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Carpet Care

Your carpet will last longer and look better if you follow the recommended maintenance programme and especially:

vacuum regularly - at least once a week
and more often in heavy traffic areas.
never rub, brush or massage the carpet
pile when it is damp or wet.

A regular maintenance program has the following important purposes:-

To remove soil and dirt from the surface of the carpet, for both appearance and hygiene reasons.
To preserve the original texture of the carpet.
To increase the life span of the carpet.

Soiling, more often than not, occurs as the result of particles of dirt being walked into the carpet from some external source. Clearly, prevention is better than cure, and effective door mats should be considered as a barrier to soiling.
Staining results from the chemical bonding of a pigment with the wool fibre. Once this bonding has taken place removal can be extremely difficult without causing some damage to the carpet pile, therefore prompt action to spills is desirable.

The cleaning programme should be proportional to the carpet's exposure to soiling, but in any event frequent and moderate cleaning is preferable to harsh treatment likely to be required because of infrequent care.

Besides soiling and staining, a carpet can be disfigured by indentations caused by heavy furniture and by burns from dropped cigarettes and failing embers.

To avoid indentations, place furniture cups under the legs of heavy chairs, sofas and tables and regularly shift the furniture a few inches one way or another to give the pile a chance to recover. To accelerate recovery, slightly dampen - but DO NOT RUB - the indented wool pile.

To remedy cigarette damage on a wool carpet, just brush off the charred tips with your fingers or a coin.