{"id":3403,"date":"2015-11-20T11:59:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T16:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uht.ebb.myftpupload.com\/?p=3403"},"modified":"2018-05-16T09:27:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T14:27:29","slug":"6-ways-to-keep-your-floors-clean-in-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/6-ways-to-keep-your-floors-clean-in-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Ways to Keep Your Floors Clean in Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?--><p>Winter is a beautiful time of the year but it is also a very snowy, muddy, and rainy time of the year. Also, there are many family gatherings for the holidays and unfortunately there may be some spills and muddy foot prints. Here are some great tips to help you keep the floors in your home clean this winter:<\/p><p>Place mats at every entrance of the house.<\/p><hr><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/38.media.tumblr.com\/8532fff79925c630d5c361560cf8f717\/tumblr_njxejpmnrT1s2yegdo1_r1_400.gif\" alt=\"image 1 for 6 Ways to Keep Your Floors Clean in Winter\" width=\"380\" height=\"365\"><\/p><hr><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Take off muddy\/wet\/snowy shoes and leave them at the entrance to the home or in a mud room. If mud does get on the carpet, then let the mud dry and shatter it, and then vacuum.<\/p><hr><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/xZG8oc9SXfnAQ\/giphy.gif\" alt=\"image 2 for 6 Ways to Keep Your Floors Clean in Winter\" width=\"500\" height=\"225\"><\/p><hr><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Sweep every day!<\/p><hr><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/49.media.tumblr.com\/0492674d7a95e7e5bc20afd79f8bb98b\/tumblr_nttzi5m8LS1s02vreo2_400.gif\" alt=\"image 3 for 6 Ways to Keep Your Floors Clean in Winter\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><\/p><hr><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Vacuum every few days. When vacuuming vinyl, do not use a \u201cbeater bar\u201d attachment; this can damage the flooring surface.<\/p><hr><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/rateeveryanimal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/cat-on-roomba.gif\" alt=\"image 4 for 6 Ways to Keep Your Floors Clean in Winter\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\"><\/p><hr><p>Clean up spills immediately!<\/p><hr><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/static0.therichestimages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/spill-anim.gif\" alt=\"image 5 for 6 Ways to Keep Your Floors Clean in Winter\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\"><\/p><hr><p>Mop your floors every few days to clean up any dirt that the vacuum did not get.<\/p><hr><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ifcdn.com\/images\/97e1ad372222382b84c9481344da76e0c40a9126605fab49de98fb5ba55ca054_1.gif\" alt=\"image 6 for 6 Ways to Keep Your Floors Clean in Winter\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\"><\/p><hr><p>\u00a0<\/p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winter is a beautiful time of the year but it is also a very snowy, muddy, and rainy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1925,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,42,30,9,1100,24],"tags":[202,55,104,196,1243,490,1346],"class_list":["post-3403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-carpet","category-do-it-yourself","category-hardwood-flooring","category-laminate-flooring","category-luxury-vinyl","category-vinyl-flooring","tag-cheap-hardwood","tag-cleaning","tag-discount-carpet","tag-discount-vinyl-flooring","tag-floor-maintenance","tag-sheet-vinyl-flooring","tag-winter-cleaning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1925"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3403"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3409,"href":"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403\/revisions\/3409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carpetexpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}