So you bought that all wool Shaw area rug from their W E Poole Collection that you fell in love with. It gets delivered and as you spread it out you vow to take good care of it. The most important step in caring for your carpet is vacuuming and you need to do this thoroughly and frequently, particularly in high traffice areas. Bear in mind that walking on soiled carpet permits the soil particles to work their way below the surface of the pile where they are far more difficult to remove. Frequent vacuuming removes these particles from the surface before this happens.
Now when I am talking about frequent I’m not talking about just spring cleaning or even once a month. For rooms with light traffic you really need to vacuum the traffic lanes twice a week and the entire rug once every week. For those areas with heavier traffic the traffic lanes should really be vacuumed daily and the entire area rug about twice a week.
Now you want to stop thinking in the back and forth, making sure the whole thing is covered mind set. You will want to make up to three passes of the vacuum cleaner will suffice for lightly soiled areas, but you may need five to seven passes for more heavily soiled areas.
We will talk about vacuum cleaners in another post but for now break out that machine you have that is gathering dust in the closet and take care of that Shaw area rug investment you have lying in the middle of the floor.
There is one other alternative, just rope off the room as a friend of mines mother did when we were young. Come to think of it I am probably still not allowed in that room.
