When you purchase wool rugs, you’re making an investment in your home. When you value that investment, you make regular maintenance and professional cleaning a high priority. But how should you prevent stains at home, and how often should your valuable rug get professionally cleaned?
The Importance of Rug Cleaning and Maintenance
Do you take care of your investments? Of course, you do. Do you consider your health an investment? What about your home? A professionally cleaned rug not only can improve your health but enhances the beauty of your home. Yearly cleaning of your valuable rugs will prevent breathing disorders, remove trapped contaminants and harmful toxins, and protect against mold growth. A professionally cleaned rug has bright colors fully restored and brings life back to your lived-in living spaces.
Regular Maintenance
A thorough vacuuming of your wool rugs with a brush-and-beater bar type of vacuum is just the start. Oriental rugs should be vacuumed over three times in a given area whereas a wool rug takes up to seven passes. While vacuuming, move slowly across the rug for proper maintenance. You’ll be less likely to catch the fringe in the vacuum head if you work slowly.
Spot cleaning with bottled club soda and a wet-vac can do wonders. Catch sand and soil before it has a chance to become embedded in your rug as well.
Three Years of Use
If your rug hasn’t been cleaned in the past three years, it should be professionally inspected to determine if it needs a thorough cleaning or not. Depending on the amount of foot traffic received, a wool rug may need cleaned sooner than the standard five years of use.
Five Years of Use
Your oriental wool rug should be cleaned professionally after five years of use. Professional cleaning involves a deep washing of both sides and the fringe. The process moisturizes, rejuvenates, and revives the wool. The Rug Spa will even notify you of damages and repair your rugs for you.
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