Cleaning wool area rugs is one important skill. To give us greater mileage of wool area rugs, it is best to undertake some cleaning and maintenance on out part. The following article will give you tips on how to clean and maintain wool area rugs.

As part of our cleaning routine, we should vacuum our wool area rugs at least once a week. This is not difficult to achieve and we should make it as part of our weekly habit. It is a common mistake for rug owners to ignore their wool rugs until it is too late. I am also guilty of such neglect but have soon learn my lesson. If you wait until your wool area rug becomes old and dirty looking, it will be too late to do anything about it. Hence, do ensure to vacuum your woolen rugs often to maintain their condition and cleanliness.

Beyond this weekly cleaning routine, you should also hire a professional carpet cleaner once a year to treat the wool area rugs professionally. You might think that this is not necessary but the small fees you incurred can be recovered by not buying more woolen rugs in the near term. When hiring a professional cleaner, ensure that they used a low moisture solution to treat your wool rugs. Not every cleaner is experienced in treating different materials of rugs so it is better that you at least know what to look for. If you ask my recommendation, I would suggest to hire cleaners that have some experiences in doing wool area rugs cleaning. You can do so via your friends or look online and search for cleaners with experiences.

In the event that somebody spill drinks or liquids onto your wool area rugs, this will be then get a bit tricky. Fortunately, wool area rugs, by the nature of their fibers, are stain resistant. Their fibers have natural oils that can repel stains effectively. However, you still need to do quick cleaning when spillage occurs to avoid permanent stains.
When a spillage occurs, immediately use a dry tissue to remove as much of the liquid as possible. do note not to rub the spillage into the wool area rugs. Rather, you should use a circular motion that gently picks up the liquid. The typical mistake people have is to rub the spillage into the rugs, rather than just absorbing the liquid.

Once that is done, you should proceed to the following step. If the stain is oil based, you can get a tissue that is soaked in water and gently rub the stain away. If the stain is non oil based, you can use a normal liquid detergent and repeat the same circular motion to remove stain. If the spillage isn’t too serious, these methods should be able to work. However, if it is a serious stain, I suggest you buy the carpet cleaning kit as soon as you can or send in to a professional carpet cleaner for help to clean wool rugs.

That is all to it for cleaning wool area rugs.