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How to Know When It’s Time to Finally Replace Those Carpets

rugYour carpets look haggard. There are stains, the Berber is all over the place, and some of the carpet fibers are getting pulled out by your cats. It’s annoying, frustrating, and even detecting at times when you come home and, even though you vacuumed yesterday, it simply doesn’t look very good.

How do you know when it’s time to replace carpets or choose to hire a professional carpet cleaning service?

Consider age.

How old are the carpets? If they are at least six, seven, or eight years old, and if you’ve never had them professionally cleaned before, there will probably be limited benefits to hiring a carpet cleaning service.

Don’t get us wrong, a professional and experienced carpet cleaning company can certainly do wonders, but if you’re hoping to restore your carpets to ‘like new’ condition, it’s simply not going to happen.

Consider usage.

How many people live in your house? Do you have children? How many? How often do their friends come over? Is your wife or husband constantly having people coming and going? Do these people in your family or roommates tend to take care of things or do they not really care at all?

The more use your carpets have gotten, the more stains they’ve been subject to, and the more likely some of those stains, including possibly pet urine, have made it all the way down to the foam padding underneath.

While a carpet cleaning service can certainly help, the longer those liquids and other materials soak into the surface, the more it begins to break down the carpet itself, the foam underpadding, and that creates less cushion and more odors you don’t want to deal with anymore.

Can a professional carpet cleaning service restore them?

Your carpets may very well be seven or eight years old, but they’ve seen little usage through the years, at least comparatively speaking. A professional carpet cleaning service may very well be up to help.

The more you take care of your carpets in the short-term, the more benefits you’ll receive in the long-term and it can also help you avoid the expense of replacing all of your carpets for at least 10 or 12 years.

How to Properly Test Cleaning Solutions on Your Carpeting

Stain RemovalIf you are determined to try and remove the stain yourself, that’s okay.

First, though, test the cleaning solution in an inconspicuous area of the room.

This should be behind a large piece of furniture, under a couch, in a corner, or somewhere that doesn’t get a lot of foot traffic and where you can’t really see it. If you plan to move furniture around in the future, and if this cleaning solution does damage to the carpet beyond what the stain does, you may be limited on just how much you can rearrange things.

Apply a very small amount to this inconspicuous area of the carpeting.

Let the cleaning solution sit for a while. Wait the appropriate time, as per the directions. Then blot up the cleaning solution.

Does it appear to discolor the carpeting or damage it in any way? If not, it may be safe to use.

Unfortunately, most stains require a bit more than just a cleaning solution; they require powerful section to draw up the water and cleaning solution and staining material. You’re only going to get that kind of power from commercial carpet cleaning machines with a professional and experienced carpet cleaning service.

3 Tips to Choosing the Right Vacuum Cleaner for Your Home

tips to help keep your house looking goodYour vacuum cleaner is one of the most important lines of defense you have against dirt buildup throughout your house. It’s also an important tool to help protect your floors and carpets. While even the most powerful residential vacuum cleaner isn’t enough to keep your carpets as clean as possible, between professional carpet cleaning services coming into your home every six months or one year, at a minimum, you should make sure the vacuum cleaner you have is doing the job right.

Here are three tips to help you select the right vacuum cleaner for your home and budget.

Tip #1: Invest in it.

Don’t look at it as an expense. Think of it as an investment. When you think of things as an expense, you have a tendency to try and save as much money as possible. When you think of something as an investment, you take more time and go through all of your options, even being willing to spend a little bit more because the dividends it pays in the end.

Tip #2: Focus on suction.

The suction power is incredibly important when it comes to a residential vacuum cleaner. However, don’t assume the most powerful cleaner on the market is going to be enough to get the dirt from deep down in the carpet fiber. You will still need a professional carpet cleaning service at least once a year to help with that.

Tip #3: Consider ease-of-use.

How easy is this vacuum cleaner going to be to use? If you have carpeted stairs, will you be able to carry this up and down and easily take care of those parts of the house?

If you end up with a heavy, bulky vacuum cleaner that’s difficult to maneuver, you’re not likely going to be using it as often as you should.

5 Tips for Finding the Best Carpet Cleaning Expert

carpet cleaning torontoYou want to find the best carpet cleaning company. Your home is your castle. You want to protect it. You’ve noticed that your carpets are not looking as great as they did when they were first installed. That might’ve been a year or two ago, and if you have children, many roommates, or relatively messy people living with you, it can take a serious toll on the condition of your carpeting.

Here are five tips that can help you find the best carpet cleaning expert for your home and budget.

Tip #1: Shop around.

Don’t necessarily hire the first company you see. You might end up choosing them in the end, but you want to make sure you have all of your options available before you commit.

Tip #2: Focus on experience.

A company that has a high turnover rate probably doesn’t have many cleaning professionals with a lot of experience. Ask about the level of experience they have, especially those service technicians who will actually be doing the work inside your house.

Tip #3: Discuss the process.

Any carpet cleaning company or individual who is reluctant or resistant to discuss the process they use is probably trying to hide something. They should be more than open and honest in explaining exactly what they do.

Tip #4: Focus on equipment.

What kind of equipment does this company or individual you rely upon for cleaning carpets have?

Many small, new companies starting out have a tendency to rent these machines and as we’ve mentioned in previous blogs, you simply don’t know what they were used to clean before they were brought into your home.

Tip #5: Look at reviews.

Thanks to the Internet, you can read reviews on many companies all across the country and around the world. Take advantage of that. If the company doesn’t have any reviews on the major sites, there could be a good reason for that.

It doesn’t necessarily mean they’re not a good company, but you have to pay closer attention to these other tips and strategies to ensure you choose a company with which you’ll be happy.

Pay Attention to the Air Ducts to Keep Your Home Cleaner During Winter

Cleaning heater vent withVacuumIt seems no matter how often you vacuum the carpets, sweep the floors, mop, and even dust, every time you turn around your home feels dirty. You see a fine film of dust collecting on the coffee table, on a shelf, and you know if it’s building up there, it’s also building up on the floor and carpeting once again.

You may get in the habit of vacuuming every few days.

That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but you need to understand where dust comes from. 80 percent of the dust in the average home is actually the product of dead skin cells. Your body, and anyone else who lives with you, is shedding dead skin cells on average every seven days. There’s nothing you can do about that.

Unfortunately, that may not be the only culprit to all of this extra dirt building up.

If you have forced hot air or central air conditioning (which is not all that common in this part of the country), then you have ductwork throughout your house. In the ductwork, this dust will build up. If you don’t clean the interior of the ducts and the registers regularly, every time the heats turns on during the winter, forcing hot air through those ducts and into each room in your house, it’s also going to collect some of that dust and blow it out through those registers.

It’s not easy to clean these air ducts.

You may need some specialized equipment. What you can do in the meantime is remove the registers, or vent covers, clean them thoroughly, and use your vacuum cleaner to reach as far into the ducts as possible.

You should also have your carpets professionally cleaned afterward and that will give you a great starting point moving forward throughout the rest of the winter and into the springtime months coming up.

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