Is steam cleaning the best choice for cleaning your carpets?
One of the biggest issues with steam cleaning carpets
is reoccurring carpet spots or stains (also known as wicking).
Carpeting (especially commercial carpet) is different from residential wall-to-wall carpet
and is usually a loop pile carpet like Berber carpet and is glued down without padding.
This carpet is notorious for cleaning up great and looking clean when done,
but as it dries the spots or stains will start to slowly reappear
and in heavy traffic areas you'll start to notice the areas don't stay looking clean.
Steam cleaning uses a lot of water when cleaning the carpet
and even though most of it is recovered and extracted,
the carpet will retain that moisture and take a few hours to fully dry.
This is a great option for deep cleaning,
but it's during the drying process that these spots or stains
can start to resurface and become an eyesore.
Another issue is going to be how long the carpet takes to fully dry.
The dry times for steam cleaning can be a few hours up to a full day to fully dry.
For most businesses that may be fine if the work is performed after hours or on a weekend
when the business will be closed, but there is a better method of cleaning
that can completely skip both these issues and provide better results.
Give us a call or email us today to set up an appointment or get an estimate for the work you need done.
(859) 777-6644
CompassCarpetRepair@gmail.com
All work is completed by the owner so you never have to worry about work being subcontracted out or someone else coming to your home. You can have peace of mind knowing once you call us it will be the same company coming out to take care of your work.
We price our work fair and reasonable so you get the quality work you deserve at a price you can afford. We don't upcharge or change our prices, once we give you an estimate that is the price we honor.
With years of experience on hundreds of different jobs, we have the knowledge and skill to handle many different types of repairs and installation jobs. We don't take shortcuts and believe in doing our best on every job to give you the best quality job we can.
Low moisture carpet cleaning has been around for a very long time,
it's just that the cleaning products used were different.
Most people will think of the major franchise Chem-Dry
which doesn't do steam cleaning but instead uses a low moisture
cleaning approach and has been for many years.
With low moisture carpet cleaning, equipment connected to a truck mount is not used
to clean the carpet, instead, usually, a 175-floor buffer machine is used
with microfiber or cotton pads to clean the carpet
by transferring the soil from the carpet to the pads.
This would be like spilling something and using a microfiber towel to soak up the spill,
the transfer to the towel is the same as transferring the soil
from the carpet to the pads used on the machine.
The most important step before doing this type of cleaning
is to do a very thorough vacuuming of the carpet to fully remove as much dry soil as possible.
Dry soil makes up the majority of what is in the carpet and if left there over time
and stepped on repeatedly will cause the carpet fibers to dull and become dingy.
By not vacuuming regularly, darker areas where there is a lot of foot traffic
will start to show and will cause irreversible damage.
No amount of deep cleaning (steam cleaning or low moisture cleaning) will be able to restore
the carpet fibers if they have been neglected for too long.
After a thorough vacuuming is done, all that's left to remove from the carpet fibers
is the 'sticky soil' which needs a cleaning solution to release the soil from the fibers.
Encapsulation cleaning products are great for releasing that sticky soil and capturing it
by turning that sticky soil into dry soil that can be removed much easier.
The encapsulation cleaning product is sprayed across the carpets
and then the 175-floor buffer is used to transfer that released soil over to the microfiber or cotton pad.
The 175-floor buffer is also agitating the carpet while cleaning to make sure
all that sticky soil is released and transferred to the pad.
Because most of the dry soil was removed before doing this,
there isn't a lot of water needed to rinse the carpet to remove the remaining sticky soil
and the microfiber or cotton pad is also absorbing some of the moisture while cleaning
which results in a dry time of 30-90 minutes.
Because the carpet dries so quickly, spots or stains don't have a chance to reappear
and the clients don't need to wait hours for their carpets to fully dry.
This is a perfect method for commercial carpet cleaning for businesses
that have light to moderate foot traffic and would like to maintain the carpet in their place of business.
It's also a great option for maintenance carpet cleaning in your home
if you don't have a lot of foot traffic in your home.
If you have a business that needs carpet cleaned in
or would like to see how well low moisture cleaning does in your home,
give us a call or email us today to set up an appointment or get an estimate for the work you need done.
(859) 777-6644
CompassCarpetRepair@gmail.com
We also offer carpet repair services and carpet re-stretching.
If you have any questions or would like to get an estimate started,
you can email us at CompassCarpetRepair@gmail.com or call / text us at (859) 777-6644