Everyone requires coffee or tea to get through a busy office day. It’s an office essential that cannot be denied to any worker. However, it tends to see many accidental spills that can leave a lasting stain on your office carpet that a regular clean or scrub cannot shift correctly. Instead of replacing your carpet or placing something over the offending spot, you should figure out what can be done with a commercial cleaning Stockport company within a cleaning contract that can deep clean the problem.
Even if that stain has been occupying your carpet for a prolonged period, there is always something that can be done.
Steps That You Can Take
If you were wanting to take care of the problem yourself, there are things you can do that take a little effort on your part. The first thing we would say would be NOT to scrub the stain.
Scrubbing only works that coffee deeper into the carpet and makes it even harder to remove. The first step is to blot up as much surface liquid as possible as quickly as you can. Kitchen towels are great for this, or a clean tea towel if you have one. This lifts the liquid away rather than letting it permeate deeper into the carpet. It is important to soak instead of scrubbing this surface liquid out.
Blot and Treat
After getting as much surface liquid shifted as possible, it is time to treat the stain. If you have a carpet stain remover in the office cupboard, this should do the trick by following the instructions on the bottle. In most cases, your office will not have a proper carpet stain-removing agent to hand – but that doesn’t mean you cannot use other items for a DIY carpet cleaning agent.
Mixing a tablespoon of washing-up liquid with a tablespoon of white vinegar and 500ml of water into a jug or washing-up basin can create a decent enough mixture to get the job done.
Apply this to a clean cloth and dab the stain a little at a time. Blotting this with a clean, dry towel whilst doing so will start to visibly reduce the stain in most cases. White vinegar is the magic ingredient that is a mild, natural acid that starts breaking down and dissolving staining compounds in coffee. When combined with the washing-up liquid, it cuts through the oils present within coffee and acts as a fully effective yet mild coffee stain remover.
Once the last of the cleaning liquid is blotted away, there may be visible stains left over. If that is the case, you will need a dry clean.
Baking Soda
When the area is dry as can be from blotting, you can dust it with baking soda. This is another ingredient that can act against coffee stains to great effect because it is highly absorbent at soaking up oils and reacting with vinegar.
This can be either left on the surface or lightly worked into the fibres with a clean cloth.
If you have more persistent stains, it is time to trust an expert in office cleaning Manchester to perform a very deep clean on your office carpet.
Contact the team at Absolutely Gleaming Services today for more information on removing your carpet stains.