Disinfect Your Carpet Start with vinegar. White vinegar is a natural way to disinfect your carpets, and it's a simple and cost-effective process. Simply pour white vinegar into a spray bottle, mist it over the carpet and let it sit overnight.

Steam cleaning is believed to remove over 90% of all of the dirt and bacteria from your flooring.

“For nylon or blended carpets, the best options are steam cleaning or dry cleaning – which requires chemical mixtures to be spread across the carpet or sprayed directly onto stains before being removed. “But for wool carpets, a good carpet shampooer will usually be the most effective.

Cut Pile– Cut pile carpeting is mostly found in residential homes. The fuzzy layer that cut pile provides, leaves a soft layer of cushion around your house that is hard to beat. One of its only downsides is, it can be difficult to clean.