Carpet Cleaning Information

Dry cleaning.

There are many methods of carpet cleaning... Carpet cleaners may use a dry cleaning system where they spread a low moisture cleaning solution or granules on your carpet and then vacuum them up. The benefits of this are that there is no real downtime of your carpets as they don't get wet and people can walk on them straight away. How ever the actual cleaning ability of this method is minimal when compared to other methods of carpet cleaning.

Bonnet carpet cleaning or rotary cleaning systems

The carpet cleaner will 'work' in a cleaning (liquid) solution into the carpet with a rotary machine with a soft carpet brush...again this a low moisture cleaning method so downtime is reduced. The carpet cleaner would then absorb the cleaning solution and what ever foam the shampoo/detergent has produced, using a bonnet mop (giant flannel) on the bottom of a rotary scrubbing machine. This leaves the carpet almost dry and is usually cheaper than some other methods. This method can be effective but if you imagine washing your hair with shampoo and then towel drying the shampoo out, this isn't a very appealing prospect as the shampoo residues will remain stuck to your hair and continue to attract dirt and grime. So always ask your carpet cleaner if he is sure this is the appropriate method to choose.

Hot water extraction cleaning

This is by far and away the best method of carpet cleaning there is. No question! The carpet cleaner will apply a pre spray to the carpet, this is the cleaning solution, and the cleaner should let the pre spray dwell on the carpet for up to 10 minutes, maybe working it into the carpet with a special rake. Then the professional carpet cleaner would then hot water extract the cleaning solution from the carpet. It does this by spraying at high-pressure rinse water onto the carpet at high pressure and then sucking it back up. This method completely rinses out the detergents or other cleaning solution used and leaves the carpet dry in a few hours.

Most problems with carpet cleaning come from over wetting of the carpet, or from not rinsing out/removing the cleaning solution properly. If the solution is not properly removed from your carpets then their residues will continue to attract dirt and soil and the carpets will rapidly deteriate and look worse than before they were cleaned. It is important to make sure your carpet cleaner has a powerful extraction machine, this is the important part as carpets that are left too wet will go mouldy, shrink and there could be browning from the carpets backing. We have the appropriate machines to carry out this method of carpet cleaning. All our carpet cleaners are insured and cover a wide area.

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