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No More Snow, No More Slush, No More Tracked in Salt, Sand, and Muck … Does That Mean Your Carpets Are Still Clean?

winter-window1-242x300Winter is well behind us. It feels great, doesn’t it? Of course, if you are a winter sports enthusiast, then you might not like summer very much, but the vast majority of people enjoy time at the beach, barbecues, outdoor sporting events, hiking, and much more. Since we no longer have to deal with snow and slush, we no longer have to worry about tracked in salt, sand, and other muck commonly associated with winter precipitation. So, does that mean you can neglect your carpets?

Absolutely not.

The rain is going to fall. Dust and dirt is prevalent. Residual sand from the winter plowing season is going to remain on sidewalks, driveways, the edges of roadways, and so on. Children and adults alike are going to be tracking in most of that dirt and other foreign materials.

Even if people remove their shoes as soon as they step through the door, dirt will begin to collect, it will get caught in the fibers of socks, and tracked throughout the house.

Yes, you vacuum, and that’s good.

Vacuuming is important. However, not even the strongest, most powerful and expensive residential vacuum cleaner in the world is strong enough to get all of the dirt and other particulates and foreign contaminants out of the carpet fibers. That’s why, even after you vacuum, when the sun is shining through the windows at the right angle, you can see a cloud of dust billowing up into the air if you run across the carpeting, dragging your feet because it’s kicking everything up that your vacuum missed.

It’s a good idea to have your carpets professionally cleaned this summer.

It’s highly advisable to have your carpets professionally cleaned twice a year, once during the winter, perhaps toward the tail end of it, and again in the summer. It will not only help those carpets look their best, but protect them well into the future.

The One MAJOR Mistake Too Many Homeowners Make When Relying on Scotchguard to Protect Their Carpets

That ‘New Carpet’ Smell isn’t Always PleasantPurchasing brand new carpets for your entire house can be quite the expense. The average home might have wall-to-wall carpeting in three bedrooms, the family room, and perhaps one other room. Some have more, some less. To carpet an entire house might cost $5,000 or more.

Many homeowners do accept Scotchgard as an add-on.

This is wonderful. Scotchgard and other protective measures do work, to some degree. However, when there is a spill of any kind, when a dog has an accident, a cat gets sick, a child spills grape juice, a husband drops some spaghetti sauce on it, or anything else occurs, it’s too easy to panic and make a major mistake.

The biggest mistake people make.

Scrubbing out stains. This is, by far, the single greatest mistake homeowners make when something gets spilled onto their carpeting, whether it is brand new or several years old. Just because carpeting has been coated with Scotchgard doesn’t mean the liquid or other substances isn’t going to work its way down into the carpet fibers. If you jump at it with paper towels, another type of towel, or even sponge and begin scrubbing away, what you are doing initially is pushing it deeper down into the carpet pile, beyond the Scotchgard protection.

It’s necessary to blot the stain.

If there is any material on the carpet that could stain it, the Scotchgard is going to do what it can hold it on top. Take paper towels or other towels and lightly blot at the stain.

This takes time!

Don’t become impatient. Lightly blotting at the stain is going to allow the cloth or paper towels to absorb the maximum amount of it. From there, you should notice just how effective Scotchgard can be at protecting your carpeting.

Still, it’s important to have those carpets professionally cleaned as soon as possible. You don’t need your entire house cleaned room by room if they are brand new or you just had somebody do it within a few months; you can contact a company like Royal Interior Cleaning to come out your house and do spot cleaning on those stains.

3 Tips to Finding the Right Carpet Cleaning Service for Your Home, Expectations, and Budget

to tip or not to tipYou understand that a carpet cleaning service is important to not only help protect your carpets and allow them to last as long as possible, thus protecting your investment in them, but also providing a healthier and safer environment for you and your family. In fact, many pollutants get trapped in the stubborn carpet fibers and even the most powerful vacuum cleaner is unable to draw them out.

Some of those pollutants can include pollen, but also bacteria and germs. If you only vacuum and don’t have a professional carpet cleaning service come out to your home at least once a year (twice a year is optimal), if anyone is lying down on the carpet, such as children, rolling around and wrestling, and so on, they are being intimately exposed to those pollutants.

