Dollhouse Rugs & Carpets

How to Make Your Carpets Last

Carpet is not exactly a cheap investment. You can spend thousands of dollars to re-carpet even an average sized house. Besides money, you’ll also spend your time choosing the right kind of carpet and the perfect color. But how much time have you spent to make sure that it lasts? This article contains a few tips to help you make your rugs last for years.

The easiest and single most important thing you can do to make your carpeting last is vacuum it often. This is by far the most neglected step in carpet care. When you vacuum your carpet, you remove dangerous soil from your rugs. This soil wears and abrades the carpet fibers every time you step on it. If you do nothing else to increase your carpet life, run the vacuum over it.

Another great way to protect your carpeting is to place entry rugs wherever your carpet meets hard surface. This gives all those feet a place to transfer soil to before they walk on your rugs. Spread the rugs on the hard surface and not the carpet. If you place it on the carpeting, you might get a soil line around it.

A third method to prolong the life of your carpet is to rearrange the furniture often. It’s not as easy as the other methods but it pays off big time. By moving furniture around you change the traffic areas in the room. This keeps you and your family from wearing out the same exact area of carpet. Instead you spread the wear around.

Lastly, have your carpet professionally cleaned often. Don’t wait until it’s really grungy-dirty. Set yourself up on a cleaning schedule where you clean it on a regular schedule. If you wait too long, stains will set in that you’ll never get out and your carpet will become irreversibly worn.

These may seem like small things to do but how many people do you know who do this. I guarantee this will greatly improve the lifespan of your carpet. So take the time to take care of your carpet and you will get more years of enjoyment out of it.