Tips from experienced housewives on how to properly clean carpet with snow

Carpets, paths, carpets have firmly entered the interior of the house. Keeping your carpet clean in summer is easy. One or two vacuums per week are sufficient.

In winter, when white, fluffy snow lies outside, there is nothing better than using it for carpet cleaning.

Having familiarized yourself with the rules on how to clean the carpet with snow in advance, you can quickly achieve the desired result - radiant cleanliness and frosty freshness of the carpet.

Training

Before you take the palace out into the street, it must be properly prepared... Dust and debris are removed from the carpet with a vacuum cleaner, if necessary, the pile is wiped with a damp cloth.

Using the advice of experienced housewives, the process of cleaning the carpet with snow will be quick and easy:

1. Pretreating the carpet with an antistatic agent will help to quickly remove any debris that has adhered to the fleecy surface.
2. Dark colored carpets can be treated with damp tea leaves before cleaning. It is enough to sprinkle the tea leaves over the carpet, and after fifteen minutes sweep it off with a broom.

   Such manipulations will help preserve and enhance the deep dark color of the carpet.

3. The method of "bathing in salt" will help to remove some of the dirt from the pile. The fleecy surface is sprinkled with coarse kitchen salt and then swept away with a damp broom. During the cleaning process, the broom must be rinsed several times in hot water.

Cleansing by touching

Algorithm of actions:

1. The palace is laid face up on freshly fallen snow.
2. The fleecy surface of the carpet is covered with snow, after which it is necessary to walk on the carpet for five minutes. In the process of walking, the carpet is well crushed into the snow cover.
3. A layer of snow is again poured onto the fleecy surface, after which, using a mop, the carpet is cleaned of dust, dirt and other contaminants.
4. The remnants of snow are swept away with a broom.
5. The final stage - the carpet is shaken and hung on the crossbar. After two to three hours, soaked in frosty freshness, it can be brought into the house and laid on the floor.

Knockout cleaning

Algorithm of actions:

• The palace is laid on the freshly fallen snow cover with the fleecy side down.
• A layer of snow is laid on the carpet.It is important that the surface of the carpet is covered with snow evenly.
• With the help of a flexible beater, the carpet is tapped (hand movements are sharp, not sweeping).
• The carpet is turned over and lined with a new patch of clean snow.
• Another snowball is thrown over the fleecy surface and cleaned with a brush with a short nap or an elastic broom.
• If the carpet is small, shake it by grasping the corners. Large carpets are outweighed over the crossbar and well knocked out with a beater. By wrapping a plastic beater with a terry cloth, you can avoid the problem of deformation of the pile.
• A clean carpet is brought into the house and spread on the floor.

How to do snowball cleaning at home?

If the carpet is so large that it cannot be carried outside and spread on the snow, snow cleaning can be done at home. The main thing is to clearly adhere to a certain sequence of actions. Otherwise, the risks of damage to the carpet are high.

Algorithm of actions:

1. Preparatory stage... The area of ​​the floor on which the carpet will be laid out must be freed from foreign pieces of furniture, covered with polyethylene. Palace is pre-vacuumed.

   In the room where the cleaning will take place, all windows open and the door closes. The lower the air temperature in the room, the slower the snow will melt, minimizing the risks of getting wet and damaging the carpet.

2. Face cleaning... The palace is laid on the floor with the fleecy side up. A thin layer of pure snow is scattered over the surface of the carpet. It is important to do this as quickly as possible so that the snow does not have time to melt. As soon as the snow is scattered over the surface of the carpet, you can start knocking out. After this process is over, the carpet is vacuumed or broomed to remove any remaining debris.
3. Cleaning the wrong side... After the front side of the carpet is cleaned, the product is turned over to the wrong side and the same actions described in paragraph 2 are carried out.
4. The final stage is drying... The palace is turned over on the front side and left to dry completely in the room.

Is this procedure effective?

Subject to all the recommendations and the sequence of actions for cleaning the carpet with snow, you can achieve an amazing result of freshness and purity:

• Low temperatures disinfect the coating, kill dust mites and other parasites that have accumulated between the villi.
• Do-it-yourself snow cleaning will save you a lot of money that could be spent on expensive (but, unfortunately, not always effective) chemical cleaners.
• Cleaning the carpet in the fresh air is a pleasant opportunity to remove extra centimeters at the waist (burn extra calories), usefully, have fun with the whole family.

Important rules and prohibitions

Cleaning the carpet with snow will help freshen the paint, destroy moth larvae and dust mites, and fluff up the crumpled areas of the fleecy surface.

If there are traces of animal activity on the carpet, then after cleaning on the snow cover, the unpleasant smell can only intensify.

In order to evaluate the effectiveness of cleaning carpet with snow, it is important to adhere to some rules:

• it is possible to process a fleecy surface only with loose snow;
• you can achieve perfect cleanliness and freshness only by using clean, freshly fallen snow, which has not yet had time to be covered with particles of dust, exhaust and other debris;
• the place for knocking out the carpet must be chosen away from dog walking areas, paths in the park, with a snow cover of at least 15 cm;
• before cleaning, carpets must be thoroughly vacuumed;
• active carpet cleaning will help to avoid injury, creases of the pile;
• knocking out the carpet after processing with snow is a prerequisite for high-quality cleaning.
• You can return the shine of a carpet brushed with a snowball if you walk over the surface (against the pile) with a rag dipped in turpentine.

Prohibitions:

• do not clean the carpet with melted snow;
• do not throw snow and ice on a fleecy surface;
• cleaning with snow and detergents cannot be combined;
• it is not necessary to bring the carpet into the house immediately after cleaning on the street; it is necessary to hold it in the cold for at least another five to six hours;
• Snow cleaning of silk carpets is strictly prohibited.

Useful video

The video will tell you how to properly clean the carpet in the snow:

Conclusion

Having carefully studied and adhering to the simple recommendations for cleaning the carpet with snow, the work will be done quickly and efficiently. This type of cleaning allows you to achieve an amazing effect of frosty freshness and cleanliness. with minimal cost and maximum pleasure from the cleaning process.