Dave Solberg

RV Flooring Maintenance: Keeping Carpet Clean

Dave Solberg
Duration:   2  mins

Description

In this free video lesson RV repair expert Dave Solberg teaches you some RV flooring maintenance tips to extend the lifespan of your vehicle’s carpet. Although carpet is nice to have and can make your RV feel more homey, it can also be difficult to keep clean. If you don’t want to have to deal with routine upkeep, you could replace your carpeting with vinyl. But if you prefer the carpet, Dave has some simple recommendations to make your carpet last longer and look nicer. Consider using some of these techniques, and you can count on your carpet to better withstand the test of time and the elements!

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  1. Dale Pruitt

    Where can I find Nature's Pride carpet cleaner?

One of the largest challenges, you're gonna have, in your RV is keeping the floor clean. I think it's ironic, RV manufacturers put carpet in. And that's the hardest component to keep cleaning in RV. I suppose they do it because, it gives it the homey feeling, it's soft when you walk through, acoustics, whatever. But it is a challenge now.

In this RV here, this is a 2002, Winnebago Brave and we had the original carpet in here and they actually use a very high pile carpet. This is gonna be running about, 30 fiber ounces per yard, an action back on the backside. So this is a little easier to clean. However, it was getting, pretty worn out. So we ended up putting a luxury woven vinyl.

And now this is gonna be a lot easier to clean. It does have a pad on the backside. But there are a few tips in cleaning carpet, if you're gonna keep that in your RV. The first thing is, as you get in and out of that RV with your shoes, you're gonna be bringing sand, small rocks, all that stuff gets in that fiber and just starts to tear it apart. And that's when it's gonna really start to wear.

The other thing is, if you have pets, pets have an oily skin, mostly dogs and as they lay on this carpet, they're gonna absorb that oil and it's gonna mat down and this stuff's gonna look like it's, 10 years old in about six months. And so, the thing you want to do is, dedicate a place for your pets to sleep, that's away from the carpet, put some kind of a pad or a runner in it. Put a pad on the outside to take your shoes off, so you're not dragging things in and out. There are some aftermarket treatments, that are used in it. Now some of the carpet like, the Shaw that's used in the higher line RVs, actually has a treatment on here.

So those fibers can't get that dirt and sand inside the fibers itself. And that makes it a lot easier to clean. There are some aftermarket things that you can do as well. But one of the best things you can do, is vacuum the carpet. Do it once a week.

If you're coming in and out more often, do a little more than that. There are some great vacuums on the market, that are cordless now like the Dyson, which is a little more on the highline side. Shark, makes a really good one as well. And it makes it so easy, just to clean all this stuff right away. The other thing you want to do is spot clean.

Get some of these areas like this. Nature's Pride, is one of the best. If again, if you have pets, that's a really good one. If you have your urine stains and stuff like that in it. So, the main thing with carpet cleaning, is to stay on top of it.

Don't be bringing as much stuff inside, that's gonna tear this up. Keep the shades down, that's another thing. You see carpets starts to fade pretty fast, if you leave those shades up and the sun hits it. So a little bit of preventative maintenance and your carpet will last a lot longer.

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