Long Pile Rug Cleaning

Our team set out to find the best vacuum for long pile shag carpets with all the bells and whistles turned on.

Long pile rug cleaning. Long pile carpets also have special cleaning requirements. A rug doctor carpet cleaner uses our innovative vibrating cleaning brushes. Wet cleaning long pile rugs a more thorough method of cleaning if the item can be wet cleaned is to actually wash it in a large commercial washing unit. The oscillating motion ensures your rug doctor machine does not become entangled when cleaning longer shag pile carpets.

Sprinkle the rug with absorbent carpet shampoo granules for an occasional freshening. Take the rug outside and shake it. Vacuum the granules out thoroughly. This tends to yield a brighter cleaner result.

If the item may be prone to shrinkage wet cleaning should be avoided so go to a company with lots of experience in rug cleaning and care. To begin with when the carpet is first laid vacuum it lightly every day for the first week. And if you have a true shag rug the best way is to not use the vacuum at all but rather clean it the old fashioned way. The constant motion of rug doctor machines will treat your carpets with the utmost care without a tangle in sight.

Those necessities can vary from one kind of shag to the next and you may find that your current vacuum is not practical or even ineffective. Essentially you want to suck the dirt out of the rug but you should not use your vacuum s power brush head on a shag rug or even a medium high pile.