By Jamie Palmer
There are many home projects you can do yourself fairly simply: swapping out light fixtures, repairing walls, painting, and even installing appliances. But when it comes to rugs and flooring, it’s worth it to hire a professional carpet cleaner. Here are several points to consider when trying to decide how best to clean and protect your carpets:
Keeping it pretty. Carpet completes the look of a room. However, a dingy, dirty carpet can make the cleanest, tidiest, and most well-designed room look bad. Really bad. While you may be able to use some home products that temporarily improve the look and diminish the appearance of stains, professional equipment is specifically designed for this purpose and will most definitely be the best way to make your carpet look pretty again. Experts know that different brands and styles require different treatments to make them look their best and to keep them looking their best. Using the wrong products can compromise the integrity of the color and texture of your carpet. It’s simply a risk not worth taking with such an expensive, important investment.
Protect your investment. Carpet is expensive but can be quickly destroyed even by normal wear and tear. Just like gold clubs last longer when cleaned between uses, flooring can look better when regular cleaning prevents an unhealthy- and ugly- buildup of dirt and grime. As these pollutants start to build, carpets become matted and worn faster which leads to permanent damage. A professional carpet cleaning a few times a year can make your carpet look better longer but more importantly, it can make it last years longer before requiring replacement. Even delaying the expense for only a year could save you a great deal of money. Giving your carpets the proper attention by the proper professionals can truly make all the difference.
Proper cleaning processes. Trained, professional carpet cleaners have the best equipment the industry has to offer plus their training, education, and skills with modern carpet cleaning equipment can’t be beat by even the best do-it-yourself techniques. The rumor for a long time was that steam cleaning carpet was the best method for thorough cleaning and carpet dirt removal. Research has shown that the best way to remove dirt, kill bacteria, and preserve a clean look on your carpet is to clean with hot water. Really hot water. Professional carpet cleaning equipment combines engineering, science, and technology to get the best systems to thoroughly clean these surfaces. A regular person with a bucket, cleaners, gloves, and even dedicated elbow grease just can’t compare to advanced machinery with trained and skilled cleaners.
Long-term protection. In the olden days (for me, that’d be the 80s when I was a kid), we thought soap was the best way to address any and every cleaning situation. We’d scrub anything with soap and take our chances of ruining it just to be sure it was truly clean. This attitude applied to carpet cleaning, as well. We’d fill a bucket with soap and water and suds up as much as possible so we’d feel like it was really clean when we were finally finished. As it is with so many things from the past, off course we’ve since learned that we were wrong. Mixing soap in with the carpet fibers didn’t really get them clean. Like putting on more perfume when we’re sweaty and gross, adding soap only did that- it added soap. The added problem from using all that soap was that the residue left behind didn’t dissipate or wear off with time or use. Instead, that soap became almost a sticky glue that attracted dirt and held onto it, making carpets even worse than they’d been before. The secret to clean carpets, really clean, long-term clean carpets isn’t steam or soap; it’s hot water. And lots of it. Only a professional carpet cleaner can really get your carpets clean. Plus, most offer added protections like extra coating that protects carpet from future wear and staining. Just like we fill cavities and apply sealants to prevent further damage and protect our teeth from the surrounding elements, we can do the same with carpet. Professional carpet cleaners have the proper chemicals and know how to treat carpet fibers in ways that prevent further damage.
Time-saving. We’re all busy these days. With kids in 100 activities, work, school, family, and friends, there’s a lot to do and seemingly never enough time to do it. Who wants to spend a day on their hands and knees or worse, wrestling with rented, unfamiliar carpet cleaning equipment trying to get a job done that could take a professional a quarter of the time? They do the work for you: they pull up to your house, cart all the high-tech equipment in, clean everything, and then put it all back in the truck leaving only clean surfaces behind. Saving all that time doing it yourself gives you that much more time to devote to all the other things and people wanting and needing your time, energy, and attention. Totally worth it!
