Carpets with natural fibres such as Seagrass, Jute, Coir and Sisal can only be dry cleaned in order to avoid damaging the fibre construction. What is specific about natural fibre carpets is that n most cases their flooring is made from read, which is paper. That is why, natural fibre flooring cannot be cleaned with the conventional hot water extraction method as this would cause shrinkage, water marks and pile damage.

There are several aspects that make natural fibre carpets more difficult to maintain compared to other types of carpets.
To begin with, natural fibre carpets are much less stain resistant and once you spill some liquid on them, stains appear very easily. The problem is that it is very difficult to remove liquid stains from these carpets. Using dry cleaning methods it is often possible for professional carpet cleaners to remove stains-from footwear, food and general grime embedded into the flooring, but this is not very efficient when it comes to liquid stains.

The advantage of the dry cleaning method which is applied for natural fibre carpets are that the carpets are completely dry and ready to use immediately after completion of the carpet cleaning service.

Dry cleaning is dome with the use of carpet cleaning compounds. Some of them are powders, others are granules, but they all function in a similar way. Once the compound is spread over your carpet, the chemical makes its way down to the base of the carpet fibers and dissolves any soil and dirt that is present. The soil dissolves and gets absorbed by the cleaning agent. The cleaning compound and the dissolved soil is then sucked up by a vacuum.

The dry cleaning method for natural fibre carpets sounds easy enough for you to do yourself. However, it is recommended that you check with a professional carpet cleaning company before you commerce any carpet cleaning and stain removal process.

It is also important to check which type of cleaning compound would best suit your specific carpet. Some powder types which are extremely fine might reduce indoor air quality. If more than the needed amount of the powder has been used or if it has not been properly vacuumed, white powder might appear on cuffs of pants or other fine areas.