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Carpet Care Tips:
The Importance of Vacuuming
The best thing you can do for your carpet is to vacuum it frequently and
correctly. If you have a family and pets you should vacuum your high traffic areas as much
as once per day. When soils get into a carpet they act as sandpaper rubbing on the fibers
and will cause the carpet fibers to wear out prematurely.
Correctly vacuuming your carpet consists of 1. having the beater bar set
at the correct height for your carpet. (You don’t want the beater bar wearing out the
carpet because it is set too low but you do want it to agitate the fibers so as to break
the soil lose.) 2. You have to vacuum slow enough to get the soil out of the carpet. Many
people move the vacuum so fast across the carpet that much of the soil may never make it
into the vacuum. It may lift up from the carpet and than fall back down again. If the
carpet is vacuumed slowly then the soils that are broken lose have time to make it into
the vacuum. The speed at which you need to vacuum would of course depend on how powerful
your vacuum cleaner is and how thick the carpet is.
Loose soils should always be vacuumed out of the carpet prior to
cleaning. The reason is that as soon as you ad chemicals or water to dry soil it turns to
mud and it get absorbed farther into the carpet and may even remain there after the carpet
is cleaned.
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