I have hard floors, and a couple of large area rugs - which we love. ;)
Unfortunately, after a little dog living with us and several years of foot traffic - one of our rugs was in REALLY bad shape. We cleaned the rug with commercial carpet cleaners and it worked, temporarily. Unfortunately, after a few weeks, some dark spots started appearing all over the carpet - wherever the rug cleaner had been applied. See the not so pretty picture below. It looks like something has been spilled & splashed all over the carpet, but it hasn't.
And, that's just a small portion. The entire carpet was this bad (or worse).So, I found a recipe for making my own cleaning solution. I used 1/4 cup of white vinegar, 1/4 cup of laundry detergent (I used Simplicity - "free") and about 1.5 cups of warm water. Then I grabbed an old tooth brush, and got to scrubbing....surprisingly, I didn't have to scrub for long!
Finally, I let the solution set, and vacuumed over it after it was dry. What I ended up with was amazing! The results were fantastic. I was so pleased, I wanted to share it with you.
This was the cheapest & easiest carpet cleaning experience ever. Hope it works for you too!
2 comments:
That's fantastic. My sister and her bf had a bottle of wine bust open all over their apt in Chicago so I will tell her about this.
This is seriously good. I keep spilling paints and tea now and then...now I know what to do..!!
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