Tips on Taking Good Care of Your Green Rugs

Natural area rugs like sisal rugs, seagrass rugs and bamboo rugs require to be take care to maintain its natural appearance and beauty that will paint your home with great style and color. The following are the tips I gathered from the net, specially from a website linked on this blog. Before I start with the tips, make sure that the following materials are already on your hand for different purposes regarding cleaning and maintaining rugs' stain less appearances.

1. Clean White Towels
2. Dry Carpet Cleaning Powder
3. Household brush
4. A spray bottle

Remember in cleaning rugs like the sisal rugs and seagrass rugs, blot up first the spills. Do not rub the natural rugs excessively. Don't soak the area with the spills. Pat it dry after cleaning or use a fan or a blow dryer to dry it. The recommended recipes that is considered to be effective yet not harmful to the environment is the mixture of 1 teaspoon of clear dish washing liquid soap with one cup of lukewarm water or a mix of vinegar and water in 1 is to 2 ratio.

These are just practical tips that you can perform within your home but doesn't guarantee that will work on every kind of "spills/stains situation." If you are not sure and if you think that the stain is too difficult to remove by this simple steps, I suggest that you get a professional cleaner of these natural rugs for your homes.

DIY: Cleaning your Sisal Rugs

Now do you have a sisal rugs stuck on your dining room or any part of your house and it started to become dirty through the years or life of usage and you want to clean it yourself? Well first you need to determine what type of rugs do you have in your home. Is it synthetic or natural sisal rug? If it is synthetic, the usual method to clean it is through hot-water extraction or dry cleaning method as per recommended by the manufacturer of this rugs. Now, for the natural fiber-sisal rugs, the usual recommended way of cleaning it is through dry-cleaning only. It is not recommended that you use steam-clean or wet shampoo. It is because excessive liquid or dampness on the rugs may cause it to shrink or crumple which is not good for rugs appearance.

Removing stain from it should be done lightly using cleaning solution recommended by the manufacturer. It should not be applied directly but use a white towel to gently remove the said stains. I know that this should be done elaborately with high care. That is why it is better that the rugs should be applied with fabric protectants so that fibers of the rugs are protected from foreign dirt. Use only fabric protectant that is recommended by the manufacturers.