Carpets: Carpets require regular maintenance to stay healthy and looking clean. Carpets are big filters and filter out the dust, pollen, and other airborne contaminants we don’t want to breathe. This keeps them from being redistributed into the air supply and keeps them out of our lungs and sinuses. But the carpets need to be kept clean for this to work. Once they get overloaded with soil they stop working. Billions of dollars have been spent to engineer carpet so it doesn’t look dirty. When your carpets look dirty it means they are REALLY dirty.
Vacuuming is the most important part of maintaining your carpets and keeping that clean healthy carpet lasting a long time. Change your vacuum bag when it gets 1/3 full and keep the belts and beater bar clean. Heavy traffic areas should be vacuumed daily with light traffic areas being vacuumed once or twice a week.
Vacuuming will remove 87% of the soils that build up in your carpets. To remove the rest you will need carpet cleaning. This can either be a dry foam maintenance cleaning or a truck mounted hot water extraction restoration cleaning.
Truck mounted hot water extraction is a restorative cleaning process that uses a 12 step thorough cleaning process to get the carpets restored back to as close to brand new condition as possible. Treating the carpets with a DuPont Stainmaster Teflon or 3m Scotch Guard treatment will restore the carpet's stain resistance and will make vacuuming more effective by making it harder for dust to stick to the carpet.
Encapsulating dry foam cleaning is a great way to keep carpets cleans. Encapsulating dry foam cleaning is a maintenance cleaning process that works with your regular vacuuming to keep your carpets clean between truck mounted hot water extraction cleanings. Encapsulating cleaners envelope the soils in the carpet and then dry to a hard brittle crystal that shatters and vacuums up out of your carpets.
How often you clean your carpet is going to vary based on usage. A family of 5 with a dog and 6 neighbor kids will need more frequent service then a retired family of 2.
Carpets need to be cleaned every year no matter how little traffic they have gotten or if they look dirty or not. Your annual carpet cleaning is like the oil change for your car. It will keep your investment looking good, smelling fresh, and a healthy filer for your indoor environment. Families with children or pets should have their carpets cleaned 2-4 times per year.
Never ever have dirty carpets again!! How? Maintenance! Hot water extraction cleaning is much more labor intensive then encapsulating dry foam cleaning and therefore more expensive. The best and most affordable way to keep your carpets clean is to get it clean with a 12 step thorough hot water extraction carpet cleaning and then keep it clean with encapsulating dry foam cleanings. With the Floor Cleaning Experts Never Have Dirty Carpets Again program you get four cleanings for the price of two hot water extraction cleanings. Plus you get a free emergency spot visit per year.
The Floor Cleaning Experts is an IICRC Certified Firm and has two IICRC Certified Master Textile Cleaners on staff to answer any questions you may have about your carpets care and maintenance.
Contact us at 727-399-8803.
Saturday, June 6, 2009
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