While water is essential for all types of cleaning, including carpet cleaning, it can also give you cause to have to clean up stains. Whether it is in your home or your office building, water stains can affect all sorts of items such as clothing, office desks, and of course, carpets.

The ways that water can get onto a carpet are almost limitless, with some examples being spillages from drinks tumblers, office employees, puppies urinating, drips from raincoats or umbrellas when you come in from the rain, and more seriously, from flooding.

You might think that it would be impossible for water to stain a carpet given that it is a clear liquid, but it can, albeit indirectly. What happens is that any dirt which is already hiding in the carpet is absorbed by moisture, including water, and this then appears on the surface of the carpets as a stain.

As with any stain, you will obviously want to remove it, but the question is how? Well professional commercial cleaners, Gleam have provided some tips to remove water stains from your carpets.

Make Sure You Have the Correct Cleaning Materials / Solutions

No matter what you are cleaning, and the type of stain you wish to remove, it is imperative that you use the correct cleaning materials or cleaning solutions. Countless items have been ruined or destroyed, including carpets, due to their owners simply not reading the manufacturer’s instructions, and then using something which they shouldn’t have.

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