Carpets (and all floors in general) take quite a beating every day. You track outdoor debris through them daily, they catch all the things you drop or spill. Of course, those of you with kids, pets or both know that the mess multiplies exponentially depending on how many of each you have and their size.

You know a steam cleaner is one of the best ways to give your carpet a deep clean; you’ve heard it from plenty of people, but maybe it sounds too expensive or too clunky. We understand entirely, and that’s why we’re going to give you some tips for cleaning your carpet to make your life a little easier.

Regular Cleaning

We don’t mean to insult you with this one. It’s common for people to underestimate how often they should clean or how to get the best out of their vacuum. There honestly are several tricks to vacuuming your carpets that would help you keep on top of dirt.

1. Vacuum your house one time a week for every person or twenty pounds of pet you have. By this we mean that if you have three people and one cat in your house, you should vacuum three times a week. If you have a forty pound dog and live alone, you should still vacuum three times a week. This’ll help keep on top of dander.

For those sort of regular upkeep we don’t suggest cleaning every part of your home, even under sofas. You should concentrate on areas of heavy traffic. If you have a young child or baby, it may be a good idea to do a quick vacuum every day because little children can eat dust bunnies.

2. Vacuum horizontally and vertically. Carpet fibres are twisted and will catch small fragments of dirt in them that can’t easily be removed. You should vacuum vertically and then horizontally as it will get at all angles of the fibres. The added benefit of doing this is that it’ll help undo some of the crush damage done to your carpet. What’s crush damage? After a carpet’s been in place for a few years you can tell where the main path is because of the way that the fibres lie flatter than the others.

Spot Cleaning

Sometimes you simply spill something and need to act fast to clean it up before it stains. It’s happened to everyone. Before we go further, we’ll say that spot cleaning only works for fresh stains on a small patch of carpet after something like a food spill. The best way to go about spot cleaning is to:

• Use a plain white cloth; patterned or dyed rags may transfer dye to your carpet
• Blot the stain dry with your cloth. Discard this cloth and use a second one for the rest of the process.
• Use an appropriate carpet cleaner based on the type of stain and the carpet you have. If you’re dealing with bodily fluids you’ll need special cleaners.
• If the stain is blood, then you should use cold water or hydrogen peroxide if the stain is wet. If it’s dry use a hydrogen peroxide cleaner, followed by an enzyme based cleaner.
• For pet urine or other animal droppings, so straight to an enzyme based cleaner. If it’s already set use a vinegar-water solution to blot it, then use detergent and water.

You should avoid scrubbing the carpet to prevent wear and tear. After you’ve used the detergent you should use your second clean cloth soaked in water to blot up any remaining suds or mess. Don’t soak the carpet. If you soak the carpet clean through you run the risk of mould developing in the underlayer. Dry the area thoroughly.

Use A Powder Cleaner

By far the easiest way to do a more thorough clean of the entire carpet is to use a powder cleaner. Even baking soda works quite well and it doubles as a deodoriser as well. Here’s the best way to do it:

• First, do a normal vacuum of your carpet to pick up most of the everyday dirt.
  Sprinkle the powder liberally over your carpet, taking care to hit to neglected corners and crannies.
• Leave the powder for at least thirty minutes. Leaving it overnight gives the powder even more time to soften up the stains and soak up the smells.
• Vacuum up the powder when done.

Use Carpet Shampoo

This is similar to the powder cleaner we just mentioned, though with a few downsides. For this method, you will not need a steam cleaner or other equipment.

• Purchase your carpet clean and follow the instructions to create the right mixture.
• Cover the carpet in the shampoo but again, do not let it soak too long. It’ll waste detergent and increase drying time.
• Scrub at any stubborn stains using a white cloth or soft bristled brush.
• Let the carpet dry.
• Vacuum up the shampoo.

The main downsides to this method when compared to powder cleaner is that you’ll have to close off the area for much longer in order to let the carpet dry. Wet or damp carpets can catch dirt more easily as well, so if you do need to cross the carpet you’ll have to go barefoot, in socks or wear bags over your feet. It would also be difficult to clean a whole carpet this way without a steam cleaner. We recommend you use it on larger or older stains.

