Clean carpet is one of the biggest concerns to homeowners. Dust and oil contribute to dirty traffic lanes.. Even if you take off your shoes and walk on the carpet, still your body oil recreating from your foot leaves a stain on the carpet. Even pets in the house leave oil from their feet on the carpet. Your carpet will become dirtier over time because oils attract more dirt.

For maximum soil removal, hot water extraction is the best method to use. Before rinsing, make sure you let the traffic lane cleaner dwell for fifteen minutes. If you rent a machine or use a do it yourself machine, make sure you clean with very warm or hot water.

The machine you clean with should enough vacuum suction to pull out water and dirt from the carpet. In order to leave your carpet in a PH balanced state, a mild acid rinse is sometimes necessary if your traffic lane cleaner has high alkalinity. After the cleaning, apply fabric protector and place fans on the carpet to aide in drying.. Cold air is best, so set your air conditioner to 70 degrees. And if you feel that the humidity is rising in the room you can open a door or a window for the air to flow out of the room.

For best carpet apperance, make sure you have your carpets cleaned every year. Traffic lanes hide dirt well, so it’s important to have them cleaned even if they don’t appear dirty. If you wait, you may already have lots of damage done..

At bare minimum, reapply fabric protector in your high traffic lanes every other year. After buying new carpet, it normally comes with fabric protection similar to 3M Scotchgard. As the years go by, your Scotchgard Protector wears out in the high traveled areas.

For more beautiful traffic lanes, follow these tips.