Professional carpet cleaning services and products can be expensive but you can make your own cleaning solutions at home that you can use in a shampooing machine or apply with regular household cleaning tools.
Can you throw a carpet in a laundry machine.
Not only can crumbled rug backing come off in the laundry and damage your washing machine a rug with no backing will slip and slide.
While most of us use our washing machine for dirty clothes you d be surprised to learn there s a long laundry list of items pun intended that are machine washable too.
I once put a air filter housing into a dish washer and yes it did clean it up but it took about 6 washes to get the grease oil residue out o.
In that case you can likely head to your local laundromat or even just take it to get dry cleaned.
Homemade carpet cleaners are great for stains spot removal to treat high traffic areas and for general cleaning purposes.
If you re dealing with a larger area rug that definitely can t fit into your washer at home you ll need an industrial sized washing machine according to crate and barrel.
Area rugs can really pull a room together but cleaning them can sometimes be a challenge especially if you don t own a carpet cleaner.
No i wouldn t do that.
Sure you can hire a professional or rent a machine to do.