Monday 10 May 2010

Carpet Clean


There are two popular ways of cleaning carpet. Dry cleaning and steam cleaning.

First I would like to tell you about dry cleaning. Dry cleaning is not really dry per say. A high PH chemical is applied to the carpet with a pump sprayer then the cleaning process is executed with the use of a very heavy floor buffer that you would normally see cleaning or waxing hard surface flooring.

There is no extraction (vacuum) in the cleaning process. So... where dose the dirt go? Some of the dirt is absorbed by the cotton bonnet on the buffer then distributed to the rest of your carpet giving you the illusion that the stains are gone when in fact they have been moved from a concentrated area to the rest of your carpet.

The dry cleaning method may be ok for new and unstained carpet but if your carpet is actually stained and soiled this method is only going to clean out your wallet.

Now I will tell you about steam cleaning. Steam cleaning carpet is not actually steam. Actual steam would most likely delaminate the carpet so the phrase steam cleaning actually came from the appearance of steam as the carpet cleaning wand passes over the floor.

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