Four tips to deep clean your rugs and give them a new lease of life for autumn

CLEANING your rugs will brighten up your floors for autumn – and the difference might surprise you.

A rug can hold up to four times its weight in dirt, dust and dead skin cells.

Give yours a new lease of life with these tips.

PULL THE PLUG: One TikTok trick doing the rounds involves soaking rugs in a bath with detergent or fabric softener.

But this could damage the fibres, change its colour or leave it with a sticky residue...