This is just how I clean our area rugs, and let me premise the following with "these are not wool or expensive persian rugs".
These are HomeSense, Home Depot rugs.
Twice a year (Spring and Fall) I take the rugs out, hang them on the fence and pressure wash them.
Yup, high pressure water.
No soap, no scrubbing, no steam cleaners.
Water straight from the hose, shot at 1800psi.
Try this at your own risk.
For my home, I just figured "It's water - what damage can it do?" (as long as there's no wool content of course)
See the difference?!
What about along the seam that holds the fringe?Hopefully you can see that the right is much cleaner than the left.
These are low pile rugs, but I do have other ones that have a bit higher pile and watching the winter salt and dirt come out of those is even more satisfying.
If only you could duct tape your children to the fence and clean them with a pressure washer?! lol
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Rugs look great. John pressure washes the patio in the spring and its amazing the amount of dirt that comes off. You have so much energy that by the time I have read your blog I need a nap. Today I will wash down the kitchen cupboards as the sander was used on the wall above our new countertop and there's dust all over. Don't mind as the new countertop looks fantastic.
ReplyDeleteThat's hilarious...I use the pressure washer for everything. Somebody on fb sent me a recipe using hydrogen peroxide and dawn for spot removers....it is AMAZING and fast! I wonder what would happen if you used a combination of both...spritz it with the mixture and pressure wash the whole thing!
ReplyDeleteI've seen that recipe too - that's brilliant!
ReplyDeleteI'll have to take the Spring-wash photos using that recipe and show you if it works better.