Rugs have a way of warming up a room, while adding a touch of color and personality. As well as decorating your home, rugs deal with a lot of traffic day to day, leading to an accumulation of dust and dirt. To maintain your rugs appearance and longevity, you'll need to know how to clean it correctly, but oftentimes, we may make a few mistakes along the way, causing damage to our rugs instead. So, how do you avoid this from happening? Well, the simple answer would be to clean it — correctly.
When learning how to clean a rug, there are certain rug mistakes you'll want to avoid making. "If you clean your rugs regularly and the correct way, then they will last you a long time," says cleaning expert Chris Willatt and owner of Alpine Maids. "Not using chemicals designed for regular household use, not cleaning spills right away and correctly can easily damage your rug and most rugs are not cheap these days. So, keeping them clean correctly is important."
