Tip 1: Padding is important, ideally no more than 7/16-inch thick, unless your carpet came with it attached. Also use pads under small rugs, and rotate them from time to time.
Tip 2: In areas that get a lot of sun exposure, keep your drapes or curtains closed to prevent fading or browning.
Tip 3: Leave dirt outside. You may feel a bit uneasy about asking guests to remove their shoes, but by leaving footwear at the door, you keep the dirt out. In addition, take the time to sweep your home’s sidewalks, and at the very least invest in heavy-duty doormats to prevent excess dirt from entering the house.
Tip 4: Confine all snacking to the kitchen. Your family may protest this rule, but it’s the only way to prevent spills from staining your carpeting. Sauces, chocolate and juices are lethal to your carpet’s aesthetic value. If food does find its way to your carpet, be sure to clean it up immediately.
Tip 5: Run the vacuum often. In high-traffic areas, carpets should be vacuumed daily. In less-traveled areas, vacuum one to two times per week. Vacuuming often will remove damaging dirt from the fibers. Buy an upright vacuum fitted with beater bars.
Tip 6: Keep your socks on. While walking without shoes will help to make your carpet last longer, you shouldn’t walk on your carpeting with bare feet. The oils present on the skin will stick to carpet fibers and attract dirt and grime.
Tip 7: Change the room’s layout often. To break up the same old traffic pattern and to avoid wearing the carpeting down in the same spots, move your furniture around. This will create new foot traffic and your whole carpet will last longer, not just one area.
Tip 8: Call in the professionals at Carpet Cleaning Madison. You should hire a reputable carpet cleaning company to service your carpets at least once or twice per year. Make sure they have the equipment that won’t leave detergent in the fibers.

These tips also apply to Upholstery Cleaning Madison WI.

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Most carpet cleaners in Madison WI don’t offer this service. When repairing bleach stains make sure you are only dealing with a certified professional. Also check out our page on removing blood from carpet.

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You Will Need:

* Cleaning solution
- Wool: 1 teaspoon mild, non-alkali detergent with 1 cup cold water
- Synthetics: 2 tablespoons household ammonia with 1 cup cold water
- Oriental: 1 part white vinegar with 2 parts cold water
* Clean white towels
* Spray bottle (for cleaning solution)
* Rinsing Solution:
- 2-6 drops mild, non-alkali dish detergent with 1 cup cold water
* Water bottle

How to Remove the Stain:

Step 1: Begin by blotting with a clean cloth to remove as much of the blood as possible. It’s very important to BLOT throughout this entire process DO NOT SCRUB. Your goal is to “lift” the stain, not rub it into the fibers. Working from the outside of the stain towards the center will keep the stain from spreading.
Step 2: Spray stain with cold water and blot to remove as much of the stain as possible.
Step 3: Spray a small amount of cleaning solution on the stain. Then blot with a clean dry cloth until no more stain shows on the cloth. You will need to change your cloth often or use a clean patch of the towel each time as you are blotting to be sure you are not spreading the stain. Repeat until the stain is no longer noticeable.
Step 4: Spray with rinsing solution and blot with clean cloth to remove. Then spray with clean water.

Step 5: Cover stain with clean cloth or stack of paper towels and put heavy weight on top (heavy books, etc.). Leave set for several hours to absorb any remaining liquid. Remove weights and cloths and let area air dry. If the spot turns brown when it dries, mix 1 part vinegar with 2 parts water. Apply the solution on the dried spot and blot to dry. This can be repeated ONE time.

If all else fails call your local carpet cleaning professional. Most professionals will have industrial grade solutions to remove blood stains from carpet. Also visit our page on cleaning candle wax from carpet.

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Candle wax is is a tough one, but it is a very common problem. You will need paper towels and an electric iron. Very absorbent paper towels are recommended for the best results. Use white towels only as dyes may bleed onto the carpet when exposed to the heat of the iron.

Before beginning the procedure, use a brush or your hands to pick away at any of the excess wax that you can get out of the carpet fiber. Be gentle and be careful not to unravel the pile when brushing.

Step by Step

Step 1: Plug the iron in and turn it on to the lowest setting possible.

Step 2: After the iron heats up, take a paper towel and place it over the wax. Gently apply the warm iron to the paper towel. The wax should begin to liquefy and the paper towel will absorb it. Do not set the temperature of the iron any higher than the warm setting, or you may harm synthetic fibers. For berber or some sculptured carpets, you may have to press down harder with the iron. Be especially careful with the berbers and do not pull on any fibers or loops. Pulling on those loops can cause a “run” much like the runs in panty hose and can ruin the rug, as the run will travel across the length of the carpet.

Step 3: Continue working the iron and paper towel until all of the wax is absorbed. You may need to turn the paper towel several times as the area where the wax is being absorbed becomes saturated. If it is a large spill you may need more than one paper towel. The watch word here is patience, as working this process can take time.

To remove stains left from colored wax, try gently dabbing the stain with a rag dampened with rubbing alcohol.

If you have tried all the above steps and you still have some wax in your carpet you may wish to call a professional carpet cleaning company.

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Step by Step

Step 1: Heat the gum, being careful not to melt the carpet fibers. Its a good idea to test in an inconspicuous area first, such as the inside corner of a closet.
Step 2: Use a piece of plastic wrap or a plastic bag to lift the softened gum away. Just allow it to stick to the plastic, then pull it up. This may get most of it.
Step 3: Next, apply Extra Strength Ben Gay, or another muscle rub containing methyl salicylate. Again, test this in an inconspicuous area first.

