What can you do to help your springtime allergies?

This has been a very brutal spring for oak pollen. You could see it settling like a fine mist at times. When there is that much pollen in the air it will invade the home even if you don't open your windows. It comes in with every opening of the door and step of your foot.

If you have hard floors and no rugs it will be more difficult to capture and remove the pollen. Carpet and rugs capture the particle that fall on them and hold them until your trusty vacuum comes to take them away. Dry vacuuming with a new bag and clean heppa filter is your best way to clean pollen from carpets and furniture.

If you are sensitive to pollen or suffer from frequent allergies you should vacuum daily and have your carpets cleaned every 3-6 months. Carpet, rugs, draperies, and cloth furniture act as filters. When dust and pollen fall on the fabric they stick to the fabric instead of getting redistributed in the air with every passing breeze. But these filters need to be cleaned.

A thorough truck mounted hot water extraction cleaning of your carpets and a thorough cleaning of your furniture every 3-6 months will keep allergens under control.

Applying a flourochemical treatment like Scotch Guard or Dupont Teflon will help make vacuuming much more effective and should be applied once per year. This keeps the very small pollen particles from sticking to the carpet like static cling. So the Scotch guard changes static cling to static push which makes vacuuming much more effective.

Properly maintained carpets and rug can help you moderate your allergies and provide you at least one safe haven when the pollen falls like snow.

Again, the most important thing you can do to help your allergies now is to take your vacuum outside and clean it and replace the bag with a new one. Then vacuum every piece of fabric and all rugs and air vents. Then replace your AC filters.

If your allergies knock you low the Floor Cleaning Experts provide a very thorough vacuuming, carpet cleaning, and upholstery cleaning that will leave you breathing deeply again.