Preserving Your Balouch Rug – Cleaning and Maintenance Tips

When was the last time you cleaned any part of your home? You may have wiped down the countertops in your kitchen or vacuumed the floors in your kids’ bedrooms. These daily or weekly tasks are easy to do, but when it comes to cleaning and maintenance tips for your Balouch rug, many homeowners could use a hand! That’s why in today’s blog, we’ll focus on easy ways to preserve your Balouch rug.

Here are our top cleaning and maintenance tips to help extend the life of yours!

Regularly rotate your Balouch rug.

This tip is essential, especially in high-traffic areas of your home. Balouch rugs are often old enough to qualify as either vintage or antique. If you place one in your living room, it is obviously going to work great as a decorative element. Balouch rugs also provide comfort to those walking in and around your furniture.

However, to preserve your Balouch rug, it is always a good idea to rotate it. This will minimize the impact of daily wear and tear on any one area of your rug, which keeps the fibers from getting too faded in one spot.

Be careful when spot-cleaning.

These next two tips for preserving your Balouch rug go hand in hand. First, if you need to clean it, only do so via spot-cleaning. Never soak your rug from end to end. Instead, carefully clean the stain itself.

Only use mild, heavily diluted soap.

When cleaning, don’t use straight soap; instead, put a few drops of soap in a bucket of warm water. Additionally, always blot at stains rather than scrub them and use a second bucket of clean water to soak up the suds. 

Beat the rug instead of regular vacuuming.

Finally, the older your rug the less you will want to vacuum it. Modern sweepers are high-powered and can damage the fibers of antique rugs. Balouch rugs are no exception here. Instead, hang it over a clothesline or railing of your deck. Gently beat the underside of your Balouch rug using a broom or rug beater. This will knock loose dust and dirt, helping to preserve the life of your investment.

Use a rug pad.

A rug pad does more than protect your flooring. It also helps to protect the rug itself. This tip is especially important if you plan to place the rug over a damaged piece of flooring. With a rug pad in place, a crack in the hardwood or the protruding corner of a tile will hit the rug pad instead of your Balouch rug.

As a bonus, a rug pad also keeps your rug from sliding around when you step on it. This means that on tile or hardwood flooring, you don’t have to worry about slips or falls that can hurt both you and the rug.

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Cleaning and maintaining your rug, whether it’s Oushak, Balouch, or another style is incredibly important. These simple tips should help you preserve and extend the life of your rug no matter where you put it in your home.

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