Carpet Cleaning & Maintenance Tips To Extend The Life Of Your Carpet

Proper care and maintenance of your carpet will extend its useful life and preserve its appearance for years and years. Failure to take care of it will result in premature wear. Additionally, clean carpets contribute to a healthy indoor environment. Dirty carpets can be unhealthful indeed. 

Save yourself money and maintain a healthy home by using the following simple carpet care tips: 

• Vacuum your carpets three times a week using a vacuum cleaner with a HEPA (high-efficiency particulate) filter.
• Remove stains and spills as promptly as possible. this is best achieved with CleanDry Professional Strength Spot Remover. 
• Remove as much excess as possible, then apply and blot with a clean white cloth. 
• DO NOT rub the spot as this might grind the stain in further. 
  
• Have your carpets cleaned and protected at least twice a year by CleanDry, or more often if you have children or pets. 
  
• See our spot removal tips for advice on how to treat spills and stains on your carpet.

Like all textiles, carpets will eventually show signs of wear. The wear creates an illusion of soiling, which often causes frustration and misunderstanding between the homeowners and carpet care experts. Even though a carpet has been cleaned, it does not mean the traffic areas will look clean. Traffic areas are those places where people are constantly walking or working. 

 This situation creates what is called "traffic lane gray". 

 There is not a lot that a carpet care expert can do with traffic lane gray. When a 10-year old carpet is cleaned, you will end up with a clean 10-year old carpet. It may not appear the way you had hoped. The easiest way to slow down this process is by rearranging the furniture so traffic areas are changed or just add area rugs.

• It is essential to maintain a regular light cleaning schedule between professional cleanings by simply wiping down your leather upholstery with a damp cloth (or nubuck cleaning cloth depending on the type of leather you have). 
• Be sure to have your leather furniture professionally cleaned and re-protected on an annual or semi-annual basis by a trained and trust-worthy CleanDry professional in your area. Ensure that any pets are de-clawed or well-trained to use a designated scratching post to save your upholstery from unnecessary abuse that can be very costly to repair. 
• Depending on the relative humidity inside your home, be sure to have your gorgeous leather suite conditioned or moisturized over and above professional cleaning 1-4 times per year. 
• For future touch ups and possible more serious repairs, be certain to keep receipts and documentation of your leather purchases, including swatch matches to make the process easier and ensure better quality of servicing at that time.

Between professional cleanings, you can also further maintain the health and enhance beauty of your leather furniture by cleaning with CleanDry Soft Cleaner and rejuvenating the protection with CleanDry Protection Cream. Both products are found in the CleanDry Home Leather Care Kit.

• Act Quickly - The longer the stain is allowed to remain, the more chance it has to set. 
• Know what kind of stain you are working on as well as the type of fabric or surface it is on so you can choose the best product. 
• View the list below to see which product to use for water or oil based spots. Remove as much excess stain as you can by blotting, scraping or brushing whatever will come off. 
• DO NOT rub it in. Test all fabrics and carpets before cleaning by spraying a small amount of CleanDry Professional Strength Spot Remover or CleanDry Grease & Oil Remover on a hidden area, blot dry and observe for 10 minutes. 
• Make sure there is not carpet colour removal onto the cloth and that, when dry, there is not a visible discolouration in the area you cleaned. 
• Work from the outside edge of the stain to the inside to keep the stain from spreading. 
• Call CleanDry for expert spot & stain removal if these efforts do not work. Have a CleanDry Professional apply our Protector with every cleaning to give you the best chance for removing stains.