To Blot or Scrub Carpet Stains?

Carpet stains can be a little bit hard to treat and remove them completely if you are not careful to employ the right cleaning methods. You might be better of call a professional. If you do not, and attempt DIY carpet cleaning, it’s important to understand the different tactics that you can choose when removing stains.

You’ve probably heard about scrubbing and blotting. Do you know what each of these methods does to your carpet? Besides that, are they effective? Here, we dive deep into each of them then advise you whether you should scrub or blot. 

BLOTTING

Blotting simply involves pressing the stained part of the carpet with a dry towel or any other material that can absorb the stain. You just need to do it repeatedly until all the stain is completely absorbed.

However, for larger spills, you might have to find an alternative way to extract the spills before blotting. You can use a wet-dry vacuum first then you can blot finally to make sure that everything is removed completely and the affected spot is cleaned nicely, so it looks great as it were before the spills.

SCRUBBING

This involves getting a scrubbing material and rubbing it on the part that is stained. If for instance, you spill drinks on your carpet, you simply get a dry and clean rug then start rubbing at the spills to remove them. How long you do it depends on how much spills are on the floor.

However, you just need to do it until you feel that the stains are completely removed and are invisible anymore on the carpet. You need to be careful with this method since if you overdo it, you may end up damaging your carpet. In fact, scrubbing weakens carpet fibers, and it will be easy for scrubbed parts to get damaged.

BLOT OR SCRUB

Having known what each of these stain removal methods involves, you can already tell which method is safe for your carpet. While they all help in cleaning stained parts of your carpet, you need to give importance to safety and care not to damage your carpet.

Blotting is thus the best way to remove stains from your carpet. As already said, it simply involves pressing a dry towel or rug on the stained spot.

Scrubbing is a bit tricky, and you might end up damaging your carpet if you employ it to remove large spills/stains. Therefore, avoid applying it unless you have other special reason to do it.

Stain removal isn’t always easy, and when the liquid spills on the carpet, we are always quick to get anything around and start rubbing it on the stained part. Please don’t do it again because you are unknowingly damaging it. Instead, blot it, and you’ll get rid of the spills/stains while keeping your carpet intact. You, of course, do not want to cause more problems instead of solving the stain issue. Cleaning needs care and knowledge of how to do it nicely. Always blot instead of scrubbing.