Once you accept the value of carpet cleaning services, here are three tips that will help you find the right one for you. At Royal Interior Cleaning, we certainly would love your trust and business, but more importantly is that you feel comfortable and confident in your decision.

Tip #1: Focus on companies that have positive ratings online.

Search engines and other services provide opportunities for customers to review various businesses. A carpet cleaning company should have at least a fair number of reviews to give you some insight into whether or not they do a good job, their technicians are professional and courteous, and if they are responsive to customer needs. Check out those reviews and only focus your attention on those that have a positive reputation.

Tip #2: You get what you pay for.

If you are trying to save as much money as possible on carpet cleaning services, you will be able to find cheap providers. Unfortunately, what many customers don’t realize is only truck mounted equipment is going to be truly effective to get those stubborn stains and bacteria and germs out of the carpet. If you want to go cheap, cheap is what you’ll get.

Tip #3: Determine the company’s responsiveness to you.

When you contact the company, ask to speak to somebody directly so you can ask a few pointed questions. Are they responsive? Do they get back to you within a reasonable amount of time? If you take days or weeks for a return phone call, what does that say about the company itself?

How Much Furniture Should You Move Out of the Room Where a Professional Carpet Cleaning Service Is About to Come In?

Upholstery Cleaning TorontoYou’re waiting on a professional carpet cleaning service to come to your home to clean all of the carpets. You may have carpets in two or three bedrooms, the family room, and maybe even the living room. If you hired the right company, they should have advised you to move as much furniture as possible out of the way.

So, how much furniture should you consider moving?

That all depends on the room itself, the item of furniture, and a number of other factors. If you have a bedroom, for example, and the bed is a queen or king size mattress, you have a large dresser, and these items rarely ever move, if at all, then it’s not practical to move those items out of the way.

However, you might have a tendency to move the nightstands to do some vacuuming around them, smaller items of furniture like an end table, coffee table, recliner, and so on. These smaller items of furniture, if you are physically capable of moving them, should be moved.

When you have the carpet cleaning service scheduled, the night before or possibly the morning of, get some help and move these mobile furniture items into another room. That will allow the carpet cleaning professional to come in and do the best job possible.

If this individual has to maneuver around a host of small furniture items and is expected by the homeowner to move them, that is not their job (unless there’s an arrangement made, and that usually means more money). They may simply clean around them, assuming since they were not moved that it isn’t important.

If you want the best job done, take the advice of the person you speak to, move as much as you can out of the way, and be prepared to leave it out of the room until the carpet completely dries, which might take several hours or an entire day.

If Your Vacuum Cleaner Has a HEPA Filter, When Was the Last Time It Was Replaced? This Could Be Impacting Indoor Air Quality

vacuum-Not every residential vacuum cleaner has a HEPA filter, but if yours does, when was the last time you replaced it? This may not seem like a major concern, especially if you don’t have allergies, but it could be impacting the cleanliness of your carpets.

A clogged HEPA filter can reduce suction power.

It’s the same with any other type of filter that may be in a vacuum cleaner. Take a wet/dry vacuum cleaner, for example. Inside this unit, as simple as it is, there is a filter. This filter is designed to catch dust and dirt and keep it from flying back out of the machine.

When the filter gets clogged, air can’t flow through and it reduces section. It reduces power and effectiveness. The same concept holds true when you have a HEPA filter on a vacuum cleaner.

These filters are designed to capture even the smallest particulates that may cause allergies for some people. These might be microscopic, even smaller than dust you see flying around in the air. Still, given enough time and use, these filters can become clogged. If you have a vacuum cleaner that has a HEPA filter on it, and you have no idea when it was last checked, cleaned out, or replaced, now is the time to do that.

Don’t make the assumption that a HEPA filter means cleaner floors.

It simply means the smallest particulates could get trapped by the vacuum cleaner, at least the particulates that get sucked up. In your carpeting there are far more particulates, including pollutants, allergens, and bacteria and other germs, that are going to get tossed up into the air when people walk across the surface just after you vacuumed.

If you’re concerned about the indoor air quality of your home, the safety and health of your family, then you need to realize the value of carpet cleaning services. A carpet cleaning with truck mounted equipment at least once a year can help improve air quality tremendously. Just don’t forget to replace that HEPA filter regularly.

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