As London’s best carpet cleaning service provider, we understand the importance of looking after your carpets and keeping them clean so they can enjoy a long and healthy lifespan. If you’ve bought a Cormar carpet, we’ll give you all of the advice and tips you need to maintain and clean them.
Why Cormar carpets are so popular
Established in 1956 by Neville Cormack, Cormar carpets is a British, family-owned carpet manufacturer that was the original pioneer of the tufted carpet.
Making and delivering carpets from three sites across the UK, Cormar carpets has gone on to become one of the most sought-after carpet manufacturers in the country, repeatedly earning countless industry awards.
Offering four distinct styles of carpet ranges – easy clean, soft deep pile, wool twist or wool loop – everyone’s tastes are catered for, making Cormar a great choice for all homes.
Maintaining your Cormar carpets
It’s vitally important to look after your Cormar carpets so you can enjoy their aesthetic and practical benefits for many years into the future.
Regular cleaning of your carpets is essential, requiring both maintenance by yourself and professional assistance, for example, from our carpet cleaning North London experts.
Frequent vacuuming
Vacuuming your Cormar carpet at least two or three times each week will help to eliminate the loose dust, hairs, crumbs and other small particles from getting pushed deeper inside the carpet pile.
If this does happen, these particles of dirt can be much more difficult to remove when vacuuming, and could cause abrasive friction against delicate fibres, resulting in wear and tear of the carpet, discoloration and premature aging.
In particular, it’s important to regularly vacuum a new carpet as soon as it has been fitted, especially those carpets made from wool or synthetic fibres.
How you vacuum your Cormar carpet depends on which style of carpet you’ve chosen for your home.
For example, if you’ve got a loop pile carpet, vacuum the carpet using the suction head of a cylinder cleaner. Don’t use beater bars or brushes because these can distort fibres, giving the carpet a felted or bobbled appearance.
A cylinder vacuum cleaner can also be used on a cut pile carpet, but you can also use an upright vacuum cleaner, with a brush and beater bar.
When vacuuming a soft deep pile carpet, London’s best carpet cleaners recommend you use a machine where you can adjust the height, as this creates good airflow over the surface of the carpet.
When vacuuming, move the machine slowly over all areas of the Cormar carpet, working in one direction and then repeating in the opposite direction.
Maintaining your carpets
You can help keep your Cormar carpets cleaner for longer by following a few simple measures, like not wearing your shoes in the house, laying a mat at door entrances and not picking a light-coloured carpet for busy entrances that will receive a lot of foot traffic.
If you want any further advice on maintaining your Cormar carpets, or any other style of carpets for that matter, our knowledgeable carpet cleaning North London professionals will be able to help you.
Eliminating spills and stains
It’s unfortunate when something gets spilled on your Cormar carpet, but these things happen. What’s really important is not to leave the spillage to set into the carpet. As soon as it occurs, take some kitchen paper or a clean, absorbent cloth to blot as much of the excess liquid as possible. If the spillage is from a solid substance, like food, use a blunt knife or spoon to gently scrape it off the carpet.
The worst thing you can do is scrub or rub at the spillage, so always blot it gently, and work from the outside edge inwards, to help prevent spreading the spillage further into the carpet and outwards.
Once as much of the liquid has been absorbed as possible, blot the area again with a clean damp cloth. Avoid using too much water on the carpet, as it could result in discoloration, shrinkage and the growth of mould or mildew in the carpet backing.
Cleaning remedies
If the stain still remains, your next line of attack involves using a cleaning solution. You can buy specialist stain removal products, but make sure the one you choose is suitable for the type of Cormar carpet you own, and its specific materials and construction type.
The most important thing you should do is read the instructions on the cleaning product and carry out a patch test of the product on a hidden area of the carpet before you proceed with removing the stain. This ensures you can remove the stain safely, without damaging the carpet.
If you have a Cormar carpet made from polypropylene, you could also try mixing one part bleach to ten parts water, and gently blotting this on the stain using a clean, white cloth. After the stain has been removed, blot it dry with kitchen paper.
For any Cormar carpets made from wool, always choose a woolsafe stain remover, and follow the manufacturer’s instructions.
You might need to repeat the cleaning process several times for stubborn stains, but if you’re having no joy, or you don’t want to take the risk of making the stain worse than before, London’s best carpet cleaners will be able to provide the professional results you’re looking for.
Professional deep cleaning
Whilst there are lots of things you can do to care for and maintain your Cormar carpets yourself, you’ll still need to seek professional help for the extra deep cleaning your carpets will need.
Deep cleaning removes ingrained dirt from a carpet that a vacuum cleaner can’t reach, and it also gets rid of odours, allergens, pet debris, pests and all other kinds of soiling at a professional level.
It’s the single most important thing you can do to keep your Cormar carpet in a good condition, and if your carpet is new and still covered by a warranty, professional cleaning might be necessary to keep the warranty valid.
When you’re looking for London’s best carpet cleaning service, check to make sure that the company specialises in cleaning Cormar carpets and the particular style of carpets you own.
Here at Carpet Bright UK, we are an award-winning carpet cleaning provider that can take care of all the cleaning needs your Cormar carpets require, so get in touch for all of the details you need.
