It’s a simple matter of spray and wipe clean. Keep turning your white hand towel to a clean part each time you clean a step or two. So the sequence is,
Vacuum clean first
Mix your buff cleaning solution and pour into you pressure sprayer
Mix your rinse solution, 5 litres
Dowse your white hand towel into your rinse solution
Spray onto your step both top and back of the step.
Wipe clean your step with your damp white hand towel.
Move onto the next step and repeat.
This is a very simple system for stair cleaning. The idea is to remove soils before they start to show. Clean this way regularly at about every 4-8 week intervals.
Once your done with your spray and wipe all the way to the last step at the bottom of your stairway, you need to set your stair carpet for drying. You do this by rinsing out your hand towel and ringing it out to damp. Then go back to the top of your stairway. Set your carpet pile for quick drying by raising the carpet pile. You do this by simply wiping your step and back of step so that your carpet pile is raised. Set the pile on each step all the way down to the last step.And that’s all you do for stair cleaning with the carpet maintenance system. After you’ve cleaned your stairway a couple of times, you will be more confident. I expect the first time you do it, it may feel awkward. But after your first time, the next time will be familiar to you, hence it gets easier.Next we move onto cleaning stains and spots.
Cleaning stains can take up many pages of text because obviously there are so many different sorts of stain and with it you get so many stain cleaning solutions which are designed for the various stains found in the home.
To go the short rout on this, there is one solution which will be your main stain cleaner. It’s cost effective to do it this way, rather than to invest in all sorts of stain removers when your only doing your own carpets at home. There must be dozens of different solutions available for the various stains found in the home. So, lets cut the list of solutions down to just one. That solution is a multi purpose cleaning solution which will remove most household stains. That solution is available to you through your local cleaning supplies store. The term used is ‘multi purpose carpet cleaning pre-spray solution’.
Prochem who I use for all of my carpet cleaning solutions, they manufacture a solution called Multi-pro. I use it for cleaning stains. spots and traffic areas. It’s a multi purpose carpet cleaning solution and something similar will be available to you at your local cleaning supplies store, just ask.
For removing stains and spots you will need a couple of tools, plus your solution. You will need a nylon hand held scrub brush, This is used for removing stains and spots by rocking the brush on the stain or spot and not by scrubbing it. When you press the brush onto the stain, you simply rock the brush on the stain working from the outside edges of the stain and work your way into the centre of the stain.
If you use the brush to scrub at the stain, the chances of you damaging your carpet fibres is high. The best way to tackle stains is by spraying onto the stain working in from the outside edges of the stain into the centre. Work with your brush by rocking your way round the outside edges of the stain working into the centre of the stain.
You use your multi purpose pre-spray cleaning solution to clean a spot or a stain. When your done, you must neutralise the area with your rinse solution. You do this by dowsing your hand towel into the rinse solution, ring it out to damp and then blot the stain or spot from the outside edges into the centre. This will neutralise the stain cleaning solution. If you fail to neutralise your carpet after removing a stain, you could well loose colour from the area. So we must remember to neutralise any areas were we have been removing stains or spots from.
If you have a troublesome stain that you want to get rid of but find the multi purpose pre-spray solution ineffective, there’s always solutions available. The company I use they have about 25 different stain remover solutions available for the various stains found in the home. The cleaning supplies store you deal with will have similar products available to you. Just ask.
It always helps if you know what the stain is. That way, you can match it up with the right solution. But, the multi purpose pre-spray solution should be all you need.
Cleaning traffic areas,
Again for this cleaning process you use your multi purpose carpet pre-spray solution. When you are buff cleaning your carpet and you can see soiling in certain areas of your carpet. How you can tackle that is by spraying the area with your pre-spray solution. You then use a tool called a carpet pile brush. You simply agitate the pre-spray solution into the soiled areas. Then you can continue buff cleaning with the buffer machine. The buffing pad will automatically neutralise the pre-sprayed area as you buff clean.
There is a symptom in some carpets which is called greying. When your carpet has this problem, you will have an area, usually a high traffic area where, no matter how much you clean, it still looks soiled. This problem is called greying and unfortunately it is not possible to correct it. What has happened is, in the carpet fibres, old soil is locked inside the fibre itself. You can better understand this situation if you compare it to your skin. If left unwashed for awhile the pores in the skin will allow dirt inside. Once there. it is very difficult to remove it. The dirt is locked into the pores of the skin.
The very same thing happens with carpets. The fibre opens and allows soil into the fibre and the soil gets locked in. Hence, it is is not possible to unlock the fibre and remove the soil. It’s called greying and it can be caused by over wetting carpets. It is also a symptom of an ageing carpet too.
Regular carpet maintenance cleaning will eliminate this problem But if you have it already, then cleaning won’t fix it,
Here’s some pics of useful tools for stair, spot and stain cleaning and traffic area cleaning,
