Steps
- Mix some powder laundry detergent with some water; use common sense with how much you're mixing. Mix together with a cloth.
- Vacuum your rug. Once over is good enough, and start from a corner.
- Wipe down a small area of the carpet with the cloth to make it damp, and collect any lint from the top.
- Scrub the area gently with the scrub brush until clean.
- Throw down some old towels or sheets so the carpet doesn't get dirty, and to soak up excess liquid.
- Replace your soapy water with fresh clear water after finishing the entire area.
- Go over the cleaned areas with just water and the scrub brush to remove any excess soap, then let it dry. It will dry faster with fans or open windows.
- When it's done, your carpet will smell like the detergent you used and will be sparkling clean.
- Try extremely hard to remove all detergent from the carpet, as the excess detergent will pick up soil very quickly.
- Be sure to vacuum when it's dry to fluff it up.
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- Use a clean towel and dab up the excess spill
- Pour a 1/4 cup of cool water on spill/area
- Dab spot with clean towel, DO NOT rub towel across area because that will only make the mess larger.
- Keep dabbing and adding a little more water until area appears clean.
- Go over the area again (dabbing only) with another clean towel to ensure that most of the water has been cleaned up.
Video
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Warnings
- Don't soak your carpet too much or it will take way too long to dry and may soak through to the underlay and rot your floor.
- Be sure that you have time to clean and dry your carpet without other people tracking more dirt in.
Things You'll Need
- water
- clean towels
- scrub brush
- laundry detergent (powder) **Use only for heavily soiled areas
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