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Daily intendance and preventing dents and scratches

Daily care and preventing
    dents and scratches

Chop-chop wipe off spills with a hard squeezed towel.

Caution

If you lot wipe the surface with a wet towel more than than is necessary, you may damage it.

Vacuum along the weaves of the tatami.

It is strongly advised to wipe the entire tatami with a difficult squeezed towel once a month.

When placing heavy or sharp objects, or piece of furniture with casters, remember to lay padding on the tatami.

Do not drag furniture on the tatami.

The tatami may be restored to its original form by steaming light dents with a hot wet towel or a steam iron.

Periodically remove dust in the ridges and the underside in order to maintain the quality of the nonslip material. In addition to that, this volition preclude information technology from bitter the grit and dissentious the floor.

If the front end-side material, similar the edges, starts to fray, use vinyl acetate agglutinative or hotmelt adhesive in order to fix it.
Lightly apply the agglutinative, and gently hold it with release paper.
If yous get the agglutinative glue of the Cut n' Place Tatami on the floor
Wipe the adhesive glue with a dry towel or wipe it off with natural cleaners.

Caution

If your flooring is waxed, be careful not to wipe the waxing off forth with the adhesive glue.

If the nonslip material on the underside begins to pare off, iron that peeling section similar to how yous will iron the wrinkles out of your pants. This will reapply the nonslip cloth onto the tatami.

In cases of stains/dirt (under 2 to 3 minutes later spilling)

In cases of stains/clay (under
    2 to 3 minutes later spilling)

Liquids

Water, tea, milk, coffee, alcohol, beer, whisky, juice, soy sauce, sauces, etc.
Paint thinner, benzene, Mercurochrome, ink, etc.

Wipe it off with a dry towel.

Caution

Gently rub off the stain. If you rub aggressively, the surface may become white. After wiping off the stain, improve airflow of the room and dry the tatami thoroughly.

Urine of babies or pets

Quickly apply powder detergent, babe powder, or flour to soak up the urine.
Next, advisedly vacuum the powder.
Then moisture a towel with lukewarm h2o, squeeze it hard, and then wipe the tatami.
Furthermore, dry the tatami thoroughly with a dryer set to low temperature.
Finally, carefully wipe the tatami with a dry towel as a finishing touch.

Oil stains

Cooking oil, dressing, ketchup, butter, mayonnaise, whip cream, etc.
Milky lotion, cosmetic cream, lipstick, etc.

Apply diluted neutral detergent to a towel and wipe the tatami after squeezing information technology hard.

Caution

Gently rub off the stain. (If there is neutral detergent left on the tatami it will ruin the water-repellant, and so brand certain to thoroughly wipe it off.)
Later wiping off the stain, meliorate airflow of the room and dry the tatami thoroughly.

Kerosene (alkane)

Immediately wipe it off with tissue newspaper.

Markers and crayons

Use a pocket-sized amount of commercial crème cleanser onto a towel and carefully and patiently rub the stain off.
Then wet a towel with lukewarm h2o, clasp information technology hard, so wipe the tatami.
Finally, carefully wipe the tatami with a dry out towel every bit a finishing impact.

Pulverization

Flour, baby powder, powdered medicine, etc.

Vacuum the tatami along its weaves, then wipe it with a hard squeezed towel.

In cases of stains/dirt
(If a lot of time has passed since the accident)

In cases of stains/clay
(If a lot of time has passed
since the accident)

If it is a food spill, dilute commercial chlorine bleach twofold and apply information technology to the stain with a cotton wool swab; the stain will gradually disappear.

Caution

If you apply chlorine bleach to igusa or the edges, the tatami may change colour or emit chlorine gas; only utilise information technology to washi tatami.
Ventilate the room well when working.

If you get chewing gum on the tatami
Put ice into a plastic handbag and place the bag on the gum to freeze it hard. Then with a wooden or plastic spatula, scrape the gum off while being careful not to damage the tatami.
Patiently repeat this multiple times until you get all the mucilage off, even the bits buried into the weaves of the igusa.
Finally, advisedly wipe the tatami with a dry towel as a finishing affect.

If you lot become chewing gum on the tatami
Put water ice into a plastic handbag and place the bag on the gum to freeze it hard. Then with a wooden or plastic spatula, scrape the glue off while beingness conscientious not to damage the tatami.
Patiently repeat this multiple times until you lot get all the glue off, even the $.25 buried into the weaves of the igusa.
Finally, carefully wipe the tatami with a dry out towel equally a.

Dents and scratches

Placing a steam atomic number 26 or a hot steaming towel may ameliorate the dents or scratches, simply it is essentially hard to fix these damages so exist careful not to dent or scratch the tatami.

Caution

If you steam iron the tatami for also long it may alter the colour of the tatami, thus be very careful.

Cigarette burns

For small burns, apply sandpaper to rub off the burnt section, and so use a pocket-sized corporeality of commercial water-based acrylic coating of similar color to make it less noticeable.

If the tatami grows mold

Carefully wipe off the mold with diluted chlorine-free bleach or booze.

Caution

Do not use insecticides with nozzles, since information technology may melt the polystyrene foam under the tatami.