Why You Should Clean Your Carpets After the Holidays

The holidays are fun with parties, family time, and celebrations. But all those festivities can be unkind to your home's carpets. When the festivities are over, cleaning your carpets to remove the sticky stains and other dirt they might have attracted during the holidays is advisable. Below are some excellent reasons why a homeowner should clean the carpets after the holiday season is over.

Increased Traffic and Soil

Whenever it is the holidays, you may find that you are coming and going to your home more often than usual. Such traffic means more dirt and dust coming into the building by the feet of people, hence causing the floor to get dirty. From spills to foot traffic to wet floors, it seems like your carpets pick up a lot more quickly during the holidays. Suppose all that extra dirt and grime is not removed. In that case, it is ground further and further into the carpet fibers, making it a little more challenging to make a later removal. 

Spills and Stains

Sometimes, you may realize that you have more food spills, drinks, or even parties during the festive season, and you see more stains on your carpet. If you fail to clean and treat those spills and stains as soon as they occur, they will likely stick and become very hard to wash out. The longer you wait, the longer they take to come off. Clean up your furniture as soon as the holidays are over.

Odors and Allergens

In addition to that, we all know that with holidays, houseguests, and late-night parties, somehow, your carpet gets quite a buildup of smells and dust mites. These are easy for your carpets to pick up – be it from cooking fragrances to smells from pet fur to scents from perfumes and other scented products commonly used around the holiday season. Further, there are always many people who drag in more dust from outside by their shoes, and your carpets contain a lot of dust mite, pollen, and everything in between. This is important because cleaning immediately after the holidays ensures that foul odors do not accumulate in your carpets permanently.

Prevent Wear and Damage

It's worthwhile to let some dirt, debris, stains and spills on the carpets for a period, but if they linger for too long, they could start to damage the rug, primarily affecting the fibers and backing, and hence reduce its lifespan. All that holiday soil dancing on the carpets can result in crushing, matting, and abrasion that gives your carpets a dull, worn-out, and high-traffic appearance, even if it is not that old. Maintain their durability and quality and stop them from being worn out early by cleaning them up after the holiday.

Maintain Appearance

Whether or not there are any significant holiday-related stains or set-in sticky messes, carpets that were once light in color may well look dull and considerably darker in heavily used sections by New Year's Day. If the noise and crowds of the holidays have taken their toll on your carpets, the best way to make them look like new again would be to get them cleaned professionally. Depending on the usage, post-holiday cleaning from a professional can bring some life back to the dingy looking carpets and make them look like the new again.

Improve Air Quality

Carpets attract all types of dirt, dust, pollen, mould, mildew and microbes trampled into a house through shoes—more so during the holidays. These pollutants are sucked back into the air you breathe every time someone goes over the carpets, over the carpet. This can further exacerbate allergy and asthma in a home. There is nothing like completely clearing all those holiday residues off your floors; hence, say after New Year's or Christmas and so on, good air quality inside makes such a big difference.

Address Pet Accidents

House guests and the celebration of holidays can be very stressful for pets. Loose wires and cables and additional people can upset dogs and cats causing slips and falls within homes. Some of the main problems associated with pet urine, feces, or vomit include the emergence of ugly stains and the production of obnoxious smells for which you would require special washing to get rid of. Make sure that you address and wash any pet stains as soon as you notice them. Because the longer a stain stays, the harder it will be to get out completely.

Conclusion

As you can imagine, the holiday season can really take a toll on your carpets at home. Besides, over the holidays, they're exposed to additional dirt and grime, as well as a higher frequency of spills, stains, smells, and pet damage. Make sure your carpet looks new again after the holidays by booking a professional cleaning service immediately after the holidays. Not only will a post-holiday carpet cleaning session identify and remove deep set grime, ensuring the carpets look and smell fresh again, but it will also ensure that permanent marks are avoided, deep wear is lessened, and the carpets are as good as new all year round.