Protect Your Rug from Stains
Our homes, designed to fit our lifestyles and personal tastes, are our sanctuaries. Considering the substantial amount of time and money that goes toward home decor, it’s necessary to protect out assets, such as valuable area rugs. Because let’s face it, spills and stains happen for many reasons: children playing, family gatherings, entertaining, and training pets.
If you’ve got an oriental rug you care enough about to be reading this right now, applying a stain protector to it after you’ve had it cleaned is pretty much a no-brainer.
There are a few important things to know about the benefits of having an Oriental rug stain protector applied:
Just as red wine, soft drinks, and condiments have their own unique flavors, they also have unique chemical makeups that cause permanent stains. In fact, almost anything we consume has a chemistry that is either acidic or contains food coloring. Even natural additives can have permanent dyes.
How To Protect Your Rugs Against Spills And Stains?
Having a rug protector to your rug can extend the life of it and help prevent unsightly stains.
The rug protector is applied to your rug, it forms a protective barrier around the fibers of it. This barrier helps keep dirt and staining elements from getting absorbed into the rug fibers. The protector used in our shop is specifically made for use on wool rugs. If you have protector and you have a pet accident,you have a better chance of stain removal,if treated immediately.
In the case of a liquid spill, you can easily soak up the excess with paper toweling, and you are done. Wool carpet stain protection will prevent permanent damage to your rug fibers and will last for at least two years.
The most effective thing to do to keep your area rugs stain free is to apply a layer of protectant. This material bonds well with the fibers and acts as a seal, making the surface resistant to all types of stains. Protectants are available in sprays; you can apply them yourself but you might have to face issues. They are available in many types in the market, and you may not choose a suitable one. Instead, ask a professional cleaning service to apply the protectant for you if you want more noticeable results.
The rug protectors usually contains a fluorochemical that protects your valuable area rug from both spills and dirt. Just like a coat of wax on your car it provides a protective coating on your area rug that you cannot feel but can see in the event of a spill.
Most people do not realize the benefits of protector in the case of drink spills. When applied correctly it will prevent liquids from penetrating the fibers. If you spill coffee, juice, soda, wine, etc. on your wool or silk area rug the spill will bread up on the surfave instead of permanetly affecting your rugs natural fibers. Many times you can take a paper towel and soak up the spill.
Another important and often less advertised benefit of carpet protector is in the protection from household dirt and sand. Dirt and sand is abrasive and can actually scratch the surface of your rugs fibers leaving a dingy or faded appearance. Oftentimes wool and silk area rugs that do not have their fibers protected will develop ”traffic lanes” and signs of permanent staining that cannot be reversed. Rug protector helps prevent dirt particles from doing any long – term damage.
Stain Protector Makes Your Rugs Easier To Clean
Once your rug fibers have been coated with protector, vacuuming is much more effective because soils are resting on the protector and can’t attach themselves to the rug fibers as easily. Stain proofing carpet also makes spot removal easier as well, since protector makes the fibers less absorbent and gives you more time to clean up a spill before the unwanted substance absorbs into the fibers themselves.
Stain Protector Makes Your Rug Stain Resistant
Believe it or not, each fiber in your rug has a gazillion dye sites on it (not really, but you get the picture). Even though the color in your rug may look quite uniform, in fact the dye that makes up these colors has only filled in a small portion of those dye sites, leaving many of them empty. And although your rug may look like it has uniform colors throughout, if you were to examine it microscopically, some of the dye sites have the desired color in them, some dye sites have no color in them (blank), and some dye sites have unwanted color in them (stains).