Why You Cannot Clean Rugs At Home?
Natural fibre area rugs need to be cleaned with special cleaning solutions that will safely and gently clean the fibres. Most cleaning solutions for regular carpets are too harsh for natural fibres and can damage them. Few carpet cleaners will carry these special solutions on their truck. Natural fibres can hold a tremendous amount of soil without looking particularly dirty. That’s why the first step in rug dry cleaning is a process called “dusting” the rugs. The rugs are placed upside down over a raised grid and mechanically vibrated to allow much of the heavy, dry soil to fall out. Then the rug is placed right side up, and compressed air is forced through the rug, which blows away the fine dust. Now, the subsequent washing of the rug will be more effective because most of the dry soil is removed. None of the above processes can take place in the home. Steam cleaning a rug in the home will never remove all the soil buried deep in the base of the carpet. That soil will prematurely w...