Before vacuum cleaners, beating your rugs was the most popular way to get them clean. You don't see it done much any more, but if you try it you'll be surprised to find out how much dirt your vacuum cleaner leaves behind.
The heavy dirt that settles down at the base of the rug acts like sand paper, wearing away at the fibers in the base of the rug, and possibly the finish on the floor . To lengthen the life of the rug, and get the dirt out of there, you need to beat it. As an added plus, this is an environmentally friendly cleaning method.
If you don't have a heavy duty clothes line in place, rig one up. For a large room sized rug, a standard clothes line probably won't be strong enough. Use heavy rope.
Take your rug out and hang it over the clothes line with the fuzzy side out.
Take your stick and start swinging at the rug. For an ideal swing, you want the entire length of the stick to hit the rug at once. The old fashioned carpet beaters had flat grill work on the end of the stick to increase the surface area coming in contact with the carpet when it hit. What you're doing is moving the rug in the direction the stick is moving so fast that the dirt doesn't have time to move with it. You should start to see dirt fall out of the rug.
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