It's a really nice 5'x9' woven American Indian area rug, but the people that owed it never took care of it. It cost over $100. to take it to a professional. Does any one have any idea's how I can clean it myself? In the olden days there had to been away!
You can buy a can of carpet cleaner. The kind that is foamy would be good. The instructions will tell you to use a sponge mop to work the foam into the carpet, then after a certain time...it can be vacuumed off. I guess they still make it like that, haven't used in a while..LOL OR, you can get Auto carpet and upholstery cleaner, which is foamy.
Use your steam air purifier with heat water and a effectual rug shampoo/detergent. place the rug on a no longer situation-free floor if mandatory. If the rug is colorations which you think of of would bleed on a similar time as moist, use cool water and intensely do the shampooing on a no longer situation-free floor, no longer a tender colour carpet for useful. an outdoors deck or sparkling storage floor or sparkling cement cdriveway works sturdy too. I even have used my rug steamer on all varieties of rugs and carpets and overall performance decrease than no circumstances had any situation. you ought to ought to flow over the spots a pair of situations.
You can put it over your clothes line and beat as much of the dirt and dust out of it as you can with an old fashioned rug beater. I would not try any wet methods of cleaning. You don't know what the dyes are made of and if you wet them they could fade or bleed into the other colors and ruin the value of the rug. Sometimes, it really is best to use a professional. This is one of those times.
I was the laughing stock of the car wash when I put a huge area rug on top of my car and washed it right there. I did not care. It got clean! Unfortuantely I did not think it through and had to call my husband to pick it up in the truck. It took 4 days to dry and was never the same. Opposed to taking it to a pro, call a rug company like rug doctor. They usually cost close to nothin. Rent one of those machines like they have at the grocery stores. They work!
If the rug is hand tufted, do not clean it. If the carpet is hand knotted, be careful what you do to it because colors can run if not properly washed. three important things if you decide to clean the rug yourself just make sure the rug is not silk or artificial silk: 1 use a mild detergent which is very, very diluted 2 do not use a carpet cleaning machine 3 make sure you clean the rug outdoors as washing a rug is freeing it of dirt and debris from many years of accumulation. I have had very bad allergic reactions where I had difficulty breathing after cleaning a rug in my bathtub.
