Carpet cleaning MYTHs answered by worlds best carpet restorer

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Cleaning your carpets properly is as important as regularly cleaning your clothing in the correct manner. You wouldnt walk on your cloths, let alone wear them daily till they wore out without washing or cleaning them? No you wouldnt walk on them intentionally in the first place and you most certainly wouldnt wear them dirty for that long as the smell would make you sick before you got to the door.

Just like most of your clothing, carpets are made from fibres, though woven differently. And heres something you may not have realised many of the most common fibres for carpets and rugs are in fact used in clothing as well. Reiterating the difference in the weaves. Who said carpets are not suits? There is tale that back in the 1960s a salesman wore a suit made from carpet to show its durability and versatility. So just like your clothes, your carpets need to be cleaned and maintained properly. Sure you dont need to hang it up, unless its a wall rug. But you do need to keep it clean and cared for. Contrary to the belief, some carpets are not solely designed to be cleaned in any one particular way.

In fact now days most carpets can be cleaned in a variety of ways and in conjunction with one of a few other ways that in actual fact you should be doing one of at least weekly as basic maintenance for both your and your carpets health. Just as you would shake, use a lint roller or even vacuum your cloths to remove fluff, dust etc. before putting them away or on. You should at least sweep or vacuum your carpet. And just as you regularly either wash your clothes or send them to the cleaners for cleaning, you should have your carpets and upholstery cleaned in the manner that best suits them.

In fact we developed (NPC) Neutralising Penitration Clean, which was then swiftly followed by our developing a veriation of dry cleaning known as (MPC) Moist Penitration Clean, which turns out to be benificial to you and your family as it removes 97.1% more lead than standard cleans and is only bettered by a clean specificly for removing lead including against the kick boards, which only gets about a further 0.9%. In some countries there is a difference in price that relates to the style or type of carpet cleaning service. To a degree that is true, but now days, quite often it bears little semblance on the quality of service, time taken, or job result.

MYTHS AND LEGENDS ARE FOR THE FAIRTALE BOOKS

CARPET CLEANING MYTH Steam Cleaning: is the application of a powerful liquid solution under pressure which is then removed using powerful vaccumm motors.

Boy this is a doozy of confused identity. This is the desription of hot or cold water extraction methods. To the uneducated and or untrained it is indeed very easy to mistake the fine mist of liquid bouncing up from the floor as steam. And granted at a glance some Steam cleaners for carpet and upholstery do look like water extraction machines but that is where the difference ends. Proper steam cleaning involves the pressurised and controled release of a steam solution, which in the case of carpet cleaning is the picked up by the vaccumm portion of the equipment. Steam can only generate and remain such if the solution is boiling or near boiling. Most water extraction machines pumps would falter at releasing the steam at an appropriate speed and pressure to maintain the solution as steam even if it could handel the temperature. Also, as you know steam can quickly cause third degree burns. Most so called steam cleaners would be lucky to lightly scald you if they accidently wet you, this is because if the machine does not have a pressure boiler that can handel the 140 deg c required to make the required steam, chances are it is only a water extraction machine. Hot water extraction machines often have a normal boiler attached by hose systems, but not always.
CARPET CLEANING MYTH Steam Cleaning carpet reduces its lifespan
This myth is actually true. Every time we have seen a carpet that has been steam cleaned, it has been damaged. It gets stretched by the excessive heat and the pressure of the applecation wand and as a result dries rippled. In the case of Wool it also shrinks, why do you think the washing instructions on wool clothes say warm wash or dry clean only. The steam actually sets most of the stains, enables some of the dirt to get locked in the fibres when they contract as they cool. About the only great thing about steam cleaning your carpet is if you have fleas or dust mites it kills them.

CARPET CLEANING TRUTH Steam Cleaning is difficult to understand
Truth: Steam cleaning is cleaning carpet/upholstery with the pressurised and controled release of a steam solution, which in the case of carpet cleaning is the picked up by the vaccumm portion of the equipment. Killing and removing fleas and dust mites, along with much dirt. Stains can and often are set by this method.

CARPET CLEANING MYTH 1 Steam Cleaning (Water extraction) is the best way to clean your carpets. AND
CARPET CLEANING MYTH 2 Dry Cleaning is the best way to clean your carpets.
Now days it is more the case that since carpets can be cleaned in a variety of ways it is best they are cleaned in the manner that best suits them. This means that the best method to clean your carpets can be any one of them, but a true and experienced carpet cleaner will be able to figure it out normally by the end of the first time they clean it. However, this is also influenced, and sometimes greatly so, by the very chemicals and cleaning agents he or she chooses to use. I have quite often come across carpets that clean best with either a multiple method blend or by alternating cleaning methods.

