As soon as someone spills something, our instinct is to pounce on that stain like a cat on a toy mouse. It feels great, doesn’t it? It’s such a relief to be dealing with the mess right away.
Well, it shouldn’t be, because scrubbing and rubbing is the worst thing that can happen to your carpets and upholstery. (The word ‘scrubbing’ also includes other aggressive actions, including rubbing, grinding and gouging.) But the right thing to do, which is to blot, is also quite easy. The right term is ‘blotting’, which means pushing down the carpet fibres then pulling them back up in the same direction.
If you’ve ever peered through a microscope at your favourite carpet or peered really closely, you’d have noticed that most carpet fibre resembles the sort of brush that would come out of a bottle. And if you really looked, you’d notice they were very, very tightly woven, just millimetres from each other. We might not know much about carpets but we do know that it takes a fraction of a second to wet them. It really does seem like your whole world is spinning during that split second, yet somehow, if you stop rubbing, you can just blot up the stain in seconds. You have just enough time to realise that you could prevent the mess without rubbing at all.
Now you know how to clean stains properly, let’s see what happens when you do rub. It’s just one stroke, that’s all it takes. In fact, you probably do more than one but one alone will push those bristles against each other in a way that breaks their tips off completely, leaving those stains even more stubbornly rooted than before. So you think there are no more options left now and you’ll be stuck with the stain forever more. When you need Commercial Carpet Cleaners Forest Of Dean, visit a site like https://intocleaning.co.uk/contract-cleaning-services/commercial-carpet-cleaners/forest-of-dean/
Blotting is often confused with rubbing because they both feel satisfyingly active. The answer is, always blot and never rub. You’re still on the ground; you still have your hands on the stain; just press down those carpet strands and yank upwards again to remove that stain. Don’t go sideways or forward and backward.