Are you looking for a way to clean your carpet naturally instead of using chemical cleaners? Below I highlight four natural ways to clean your carpet.
One of the most natural ways to clean your carpet is to vacuum regularly. Vacuuming removes dirt and embedded particles and vacuuming weekly keeps dust at bay.
After vacuuming, you can add baking soda to your carpet to help eliminate pet smells or spills. We recommend adding the baking soda last thing, so it sits overnight. Vacuum the baking soda the next day.
White vinegar is a great natural cleaning product for many surfaces, including carpet. It is excellent for cleaning up after pets. Not only is white vinegar tough on stains it’s also a fantastic deodoriser.
Salt is surprisingly an excellent cleaning and deodorising product. To clean your carpet with salt, blot all the moisture from the carpet and sprinkle on salt. Leave the salt to sit for 20 minutes to absorb any moisture, then clean the area with 2/3 cup water and 1/3 cup white vinegar.
Most professionals will always recommend laying new carpet and insist you need underlay, but why is this? Underlay can bulk up the cost of replacing your floor but is it essential?
In short – yes. Although expensive, it is worth the investment. Underlay protects your carpet underneath and prolongs the life of it. Without suitable underlay, your carpets life span will be significantly reduced. Underlay will also help retain heat, which will keep you warmer in the colder months, as well as reducing energy costs.
This is not the only reason why we think underlay should always be used. It has many excellent properties, such as noise reduction. Underlay will help reduce footfall noise in upstairs rooms and helps deaden TV noises. It also adds comfort when walking on carpets; many people think that the spongy soft feel you get from walking on a new carpet is from the carpet itself. It is actually from the underlay underneath, and the better-quality underlay you buy will increase the comfort.
Although initially, underlay can increase the costs of replacing your carpets, it is worth the investment. You will save money on energy bills long term and have the extra comfort and increase the life of your new carpets.
Wood flooring gives a beautiful and classic look to your home but over time it is very common for it to get scratched. In darker woods is stands out more so you may want to look for ways of covering those scratches so they are less noticeable. One way to make scratches less noticeable is to rub walnuts over the scratches.
You can also can help cover the scratches with a bit of matching wood stain, water-based stains being easier to work with and clean up. There are also hardwood floor reviver products which can help restore floors to a nice finish. For deeper scratches there are also products such as Bondo which is a wood filler that can be sanded and stained.
If a very large area of flooring is pretty much covered in scratches, your most arduous option is sanding/buffing the floors and then re-staining or repainting them.