Carpet Cleaning
 What are the Facts about Carpet Cleaning?
FACT#1 - Over ninety percent of the Professional Carpet Cleaners use Hot Water Extraction (Steam) Cleaning as their primary methods for residential carpet cleaning.
FACT#2 - No carpet cleaning method removes all soiling. Hot Water Extraction (Steam) Cleaning, when done properly by a trained, certified professional cleaner, is the most effective carpet cleaning method for removing the greatest percentage of soiling.
FACT#3 - No carpet cleaning method leaves no cleaning solution or moisture residue. Hot Water Extraction is the only method that uses water to freely rinse cleaning solutions from the carpet the same way you use water to rinse your fabrics when they are cleaned in a clothes washer. Hot Water Extraction, used properly, leaves the least amount of residue behind after cleaning.
FACT#4 - Hot Water Extraction contributes to a healthier indoor environment by extracting soil, pollutants, allergens, and sources of bacteria and odor to the outside.
FACT#5 - Many so called "dry" carpet cleaning methods mix their cleaning chemical with water. Other "dry" cleaning chemicals contain strong solvent chemicals which may actually be harmful if used improperly. Most "dry" cleaning methods are primarily recommended by fiber producers and carpet mills for appearance maintenance cleaning only of commercial carpets.
FACT#6 - Today's "Vacuum Balanced" Hot Water Extraction Cleaning not only is the most effective method of doing the best job of cleaning carpets, it dries faster than ever before, usually within 4 hours.
Hot Water Extraction ("Steam") Cleaning - The Critical Facts
- Carpet is installed on the floor.
- Because of gravity, things fall down to the floor and collect on the carpet, which serves as a sink. In addition, carpet acts like a filter and collects airborne contaminants.
- Soil, bacteria, allergens, pollutants, and dust make up these things that fall onto, and collect in, the carpeting.
- Soiled carpeting looks bad, is not healthy, and has a greater tendency to wear faster and pack and mat more quickly.
- The sink must be cleaned or emptied of its contents; i.e. the soil, bacteria, allergens, pollutants, and dust must be cleaned out.
- Our first priority in cleaning is to make the carpet healthier and secondly to improve its appearance.
- Hot water extraction cleaning consists of pre spray cleaning solution application, the injection under pressure of a hot water soluble cleaning solution onto the carpet, followed by an immediate powerful vacuum extraction.
- Hot water extraction cleaning applies four different indoor air pollution reduction principles to reduce contamination.
- Hot water extraction cleaning refreshes the texture of carpeting.
- Carpet that has been properly cleaned by hot water extraction will dry within 1 to 12 hours under most environmental conditions. hot water extraction, properly performed, does not cause seam separation, mildew, rotting, shrinkage, browning, rapid re soiling, nor does it set stains permanently.
- Hot water extraction cleaning is recognized by all fiber producers and all major carpet mills as a safe, effective process for carpet cleaning.
- Children and pets should be kept off any freshly cleaned carpet for 2 to 4 hours until the carpet is dry.
- Some of the carpet fiber manufacturers and carpet mills that recognize hot water extraction (steam) cleaning as safe, effective cleaning method when done properly by a trained, qualified professional.
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