Video: Spot Cleaning Your Carpet

DUBLIN — Host, Sarah Rutan: If your carpet has unsightly spots, you’ll be glad to know there’s a simple way to remove these yourself. Today we’re in Dublin with Diamond Certified Expert Contributor Curt Holman of Precision Cleaning Services to learn more.

Diamond Certified Expert Contributor, Curt Holman: Today I wanted to talk to you a little bit about spot cleaning your own carpet at home or in your office. The important thing when you’re spot cleaning is that you pick a good spot cleaning agent. A good spot cleaner such as Avenge Spotter is great. Or one that you can get over the counter is called Folex, F-O-L-E-X. The important thing of a good spotter is that it be a neutral pH and not be really soapy or really heavily concentrated.

When you have your spotter, go ahead and take a wet rag. And you can put some of the spotter on the rag or directly on the stain and gently rub it into the carpet stain. Feather it in different directions as you clean. And then when you think you have it pretty clean, go ahead and take a dry cloth, like this, and feather it in. Again, you’re trying to get it fairly dry. You don’t want to over-scrub or use a heavy scrub brush when you spot clean your carpet.

To get your spot clean to be effective, it’s important that you dry it quickly. So, besides using neutral pH, the other key to drying your carpet is to put a fan on it real quickly and let it dry for an hour or two. And if you do these steps, you’ll find you have a real good result for your spot cleaning at home.

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