What Are the Most Important Steps in

 Cleaning Your Carpets and Floors

Most cleaners skip these important steps. Make sure your carpet is cleaned properly.

Step 1: Pre-Inspection
We walk through the job with you and inspect your carpet. We also give tips on how you can help your carpet last longer.

Step 2: Dry-Soil Removal
Up to 85% of soil in a textile is dry particulate soil that has bonded to the surface of the fabric. Household vacuum cleaners don’t always remove all of the dry soil. If not completely removed, it may wick back upon drying. So vacuum regularly and right before the cleaners come, or ask them to do it.(fee may apply)

Step3: Furniture Moving
Find out what furniture is recommended to be moved and what is included under the regular pricing structure and what stays in place.

Step 4: Pre-Conditioning Traffic Areas
In this step, a solution is applied that loosens the soil and spots for more effective removal. (We scrub your carpet, to see our unique system give us a call)

Step 5: Pre-Treat Spots
Some spots require special solutions and special care for complete removal and to avoid setting the stain.

Step 6: Pre-Grooming
The carpet or upholstery pile is now gently massaged to further loosen the soils so that aggressive, harmful cleaning is not needed.

Step 7: Extraction
Now that the soil has been properly suspended, it can be extracted without over-wetting or leaving a sticky residue behind.

Step 8: Neutralizing
Another common problem is that some carpet cleaners don’t neutralize the carpet. Not balancing the pH can cause the carpet to be stiff and attract dirt like a magnet.

Step 9: Specialty Spotting
Stubborn stains sometimes require specialty stain removal processes. Because many cleaners do not train themselves, they do not know about these processes. Those who do sometimes gouge customers to use these processes because they offer a low price they intend not to keep.

Step 10: Post Grooming
The pile of the carpet or upholstery should then be finished so that it dries and cures in the proper direction.

Step 11: Speed Dry
Proper drying should be insured with high velocity air movers. (As needed)

Step 12: Post Inspection
A thorough walk through should be done to insure that you are completely satisfied with your cleaning job.

WARNING: Untrained Carpet Cleaners Use 1 to 3 of These Important Steps, Over-Wet Your Carpet and Upholstery and Leaving a Sticky Residue Behind.

Call for more info on our cleaning systems or visit www.carpetcleaningjeffersoncitymo.com

Aaron Sabartinelli IICRC Certified Carpet Technician

573-636-3111

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How Often Should I Clean My Carpets,

Rugs and Floors?

(Without over-wetting or leaving a sticky residue behind)

Have you ever wondered if you are cleaning your floors and fabrics enough? Or too much? Are there frequency guidelines for professional cleaning? If so, where do you find them? Surely you have heard Wait as long as you can before you clean your carpet…. or Once you’ve cleaned your carpet, it’s never the same….

These widely used comments have stemmed from unfortunate encounters with uninformed cleaners that have left the carpet with an overload of detergent residue. The consumer has assumed that this is the case with all carpet cleaning and resolved to wait until the carpet is in dire straights to clean it.

The good news is that a properly cleaned carpet will not re-soil as quickly and will actually last longer. Why? Because damaging soils are removed with effective cleaning. Soil that is not removed by vacuuming, even though it can rarely be seen by the naked eye, cuts and slices on the carpet fibers as the carpet is being walked on breaking down the carpet yarns in the traffic areas. The result is that even with restorative cleaning at that point, it will not correct the damage that has been done to the fiber.

Fiber producers and carpet manufacturers recommend that a residential carpet should be professionally cleaned at least 18 to 24 months for best performance, more often in heavily trafficked and heavy soiling situations.

A Clean Carpet is a Healthy Carpet

Not to mention that a carpet that is not cleaned on a regular basis is an unhealthy carpet. Carpet is like a sink. It collects soils, pollens, insecticides, exhaust, etc. that gets tracked in or blown in from the polluted outdoors. This creates an unhealthy indoor environment.

What About My Hard Surface Floors and Rugs?

Hard surface floors can also be permanently damaged by not being professionally cleaned on a regular basis.. For example, hardwood floors get deep scratch patterns. The grout on stone and tile floors isn’t sealed or the sealer has been affected by household cleaners and no longer repels the soil and spillage. Also, the grout is a valley that the soil gets mopped into on a daily basis.

And finally, a 9 x 12 Oriental Rug can hold up to 87 pounds of soil without looking dirty! This was demonstrated by a study done by the Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Company. So, get your rugs cleaned about once a year as well, including removing the dry soil.

Until Next time,

Aaron Sabartinelli IICRC Certified Carpet Technician