Snow-clean your rugs. 6 easy steps—here’s how!

 

How to snow-clean your rugs!

 

Cleaning rugs doesn’t have to involve chemicals or expensive professional cleaning. During winter, you can instead use a clever and eco-friendly method: snow-cleaning your rugs. Snow acts as a natural cleaning agent that lifts dirt, dust, and odors from the rug’s fibers. By laying the rug out in cold, dry snow, trampling the snow into it, brushing, and beating out the dirt, you can make your rugs fresh and clean. In this blog post, we’ll show you exactly how to snow-clean rugs—perfect after the holiday festivities!

 

 

 

 

In any case, we have more than enough snow for all the rugs you could possibly have.

 

This should be done when the snow is fairly cold—preferably not wet and slushy. It is also essential that the ground underneath is frozen, so you don’t get dirt from the ground into the rug. If you don’t have much snow, you can lay the rug on a patio floor and shovel snow over it. We took our rugs and went out onto the lake. The ice is naturally clean and smooth, and you have as much space as you could possibly need.

 

 

 

Here’s how:

 

1. 1. Roll up your rugs and take them to a suitable location. Bring a broom.

 

1. 2. Shake the rugs out thoroughly, then lay them in the snow. If the rug has a top and a bottom, the top—the side you walk on—should face down toward the snow. Rag rugs can be “done on both sides.”

 

1. 3. Walk across the rug so that you press snow into it, but make sure there is nothing sharp or dirty underneath.

 

1. 4. Turn the rug over and repeat if it is a rag rug.

 

1. 5. Brush off the snow with a broom. Work the broom a little so that it pulls out both the snow AND the dirt. Turn the rug over and repeat until you are satisfied.

 

1. 6. Shake out the rug and beat it a few times with the broom.

 

Since most of the snow falls out of the rug when you beat and shake it, it won’t be particularly wet when you bring it inside. If you have a beautiful parquet floor, you should still hang it up to dry for a while before putting it back. You’ll notice that the snow you beat or brush out of the rug is discolored, which is a good indication that the method works.

 

Unless something unexpected happens, this cleaning will last all the way until spring, when it’s time to clean rugs on the dock again. Bringing a box of clean, beautiful rugs back inside feels good.

 

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