I even have competitors of type who, as they only do water extraction, call upon either myself or even a carpet cleaner that only dry cleans to do the alternation clean when it falls due. In fact the carpet in my very own home is one of those duel method cross alternating. Dry three cleans, then wet next clean, then wet followed by dry off using the dry equipment.

Thats a five clean alternating cycle. But the proof is in the pudding so to speak. When we moved in there the agent made comment on how it really needed replacing and it was only six years old, but it also was the cheap stuff. After six months and two NPCs, the agent was amazed. This nylon carpet is now 14 years old and if it was not for the sun rot in the bedroom and the seams starting to be visible through out (as does the cheaper carpets at this age), the carpet could be considered in far better condition than when we moved in.

CARPET CLEANING MYTH Dry Cleaning rubs carpet using a damp, twirling sponge.
I truely had to laugh the first time I heard this one. Firstly, it is not a sponge, it is a pad. Secondly, the pads are made of varying fibres for the various serface types (and user preference). Then to make it a little more fun there are also brushes of three different hardnesses that can be used either instead of the pads or as a prepretory scrubber. Thirdly, though the pads can be dampened before use that is often not the case as the carpet is generally presprayed with the cleaning mix so as to promote the best clean.

More dirt is picked up in this type of clean if the brushes are used to get down deep and pull the dirt up with the centrifical forces the rotating creates, followed by the pads to collect surface dirt. The medium and hard brushes kill fleas and smash thier eggs, they also cut up your toes quite nicely if they get under a working machine with no shoes to protect them. And finally it is actually moist or buffer cleaning, as true dry cleaning is done when you sweep or vaccumm.

CARPET CLEANING MYTH People in the know recommend that dry cleaning is best.
This is another one of those where you can fill the method name with whatever method you like. I cant state this one enough can I. It really depends on your carpet. Trust me it may not be a living thing, but it has a personality all its own. No two houselots of carpet are alike and in some cases no two rooms of carpet within a house are alike. They all respond how they respond and you have to work with it if you want the best life out of your carpet.

But the worlds largest textile manufacturers recommend steam cleaning, I hear some say. Yeah, for textiles, maybe but not all fibres make textiles and not all floor coverings are textiles either. And lets face it though both carpet and textiles are made of fibres, carpet is not a fabric, it does not get removed from the floor for cleaning and therefore when it is cleaned there is an entire side that does not get free air circulation while drying. The backings quite often react by either streatching or shrinking if the moisture gets to them sufficiently which can happen in just about any method that uses moisture.

What about the leading carpet experts? Well not all of them state a particular method over the others. Especially the experts who know that it is not just the mechanical method used but more over the cleaning agents ability to perform when used correctly in conjunction with the equipment by the write opperator.

CARPET CLEANING MYTH High pH, Strip Cleaning removes the returning grey stains and most residues and dirt from carpets.
Whatever Bozzo came up with this one I would like to award you with the carpet care idiot of the trimellenium award. Why, well lets look at a few things shall we. For starters high pH is not only caustic to our (Human) skin, it is caustic full stop. The grey or brown stains will return if you keep spilling sticky substances. I would not let an infant or small child any where near a carpet that has been cleaned with high pH (unless a proper neutralisation clean has been performed after). Then there is the fact that common household bleach (chlorine) is what, HIGH pH.

And we all know bleach strips colour from fibres and fabrics. What you may not know is that if not rinsed properly and neutralised high pH substances like bleach and high pH cleaners can actually desintergrate carpet fibres. I mean the things actualy disappear alltogether over time, leaving nothing but a hole showing the concrete beneath.

Other thing high pH cleaning chemicals are good for is destablising red carpet dye. It will actually make the red dye act in all sorts of not nice for the carpet dyer ways, upsetting the clients as the colour is off to something other than thier chosen one. And it makes the red fade quicker out of the carpets it cleans though this is not as immeadiately noticable.

CARPET CLEANING MYTH Anyone can steam clean carpets!
While in fact just about anyone can perform water extraction method carpet cleaning, which is what this myth is actually about. Not everyone can do it properly. One has a better chance of doing the job well, than properly. Even many so called trained personel cant do it properly, but they sure can do what they do well.

Guess what not even with the access to all the specialised equipment and cleaning agents, stain treatments and training in the world would guarantee someone can do the job properly. Yet there are in actual fact a small handful of us across the world.

That with a decent and suitable cleaning agent, A wet and dry vaccumm and throw in an upholstery tool for.... to use as the applictor and suction head and as long as we need to do the whole house. The only things that will give away the fact that though we are professionals, we did not use specialty gear etc., is the day or two it took to clean 3 bedrooms, a lounge, dining room and hall or stairs, how stiff we are bending and straightening. And the smallness of the cleaning impressions from the hand or upholstery tool.