carpet doesn’t respond to water and a mild soap then use steam cleaning.
2. Stains removal techniques
Note: Always rinse well between steps!
*[Blot up liquid spills promptly then dilute what remains with water and blot some more. Optional - dilute using plain mineral water]
*[Try a general-purpose spot cleaner. Mix one tea spoon of mild washing-up with 100ml of warm water. Blot it on the spot. Rinse well with clean water.]
*[Use a solution of 15ml of ammonia and 50ml of water on spots, blood and chocolate.]
*[Try 1 part white vinegar and 2 parts water on mildew stains and spills with a strong residual odour, such as urine.]
*[Try full-strenght 3 per cent hydrogen peroxide on tomato-based stains, red drinks, alcoholic drinks, fruit juice, grass cotton bud and press into the stain. Use a fresh cotton bud to lift off the solvent and the dissolved stain.]
*[Use methylated spirits full strenght on oily stains, ballpoint pen ink, candle wax residue and grass stains. Use the cotton bud treatment, as above.]
3. Special situations
*Oily spills – mayonnaise, salad dressing and butter, try saturating the spot with cornflour, a good absorbent. Allow it to dry, then vacuum.
*Candle wax – use a warm iron over a sheet of greaseproof paper to take up as much wax as possible. Then dab on methylated spirits. If there is still a stain, move on to the general-purpose spot cleaner (go through the second stain removal technique).
*Pet accidents – First flush the spot with water and blot with an old towel or rag. Then use the general purpose spot treatment (go through the second stain removal technique). Rinse that with the vinegar mixture (go through the forth stain removal technique).Rinse again with water and blot. Apply 1cm thick layer of dry, clean white rags, towels or paper towels, weight them with a heavy object and allow them to sit for several hours. If there are still damp when you remove them, repeat with a fresh layer of absorbent materials until they come up dry. The odour will not come out as long as any urine remains. Repeat until no smell remains.
* As a last resort take a pair of nail scissors and snip off the very worst of the stained pile. Then leave a small ice cube to melf on spot. The remaining fibres should swell a little to help plug the gap.
This is a small percentage of the skills our home cleaners are able to do. Their’s always a solution for every problem they come across to. This is due to their experties and years of experience providing home cleaning services.
Customer Notice: Our home cleaning experts never mix cleaning substances due to following high safety standards.
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