Carpet Cleaning Tips

Basic stain removal solution

If you don't have a fancy carpet shampoo specific to your carpet pile than my baking soda mix will get you through the first stage of your emergency stain removal .

Here's what you need to do: 

Step 1: 

Vacuum your Carpet to remove all the lose debris and dirt. You don't have to get this 100% perfect, you really just need to make sure superficial dirt is gone so it doesn't interfere with your treatment. 

Step 2:

 Throw (ok, sprinkle) on a decent amount of baking soda. You can to completely cover the stained area and the baking soda should be on thick enough that you can only just see the carpet under it.  Ideally you either use a sift so that no clumps of baking soda are on the stain or you whisk it quickly before sprinkling it on the stain.

Step 3:

 Walk away.... walk away for at least 12-24 hours and try not to interfere with the baking sods gods as they work your magic on your carpet. 

Step 4:

Vacuum up the baking soda to reveal your (hopefully? probably?) clean carpet. 

Step 5, if required:

 If stains remain then I'd be jumping online and grabbing some carpet shampoo that is specific to your carpet type.