Conclusion

As you can see, keeping on top of a regular vacuuming schedule and doing spot cleaning as often as you can you’ll be able to keep your carpet in much better condition without having to resort to a steam cleaner. However, for exceptionally dirty carpets or very difficult stains, we would still recommend hiring a steam cleaning or a professional cleaning crew to tend to your carpet.

Feel free to contact us for quotes on our services. We offer same day and next day services as well as others.

Many business owners all over the world have implemented commercial safes for their respective businesses, to increase security on their valuable assets. Commercial safes are now the ideal way of protecting any valuable thing a business owner considers to be of importance because it safeguards important properties from burglars, water, fire, or any other accident or incidence that may result in the loss of their valuable property.

Commercial safes over the years have proven to be the most ideal way of protection for business owners. Of course, there are reasons that will make you value them also. So, perhaps you are considering the installation of commercial safes also, here are some advantages you are definitely going to enjoy. Let’s take a look at them…

Easy access to your money

Instead of having to take the money you make to the bank for deposit every day, or leaving them open to theft in your office, you can keep them well secured in a safe that is inaccessible to everyone. While your expectation might be that the cash you make each day is safe from any burglar, what about your staff? A commercial safe secures your cash from anyone you wish to hide it from.

Maximum security for highly valued files and documents

Just as the use of a safe is wide, you should put into consideration the purpose and essence of a safe you would be going for. There are files you will probably need to keep secure for years, perhaps in your office or house, and some you will need to keep for just a few days but are very important. For this reason, the files you need to keep secured for years should be much more difficult to access than the ones you need to keep secured for a few days or weeks before you need them. Commercial safes offer you a lot of options in size, weight, types, and time considerations.

It gives you control over access to certain assets in your company

Improving your company’s security with commercial safes by Houston Safe and Lock gives you alone the access to certain places and assets you wish to restrict everyone else from. Even in your absence, commercial safes give you a rest of mind that everything you’ve left behind is safe; because without you accessing it, no one else can, as most safes come with electronic lock.

The difficulty of moving the safes makes it difficult to be stolen

Apart from commercial safes being difficult to be discovered, they are difficult to be moved due to their usual heavy weight. Most burglars try to move safes they find difficult to open, but the weight is often a challenge. And this is why if truly what you plan to have in your safe is very important, then you should have a heavy one of hundreds or perhaps thousands of kilograms installed. That depends entirely on you.

In business, risk-taking is an option to consider only when investing. Don’t risk what can hurt your company with poor security. Commercial safes are the most reliable options.

In the last few months of 2018, social media companies have been accused of picking sides and seen as sidelining certain political views and the users who do their very best promote them. Rule changes on Twitter saw many far right accounts shut down.  Mike Cernovich, Laura Loomer and Jack Posobiec among many others have had their Medium accounts shut down and any right leaning Youtube channel that covers any of a multitude of topics from 9-11 to moon hoax to flat earth  have all been shut down or demonetized. The biggest name of all among alt-right content creators; Alex Jones’s Infowars YouTube channel, with more than 2 million subscribers was also shut down across all major tech sites on the same day. Some see this as a removal of hate speech, others see it as an erosion of the 1st amendment of the constitution.

At the same time the top trending videos every day on Youtube are often members of the LGBTQ community giving make up tutorials. Most fair minded people regardless of their political views see this a s a political move by the tech giants as a stifling of opposition narratives that could be considered just as much of an election interference as anything Russia did in 2016 but has thus far gone largely unacknowledged by the liberal mainstream media who seem happy to speak out of both sides of their mouth.

Earlier this month, Donald Trump who for the most part has been busy with other issues and not spoken too much about the curation or organic content within the search engine results page has at last began talking about adding pressure to the tech giants plate to ensure equal opportunity is allowed for fair content creators who are trying to win either at content marketing, SEO or social media content across the United States and wider world.

Seems fair to say that until his message has been taken on board and changed to their policies have been made, if you want to rank well on Google in 2019 and beyond, it is probably a good idea to let the content author be a female from a minority group that is left leaning and ideally from an LGBTQ community. More than this, they should be anti guns, anti Donald Trump and certainly offer no support for alt-right conspiracy theories.