Looking Cleaner and Smelling Fresher
Keeping your carpets fresh and clean is essential for any home with carpet flooring. It makes your entire house have a warmer, more welcoming ambiance.
However, carpets are notorious for attracting dirt and other allergens, easily staining and holding odors. So, how do you keep your carpet clean and smelling fresh?
The answer is quite simple! We’ve compiled a list of easy-to-follow tips that will leave your home carpets looking cleaner and smelling fresher for as long as possible! Continue reading to learn more!
1. Leave the Shoes at the Door
Probably the easiest tip on this list to follow is to leave your shoes at the door. Try to make it a habit for yourself and your family to remove your shoes as soon as you come through the door. You should also encourage any guests to follow suit and leave their shoes too.
Wearing shoes inside your home increases the amount of dirt and debris that gets tracked in over your beautiful, clean carpeting. Shoes also have stiffer rubber soles compared to sock feet or slippers. This isn’t as immediately noticeable as dirt tracks, but it will wear your carpets out much faster than walking without shoes on.
So, by leaving your shoes at the door, you’ll have cleaner carpets and increase the lifespan of your floor!
2. Sprinkle Some Baking Soda Before Vacuuming
When you’re doing your maintenance cleaning, you don’t just want your carpets to look clean; they need to smell clean too! Sprinkling baking soda over your carpets before you vacuum is an easy trick to keep your carpet smelling fresher for much longer.
Merely sprinkle a light dusting of baking soda across your carpeting, let it settle on the carpet for about 5 minutes or so, and then vacuum as you normally would!
3. Remember to Vacuum Regularly and Slow Down!
We understand that unless there’s a noticeable mess on the floor, it’s easy to forget to vacuum regularly. However, if you vacuum at least three times a week, you’ll notice a significant difference in the cleanliness of your carpets! When you vacuum regularly, you’ll be cleaning up the smaller dirt particles, dust, and other allergens that are hardly noticeable to the naked eye.
Now for the critical part, when you’re vacuuming, remember to slow down! When you’re vacuuming the most frequented areas of your carpet, you need to vacuum slowly and steadily. This will allow the vacuum to pick up as much debris as possible.
If you’re trying to squeeze in a quick cleaning and speed through the vacuuming, you won’t pick up all the dirt that’s hiding in your carpets.