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Carpet Cleaning: Spotting and Stain Removal

Friday, August 21st, 2009

Does your Cleaning Company remove all of the stains from your carpets?

I ask this question because most cleaners I know do not even have a spotting kit on their truck. Removing stains such as Kool Aid, grease, paint, make up and rust will require specialty spotting to remove these stains.

To remove most stains in carpets the process should consist of these fundamental steps:

  1. Pre Vacuum : This will help remove more of the dry soil and sand from the carpet.
  2. Pre Treat :By pre treating the carpets, this step will help suspend the oily soil that sticks to the carpet fibers so it can be easily removed in the rinse step
  3. Rinse: This will remove the suspended soils and cleaning agents out of the carpet
  4. Spotting: Cleaning Solutions designed for a specific spot or stain
  5. Rinse: To remove cleaning solution
  6. Groom: Creates a neater appearance and faster dry times
  7. Dry: Carpet dryers to help speed the process up. Most carpets dry in 1-3 hours

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Carpet Cleaning Tampa: High traffic areas

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

While cleaning carpets today, I had a customer ask me about a high traffic area in front of her sofa.

She had moved her sofa to a different location and there was an area in front of the sofa that appeared worn out. She wanted to know why that area still looked so bad after the cleaning.

I explained that sand and grit had scratched the face of the fiber causing it to be distorted.

If the carpet is fairly new, many customers will think that the carpet has worn out in those areas. Carpet manufacturers disagree with this term. They consider this as ugly out.

This could have been avoided by more frequent vacuuming and cleaning frequency. Proper door mats will also help in removing of the sand and grit that causes this type of condition.

Vacuuming should be done daily in the high traffic areas to prevent this from happening.

Professional Carpet Cleaning using a low moisture hot water extraction process, should be done at least every 12 to 18 months.

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