Carpet Cleaning

7 Factors That Increase Your Need for Professional Carpet Cleaning

• You have a pet. Pets shed, even if you have a short-hair, “non-shedding” pet. Your beloved animals also shed dander and produce body oil that sinks into the carpet when rolling around on the carpet. Plus, pet bathroom accidents automatically put you in the category of needing more frequent professional carpet cleaning.
• You have children. Kids are messy. Whether they’ve spilled food, gotten carried away with markers or crayons, had a diaper or potty training accident, or forgotten to remove their cleats before trudging through the house, a family with children needs to be on a regular carpet-cleaning schedule.
• You don’t take your shoes off. Maybe you come and go a lot and it saves time to not remove your shoes. Perhaps you prefer to keep your shoes somewhere other than at the front door so you wear them across the carpet to reach another closet or designated area. Whatever the situation, wearing your shoes exposes your carpet to whatever your shoes have walked upon all day and the weight of your feet in shoes grinds the dirt and bacteria deep into the carpet fibers.
• You walk around barefoot. While it’s far worse to walk around in your home while wearing shoes that bring in the dirt, pollen, and bacteria from outside, walking around barefoot all the time means your carpet is exposed to the oils from your feet and, over time, this can cause stains.
• You have allergies or asthma. If someone in your home suffers from allergies – seasonal or otherwise – or has a case of asthma, carpet cleaning is essential and should be done often. While carpet has been proven to be one of the healthiest filters for keeping allergens out of the air, keeping the breathing zone free of many contaminants, if the fibers are not properly maintained then you’re not helping the allergy and asthma sufferers in your midst. A professional carpet cleaning every six months is not unreasonable. If carpet is your filter, then keep your filter clean!
• You don’t clean spills immediately. It may seem like that drop of coffee on the rug is no big deal and you’ll clean it up more thoroughly later, but not tending to spills immediately will compromise the appearance of your carpet. Those small stains can become stains that are impossible to remove.
• Your carpet looks dirty. By the time your carpet looks dirty, then you can rest assured it is filthy down deep. Once a carpet begins showing serious soiling, this is evidence that permanent carpet fiber damage has occurred. The specialized and extremely powerful equipment used by professional carpet cleaners removes ground-in dirt that a vacuum just can’t penetrate.