Cost-effective. Carpet cleaners are everywhere and compete hard for your business. There’s always a great deal going on somewhere offering additional discounts, free rooms cleaned, extra services, referral savings, etc. A little research could save you a small fortune. For example, Immaculate Carpet Cleaning in Alpine, Utah offers a free room cleaned or $50 off just for signing up for their monthly newsletter. They also offer discounts for referring friends and family to them for cleaning. With that kind of value, it’s worth the time to seek discount opportunities and use that savings to justify even further seeking out and securing the services of a professional carpet cleaner. It’s worth what little they charge to have the job done faster, better, and more thoroughly than you could ever do it yourself. Some challenges just aren’t worth the trouble of solving yourself- plus, chances are that you wouldn’t really be solving the problem, you might even be making it more complicated with using the wrong systems, equipment, techniques, and products; carpet cleaning is definitely one of those things!
Advanced technical knowledge. Technology is rapidly advancing in every aspect of our lives. No matter what the industry, somewhere somebody is researching how to make it better and faster. The same applies to professional carpet cleaning. Engineers spend their days and months studying carpet fibers, how to kill the associated bacteria, and noting the best methods and solutions for carpet cleaning. All of these processes are designed to clean carpets, kill germs, and prevent further problems associated with regular use of these surfaces. No matter how careful you are, your floors will be walked on every day. Even without shoes allowed on the carpet, there will be germs and other things that get dropped, spread, spilled, dumped, etc., on flooring. It’s only natural to have spills or accidents that introduce unpleasant contaminants to these surfaces. Children can create added challenges with vomit, etc., that eventually, somehow, in some way, makes its way to the floor. You can scrub and scrub but remnants of those accidents will forever remain without the proper cleaning treatment to remove the substances thoroughly and prevent further bacteria from sprouting up out of the goo. Let the scientists’ research work for you and hire the professionals who not only know how to solve these challenges but have the proper equipment to make certain all is well.
Complete surface cleaning. Most professional carpet cleaners clean more than just carpets; they have the knowledge, machinery, and experience to properly clean many different surfaces from tile and grout to furniture and window coverings. It isn’t just carpets that collect pollutants, dirt, bacteria, and dust, the other surfaces in our home naturally attract these things, too. It’s important to treat different fabrics and materials differently and to know which method works best for which material. If you use the wrong substance to clean, you could do permanent damage to the cleaning focus item. It’s worth the added minimal expense to have the cleaner take care of these extra surfaces, too. The peace of mind and added comfort from knowing these areas are also clean and fresh is worth considering. In most cases, if the cleaner is already there, they’ll offer a super discounted rate to add on these services after your carpet cleaning. Don’t forget to ask about these details when you call for your estimate!
Preventing health issues. Environmental allergies are at an all-time high; almost anything and everything can make you or anyone in your family sick. It’s more important than ever to kill as much bacteria as possible and to rid your home of troublesome bacteria that can create or complicate the health issues of your loved ones. Professional carpet cleaners have equipment that costs tens of thousands of dollars. That equipment is designed to clean carpets using advanced techniques to kill allergens and other threats to your health. It’s wise to utilize these services to prevent creating a situation where dangerous germs and bacteria can act together to exacerbate already troubling health problems. Your home should be a healthy, clean place where its occupants feel as healthy and strong as possible. Keeping your carpets from harboring pollutants is the responsible, smart, and healthy choice!
In the end, hiring a professional carpet cleaner has many, many advantages. It’s definitely worth the money to invest in saving time, energy, effort, and your investments by getting the right person to do the work necessary to make your home a cleaner, fresher, healthier place.
Resources:
http://ezinearticles.com/?Why-You-Should-Hire-a-Professional-Carpet-Cleaner&id=8467957
www.carpet-rug.org
http://pdfcast.org/pdf/why-to-hire-a-professional-carpet-cleaner
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