A Guide to Restoring Furniture

Here are two carpet restoration tips for those with old carpets that they'd like to spruce up.

They should not clean their own carpets with a rented carpet-cleaning machine

One of the most obvious ways to give some old carpets a makeover is to clean them. Although there are plenty of carpet cleaning machines available to rent, those with old carpets that aren't in good condition should not use these machines. Instead, they should get in touch with a carpet cleaning company and get their carpets professionally washed. The reason for this is that although rentable carpet cleaning machines can be safely used on carpets that are made of durable materials and are fairly new, they can cause lots of damage to old, delicate carpets if they're used by people with no carpet cleaning experience.

In this situation, the old carpets will need to be cleaned by someone who has ample experience with cleaning all kinds of carpets and who knows, therefore, what heat setting to select on their steam cleaner, to sanitise a delicate, frayed carpet, without inflicting heat damage on its old fibres. A professional cleaner will also be able to select cleaning products for this task that will sanitise the old carpets and remove stains from them, without damaging their most threadbare areas. They will also understand what suction setting to use on their wet-dry vacuum to dry out the carpets in a way that won't cause any further fibre breakage.

They should wait until their carpets have been cleaned before having threadbare areas patched up

People with worn carpets will often use a carpet patching service to fill in the parts of their carpets that have frayed so much that they've developed holes or to fix the carpet fibres that have broken and are much shorter in some areas than in others. However, anyone who's thinking of doing this should ensure that they prioritise having their old carpets cleaned beforehand. The reason for this is that if the carpets are old and haven't undergone a deep cleaning in years, not only will the patching up of the carpets be an unpleasant and unsanitary experience for the carpet patching specialist (they may even refuse to work on a carpet that they suspect is very unclean) but they might also be unable to clearly see the condition of the carpet fibres they need to work on.

As such, it's important for those who want to give their old carpets a makeover to ensure that they have them thoroughly washed and sanitised before getting them patched up, so all of the possibly hazardous bacteria is removed from them, and the carpet patching specialist can easily evaluate the state of each carpets' fibres.

For more information, contact a carpet cleaning service near you.