Ice or snow
Wool hardened by heavy furniture with ice. You need to get some ice cubes out of the freezer and put them on those parts of the carpet that you want to restore. Wrap ice pack can not be, it must melt right on the carpet. After freezing and wetting, the nap softens and easily assumes its original position. To help him straighten up, you can use a fork or a thin stick.
In this way it is important not to overdo it with ice. A lot of water may cause the pile carpet and floor covering to deteriorate. Therefore, use small cubes in a small amount( 2-4 pieces at each site).
Clean the carpet well and lift the pile in winter. If you bring the interior to the street and clean it with snow, then its appearance will improve significantly. The snow perfectly absorbs dirt, refreshes villi, straightens them. Unfortunately, not everyone has the possibility of such cleansing.
Cleaning with salt
Use salt to pick up a stuck pile and refresh it.
- sprinkle coarse salt over the carpet;
- let it lie down for a few minutes, absorb the dust;
- wet a broom or brush in water and sweep the salt.
Residues of dirt are vacuumed or by knocking out carpet. Similarly, you can clean the product with a long pile with sawdust. Sawdust does not take coniferous trees, so that they do not have resin.
Steam or
A steam iron helps to soften and lift a nap. A jet of steam must be sent to the flattened place and hold for 3-4 seconds. When you work with an iron, make sure that the hot surface does not touch the carpet. Otherwise, you face a final damage with a burnt spot or a melted nap.
It is convenient to comb the pile with a comb or brush with stiff bristles. You can use a comb with rare, but strong teeth.
If you are afraid to use steam, then use another method. Wet the flattened area with water. Turn on the hair dryer and dry the fluffy product with a hair dryer while simultaneously raising the nap with a comb. The process is similar to drying hair and is suitable for carpets with a long and short nap.
Special products
In order to clean the soft mat well and raise a long nap in it, you must use special detergents. They penetrate deeply, dissolve dirt, with the result that the villi straighten, lie free.
Usually, before applying such a product, the carpet is vacuumed and foreign objects are removed from it. Then evenly apply a cleaning agent diluted in water and whipped into a foam. At the last stage, vacuuming is carried out again.
Clean and lift the villi with a turbo brush, so you can use it. Also sold special steam cleaners that help wash any surface. If the rug with a short nap, then using such a cleaner to refresh it and straighten the villus is not difficult.
Those who are too lazy to do home cleaning can put the carpet in the hands of specialists. Dry cleaners know how to handle fleecy products and make them look appropriate.
