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How often do you deep clean your rugs/carpets and how do you do it?

I was using one of those metal lint brushes on a low pile synthetic rug in my living room, mostly for the lols. I use it on the couch and I thought I’d give it a go.

It horrified me how much dust it kicked up in addition the to fibers it removed. We use a robot vacuum almost daily, and vacuum the rug separately with a “real” vacuum as well. I don’t expect the vacuum to get all the hair that gets tangled I guess, but the dust was just 🤮

Do people still have to take their rugs out and beat them? Haven’t we progressed from that?

I have a small steam cleaner for spot cleaning large fabric things that can’t get washed. Maybe that is something I should be using on the whole rug, on occasion?

I don’t have any carpet flooring in my house because I hate the idea of it being a massive burden to change a fabric floor cover, but I realize I could probably do better on keeping the rugs clean. I don’t think it warrants tossing just because it’s dusty.

Can someone share some wisdom with me? Replies sharing how little cleaning you do are not helpful, but go off I guess. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to not want dust accumulating in my rugs.

Edited to highlight that I am specifically asking about rugs, I don’t have carpets.

Replying to @⁨Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online⁩

We currently only have rugs, but with dogs and toddlers we invested in a fabric cleaner. It’s a little wet vac that sprays water for you you lather up and suck up. It’s used on average once a month to spot clean stuff.

I’ve got an oldskool rack for beating mats in the yard, but I give them a going over with the pressure washer instead of beating them. Twice a year.

We had carpet where we lived when the dogs got potty trained. We hired a professional to do both the carpets and couch after each dog.

Edited ⁨⁨Sep⁩ ⁨13⁩, ⁨2026⁩, ⁨11:03⁩⁩

Replying to @⁨PetteriPano@lemmy.world⁩

Thank you. Is there a proper name for such a rack? I have a clothes drying rack I use indoors for delicates that I don’t want to put on the clothes line but it would crumple under the rug I think.

Hell yeah to the pressure washer! I think I used mine on a woven entry way rug in the past but I’m not sure if I did that or just used a deck brush + soap attachment for the hose.

I’m not sure I want to saturate the pile rugs but I guess I can use the steam cleaner vacuum attachment to suck up the water and let it dry from there.