I was using one of those metal lint brushes on a low pile synthetic rug in my living room, mostly for the lols. I use it on the couch and I thought I’d give it a go.
It horrified me how much dust it kicked up in addition the to fibers it removed. We use a robot vacuum almost daily, and vacuum the rug separately with a “real” vacuum as well. I don’t expect the vacuum to get all the hair that gets tangled I guess, but the dust was just 🤮
Do people still have to take their rugs out and beat them? Haven’t we progressed from that?
I have a small steam cleaner for spot cleaning large fabric things that can’t get washed. Maybe that is something I should be using on the whole rug, on occasion?
I don’t have any carpet flooring in my house because I hate the idea of it being a massive burden to change a fabric floor cover, but I realize I could probably do better on keeping the rugs clean. I don’t think it warrants tossing just because it’s dusty.
Can someone share some wisdom with me? Replies sharing how little cleaning you do are not helpful, but go off I guess. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to not want dust accumulating in my rugs.
Edited to highlight that I am specifically asking about rugs, I don’t have carpets.
We currently only have rugs, but with dogs and toddlers we invested in a fabric cleaner. It’s a little wet vac that sprays water for you you lather up and suck up. It’s used on average once a month to spot clean stuff.
I’ve got an oldskool rack for beating mats in the yard, but I give them a going over with the pressure washer instead of beating them. Twice a year.
We had carpet where we lived when the dogs got potty trained. We hired a professional to do both the carpets and couch after each dog.
Thank you. Is there a proper name for such a rack? I have a clothes drying rack I use indoors for delicates that I don’t want to put on the clothes line but it would crumple under the rug I think.
Hell yeah to the pressure washer! I think I used mine on a woven entry way rug in the past but I’m not sure if I did that or just used a deck brush + soap attachment for the hose.
I’m not sure I want to saturate the pile rugs but I guess I can use the steam cleaner vacuum attachment to suck up the water and let it dry from there.
Seems to be “rug beating rack” or stand in English.
My grandma had one in their apartment complex, and we bought our house from old people who had one cemented in the back yard.