Step 4: Use plastic again, or a rag to pull more gum out. Repeat if necessary. Once you completely remove the chewing gum from the carpet, clean the area with a mild detergent solution (a few drops of dish soap in a cup of warm water will work). Rinse with warm water and dry the area.

Using Commercial Carpet Stain Removers

Some common carpet stain removers will work to remove chewing gum from carpet. Goo Gone, in particular, works fairly well. Pull out as much gum as you can, then heat what remains. Apply Goo Gone, using a brush or the edge of the cap to work it in and break up the gum. Pick it out a piece at a time. Patience is required. Repeat the process until you remove all the gum. If the gum has been sitting for months or years you may need to contact a carpet cleaning Madison WI professional.
Be sure to thoroughly rinse the spot. Use a shop-vac if you can, or just rinse and blot with a white cotton cloth repeatedly. It is important not to leave any cleaning solvent in your carpet for too long, and to rinse it completely.

If you cannot remove the chewing gum from the carpet using either of the two methods here, don’t worry. A carpet cleaner with a hot water extraction unit (a steam cleaner) can get usually get it out. Also check out our tips for removing coffee stains from carpet.

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Plan A: Tonic Water

Step 1: Start by blotting up as much of the liquid as you possibly can, using a white towel or paper towels. If you have a wet or shop vacuum that works even better.
Step 2: Once the excess liquid has been absorbed, sprinkle the stain with your choice of tonic water, 7-Up, or club soda. Make sure you use a liberal amount and let it stand for about five minutes.
Step 3: Next, blot with a towel or extract with the shop vac to remove the liquid. Repeat the cleaning process as many times as necessary to remove the moisture. Finally, rinse the area with clean water and go through the blotting/extracting process a final time to remove excess liquid.

Plan B: Hydrogen Peroxide

Step 1: Sprinkle the coffee stain with hydrogen peroxide, letting it stand for four to six hours.
Step 2: Blot up as much of the peroxide as you can and then reapply more
Step 3: This time let it stand overnight. In the morning, blot off any excess peroxide. Sometimes hydrogen peroxide has a “bleaching effect” so be sure to first test on an inconspicuous area such as the inside corner of a closet.
If all else fails call your Madison carpet cleaning professional, but don’t wait too long because the difference between a spot and a stain is how long its been sitting on the carpet.

We also have tips for cleaning red wine from carpet.

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Plan A

Step 1: Drizzle a combination of Dawn dish soap and hydrogen peroxide (must use both) on the spot.
Step 2: Blot with a clean dry cloth until no more stain shows on the cloth. You will need to change your cloth often or use a clean patch of the towel each time as you are blotting to be sure you are not spreading the stain.
Step 3: Rinse with warm water and let dry.

Plan B

Step 1: Begin by blotting with a clean cloth to remove as much of the wine as possible. It’s very important to BLOT throughout this entire process DO NOT SCRUB. Your goal is to “lift” the stain, not rub it into the fibers. Working from the outside of the stain towards the center will keep the stain from spreading.
Step 2: Apply white wine tonic water to the stain. If it is a wool carpet use white wine only.
Step 3: Blot with a clean dry cloth until no more stain shows on the cloth. You will need to change your cloth often or use a clean patch of the towel each time as you are blotting to be sure you are not spreading the stain.
If all else fails call your local professional carpet cleaner and make sure they use a hot water extraction process to remove red wine.

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Commandment II: Get at stains quickly, 99% of all stains can be removed by one cleaning agent or another if they are cleaned in the first few days. The longer a stain chemically reacts with the carpet the harder it will be to remove it.

Commandment III: Test carpet before scrubbing, extracting or spotting. All carpets are different. Some carpets are very sensitive to acid type cleaners and will lose their color quickly. Other carpet dyes are sensitive to harsh alkalis.

Commandment IV: Use appropriate spotters starting with the mildest. Do not use harsh spotting agents unless absolutely necessary and always neutralize high alkaline or high acid cleaners after use.

Commandment V: Never dig or brush spots. The proper procedure is to scrape the spot towards the middle and then tamp the spot into the white towel or cloth using a brush or other tamping devices. A meat tenderizer makes a great tamping tool.

Commandment VI: Do not overuse detergents, shampoos or spotters. Too much detergent will result in residual left in the carpet that even thorough vacuuming may not remove.

Commandment VII: Do not over-wet carpet. Our carpet detergents are chemically active enough so they do not need a tremendous amount of wetting. Over-wetting can cause brownout, carpet shrinkage, adhesion problems and all other kinds of nightmares.

Commandment VIII: Extract residual if possible. Rotary scrubbing will clean the carpet fibers the best by encapsulating dirt and detergent residue, which powders off the carpet. Periodic extraction will flush out this dirt and other organisms deep in the carpet.

Commandment IX: Never “coat” a dirty or spotty carpet. After scrubbing or extracting a dirty carpet, if you are not satisfied with the results, do not apply a coat of carpet protector as this will result in “gluing in the dirt” making it harder to remove it the next time. Either re-scrub or extract the carpet or leave the carpet until the next cleaning cycle before you coat.

Commandment X: Have your carpets treated by professional Madison carpet cleaners at least once per year depending on traffic from kids and/or pets.

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