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Oriental Carpet Choosing Basic Care |
The
acquisition of a good carpet is a major investment. Your carpets
must be washed by professionals, every other year, to preserve nap.
Hence, we suggest the following maintenance procedures bellow. |
Vacuuming
1. If carpet is fluffy,
stir fibers, loosening dirt before vacuuming.
2. Stitched carpets easily accumulate residues between
knots. A powerful vacuum cleaner is necessary.
3. Make sure the vacuum cleaner is in good condition
and performing well.
4. Try to vacuum contrary to traffic direction, to
avoid flattening of fibers.
Cleaning
Kitchen vapors, air pollution and soot may gradually grime carpet’s
surface. This type of dirt may literally cling fibers one to another,
worsening the problem of dry dirt, which ends up sticking to carpet.
There are several ways of cleaning a carpet but one rule is specially
universal: clean your carpet before it becomes disfigured and ugly.
No carpet is stainproof, although some are more resistant.
Solutions to remove common stains (see legend below table).
| Removing stains | step 1 | step 2 | step 3 |
| Alcoholic beverages | 1 | 2 | - |
| Bleach | 1 | 3 | - |
| Blood | 1 | 2 | - |
| Butter | 4 | 2 | - |
| Bubble gum | 5 | 4 | - |
| Chocolate | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| Coffee | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Soft drinks | 7 | 2 | - |
| Cooking oil | 4 | 2 | - |
| Egg | 2 | - | - |
| Cream | 2 | 4 | - |
| Floor-polishing wax | 4 | - | - |
| Marker pen | 7 | 2 | 8 |
| Fruit juice | 1 | 2 | - |
| Furniture polish | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| Stock (meat and spices) | 7 | 2 | - |
| Fountain pen | 1 | 2 | - |
| Ballpoint pen | 4 | 9 | 2 |
| Ketchup | 7 | 2 | - |
| Lipstick | 4 | 2 | - |
| Mercurochrome | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| Milk | 7 | 4 | 2 |
| Mustard | 2 | - | - |
| Nail polish | 8 | 4 | - |
| Oil / grease | 4 | 2 | - |
| Latex paint | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Oil paint | 9 | 4 | 2 |
| Rust | 4 | 2 | 10 |
| Salad sauce | 2 | 4 | - |
| Shoe polish | 4 | 2 | - |
| Soot | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| Pitch | 4 | - | - |
| Tea | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Urine - fresh | 1 | 2 | - |
| Urine- dry | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| Vomit | 2 | - | - |
| Wine | 11 | 1 | 2 |
| Unknown substance | 4 | - | 2 |
| 1. |
Cold water |
| 2. |
Detergent solution (1 teaspoon
detergent dissolved in 1 cup of warm water) |
| 3. |
Ammonia water (1 soupspoon
3% ammonia dissolved in 1 cup of water) |
| 4. |
Dry cleaning solvent |
| 5. |
Ice in a plastic bag (after
chilling the stained area, remove dirt residues and fragments and
then vacuum) |
| 6. |
Water solution of vinegar
(1/3 cup of white vinegar dissolved in 2/3 cup of water) |
| 7. |
Warm water (do not use hot
water) |
| 8. |
Acetone |
| 9. |
Alcohol |
| 10. |
Rust and mold remover
|
| 11. |
Salt / talcum powder |