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The most important thing that you can do in order to keep your house clean and maintain your carpets in good condition is to vacuum them constantly and regularly. How often should you do it? Well, there are basically two options here: if the carpet is in a high traffic area inside your home, you should vacuum it 2 or 3 times a week. If the carpet is not in a high traffic area, once a week should be enough. So this is how you properly vacuum a carpet.

The first thing you need to do is to inspect the area you want to vacuum. This must be done in order to notice if there are any objects that could clog your vacuum cleaner. If there are, you should remove them of course. Also, if you haven’t done this already, you should check your vacuum’s bag in order to see if it needs to be emptied. If you have a bagless vacuum cleaner, this is not the case; still, you should make sure that the filter is clean.

The best way to vacuum is to do it in a forward motion, not backwards. This gives you two important advantages: you will finish faster and you will not strain your cord that much, which basically means that it will not wear out so quickly. Another important thing that you need to bear in mind is that you need to overlap the strokes, in order to make sure that you get everything out of your carpet’s fiber: dirt, pet hair, etc. You should also change the direction in which you are vacuuming occasionally, which reduces matting in your carpet.

On corners, you can always use a damp cloth. The crevice tool which your vacuum cleaner has attached can also be used in this purpose. And now you’re done! The carpet is clean, and you can enjoy a relaxing and clean weekend.